A street corner, desk-sized.
A black cast-iron-style lamp post, 11.8 in from kerb to finial, standing at the back of its own 6.7 × 4.7 in pavement.
Victorian lamp-post headphone stand
A gas-lamp street corner for your desk. The arm holds your headphones, the pavement holds your keys.
The pavement is a tray.
Cream paving slabs sit 0.47 in below a dark-oak kerb, so keys, coins and an earbud case stay where you drop them.
Built like the real thing.
A two-tier faceted plinth and a torus, a fluted shaft that tapers past two rings, a knuckle for the arm, then a panelled head with two hipped roofs and an onion finial.
A steel spine.
One steel rod runs up the whole post into a nut in the head and clamps every tier together. Two large steel washers sunk in the tray floor weigh the corner down.
The arm takes the band.
The flat swan-necked arm reaches 3.2 in out from the post. Your headband lies on its 0.6 in saddle, and the shepherd's-crook curl stops it sliding off.
Hang them up.
The band rests 9.2 in above the desk and the cups hang either side of the tray. Shown with a pair of over-ears for scale; headphones not included.
Up close
It stands 11.8 in tall on a 6.7 × 4.7 in footprint, small enough for the corner of a desk, a hallway table or a shelf. The headband rests 9.2 in up, so the ear cups hang clear of the tray on either side.
Every part of a Victorian lamp post, at desk height.
The post is built from the parts of a Victorian street lamp, in order from the pavement up. Pick a part to find it on the lamp.
An onion finial tops the lamp, above the two roofs of the head.
A panelled capital head under two stacked hipped roofs. The steel rod ends in a nut inside it.
The arm ends in a shepherd's-crook curl. It is the stop that keeps a headband from sliding off, and the hook the lantern hangs from.
A flat swan-necked arm leaves the post at the knuckle and reaches 3.2 in out, with a 0.6 in saddle for the band.
A small amber lantern, 2.8 in tall, hangs from the crook on a real 3 mm ring, with a pendant drop beneath. It is unlit: there is no bulb and nothing to plug in.
A fluted shaft that tapers as it climbs, banded by two rings, with the steel rod running up its middle.
A two-tier faceted plinth with a torus moulding above it, standing straight on the slabs.
The pavement: cream slabs 0.47 in below a dark-oak kerb, with two steel washers sunk in its floor as ballast.
Victorian lamp-post headphone stand
A gas-lamp street corner for the desk, in black, amber, cream and dark oak.
One lamp post on one pavement.
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- lamp post: faceted plinth, fluted shaft, panelled head and onion finial
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- swan-neck arm with a shepherd's-crook curl
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- amber lantern with its pendant drop, on a 3 mm ring
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- paving-slab tray with a dark-oak kerb
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- steel rod through the post, with a nut at each end
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- steel washers sunk in the tray floor as ballast
- Size
- 6.7 × 4.7 × 11.8 in (W × D × H)
- Headband rest
- 0.6 in saddle, 9.2 in above the desk
- Arm reach
- 3.2 in from the post
- Tray
- 6.7 × 4.7 in, slabs 0.47 in below a 0.9 in kerb
- Lantern
- 2.8 in tall, unlit
- Inside
- steel rod up the post, steel ballast in the tray
- Colours
- black post and arm, amber lantern, cream slabs, dark-oak kerb
Good to know
Will it hold my over-ear headphones?
The headband lies on a 0.6 in saddle at the end of the arm, 9.2 in above the desk, and the shepherd's-crook curl stops it sliding off. The ear cups hang on either side of the tray.
What keeps it from tipping?
One steel rod runs up the whole post into a nut in the head and clamps it together, and two large steel washers sunk in the tray floor add weight to the base.
Does the lantern light up?
No. The amber lantern is unlit: there is no bulb, no battery and no cable anywhere on the stand.
What fits in the tray?
The tray is 6.7 × 4.7 in with the slabs 0.47 in below the kerb, room for keys, coins and an earbud case around the foot of the post.
Are headphones included?
No. The headphones in the photos and the film are there to show the fit and the size.