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Lure Atlanta
My friend Bill Peace and I had a tasty lunch at Atlanta’s South City Kitchen. When we were done, Peace took me for a preview of Lure, just down the block, a new restaurant he designed which was opening that … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlanta, Bill Peace, David Calligeros, Lure Atlanta
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Colonial Williamsburg
My family and I finally made it out of the foundry and later that evening got ourselves to Colonial Williamsburg. Site of much traditional craft, in action, more than on display, and in period costume to boot. I had to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruton Parish Church, Colonial Williamsburg
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Lights of Marrakech
I am in Morocco this week for the Design Leadership Summit, and we created a special mobile guide to showcase the lighting of Marrakech for the occasion. Lights of Marrakech is my personal and thoroughly non-comprehensive selection of a few … Continue reading
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Tagged David Calligeros, decorative arts terms, Design Leadership Summit, lights of Marrakech, Marrakech
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The World’s Most Dangerous Christmas Lights – Late Holiday Edition
My neighbor is in the process of cleaning out his family house, having just sold it, and in the pile of junk out for the trash was this tangle of wires and sockets. Of course it caught my pathologically lighting-attuned … Continue reading
Pier Lights in Bel Air
Tarryn Brodkin, from our Los Angeles showroom, and I went to see a project William Hefner is designing in Bel Air the other day. It’s a jaw-dropping affair of many, many square feet and acres of tawny limestone. We reviewed … Continue reading
A group of original Sterling Bronze Company photos
A Florida family with a small group of photographs of lighting fixtures from the Sterling Bronze Co. found us online figuring we would have an interest in them. Indeed we did. I bought them and they arrived in the mail … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Deco, Sterling Bronze Company
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ICAA NYC Holiday Cocktails & Auction
The Racquet and Tennis Club building on Park Avenue, designed by Charles McKim of McKim, Mead, and White, happens to be lit by tons of E. F. Caldwell Co. fixtures… a source of constant pleasant distraction for me. The Racquet and Tennis … Continue reading