Anglepoise

Paul Smith Anglepoise Type 75 desk lamp, from a selection at Utilitydesign.co.uk

I've been yelled at, given impossible deadlines and watched a friend dodge an anglepoise lamp hurled across the room.

I also worked as a machine press operator at a dilapidated sheet metal factory in South Wales where each day I churned out thousands of the components for anglepoise desk lamps.

As Dale-Jones junior, an affable and endearing Welshman, welcomed us all to his show (playing some superb soul, we can only hope he makes his setlist available online), he is sat behind a large desk, mismatching anglepoise lamps at either end, a mixing desk, laptop and assortment of pages.

Anglepoise maxi pendant; Dual range cooker; Jersey pottery fruits de mer <Bmackerel oval dish, John Lewis, tel: 0845 604 9049, www.johnlewis.com

Metal legs on a coffee table or sofa are ideal for this look, as is an anglepoise lamp.

Metal legs on a coffee table or sofa are perfect for this look, as is an anglepoise lamp.

George Carwardine anglepoise floor lamp, PS89.99, Value

George Carwardine anglepoise floor lamp, PS89.99, Value Lights "The house, like its owner, could do with a bit of a makeover," Andrea McLean

Other notable projects featured include the manufacturing of the top and bottom caps for the Olympic torch, Anglepoise lighting, and custom-made timber shepherd huts for 'glamping'.

High street companies will naturally piggy back trends and create their own, more reasonable versions of designer items, the Anglepoise Giant1227 floor lamp being one of them.

Another section will profile a single iconic design - the Anglepoise lamp - telling how an experiment by a car engineer with an obsession with springs resulted in an invention that was to become one of the most copied, parodied and collected in the history of design.