![]() The workshop team consists of Oleg and Sergey Petrov and Andrei Patlin and Andrey Makaruk, who have 20 years of experience in leatherwork. Just imagine the British Empire guarded by a legion of spacemen, under the not-so-evil emperor, Queen Victoria (always dressed in black, mind you).īob Basset is the name of a workshop in the Ukraine that makes unique, high-quality steampunk art, mainly consisting of masks, but also including sculptures and armor. This next piece, the only one in a lighter leather tone, seems to provide evidence that stormtroopers existed even in the Victorian age. The trunk, for example, was once a commercial vacuum cleaner hose that Banwell covered in lambskin wrapped with waxed thread. Each detail has been painstakingly put together from repurposed, recycled materials. ![]() If an elephant were ever in need of a gas mask, it could wear this amazing creation, called Pachydermos. In any case, this reddish brown and gray creation is supremely stylish. Sentinel is a creation that combines a fire helmet, a gas mask and a collar that seems to be modeled on a medieval design. Ukrainian workshop Bob Basset and American leatherwork artist Tom Banwell are masters when it comes to repurposing unwanted materials and recycling them into steampunk works of art! There’s not much that embodies the ideas of steampunk more than these steampunk gas masks - creations of leather, resin, brass and copper that, in an eerie and freakish way, show our fear of a dystopian future disaster. Wells, or, from a more modern perspective, BioShock and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Think of the works of Jules Verne and H.G. At the intersection of futurism and romance, steampunk marries Victorian steam power with science fiction technology.
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