Illuminating: the making of Bert Frank's luxury lighting – in pictures

Robbie Llewellyn and Adam Yeats met by chance at a London lighting shop, and soon found they shared a vision. Llewellyn’s design ideas and Yeats’s industrial knowledge have been beautifully combined to create Bert Frank.

In Yeats’s presswork factory in Clerkenwell, London – a high-end metalwork enterprise that has been in existence for more than a century – old-school manufacturing techniques and cutting-edge technology are used to produce the brass and copper shapes layered with alabaster, marble, smoked glass and bone china, that have become Bert Frank’s hallmark design