Anonymous London design duo City Girls creates one-off lighting out of reclaimed lace, coat hangers and scale models scavenged from eBay, Facebook Marketplace and the side of the road.

City Girls (stylised as city.girls.xp) is the studio and alias of two unnamed artists, who started making lamps together two years ago after bonding over a shared love of old knickknacks.

The north London duo are making a name for themselves by crafting one-of-a-kind pieces out of everything from discarded sequins to chains and feathers sourced second-hand on the internet or in real life, which at one point left them rooting through the debris of a smashed-up toy on the street.

Once each lamp is complete, it is affectionately named something like Pamela, Jean or Allegra, to give it a distinct identity.

Among the duo's growing collection is Zoe, a tall floor lamp characterised by a gridded metal frame wrapped in old jersey fabric, and embellished with goose feathers extracted from a hat.

Sabine, the pair's first working lamp, features a base crafted out of a fragment of an old chrome chair, topped with a translucent shade made of a fibreglass model boat.

Lola and Nina are a pair of boxy lamps cloaked with Glomesh sequins, a material that was also draped over the metallic Raquel.

City Girls has previously described the process of cobbling together its lighting as akin to the act of getting dressed, throwing together a mismatched outfit.

This visual style is especially clear in curving Virginia, made from old metal chair legs and crowned with a swan-like arched green head.

The duo also has a penchant for objects that show signs of fabrication through welds and seams, or anything else that nods to their former purpose.

City Girls named themselves after a Victorian novel by radical author Margaret Harkness called A City Girl, which details vivid descriptions of 1880s London streets.

The studio has been steadily growing its presence in the UK capital.

Over the summer, local interior designer Jermaine Gallacher curated the exhibition Ten Lamps by City Girls at the Ragged School, London Bridge.

During this month's London Design Festival, a wealth of other collectible design was on display in various city-wide exhibitions.

Among them was the second-ever Studio Iron show in South Kensington, curated by artist Isamaya Ffrench and featuring pieces by designers including Andu Masebo, Barnaby Lewis and Jane Wright.

The photography is courtesy of City Girls.