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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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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
Posted in Antique and Vintage Lighting, Architecture
Tagged David Calligeros, decorative arts terms, Design Leadership Summit, lights of Marrakech, Marrakech
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More Treasures from the Neighbors’ Cache
Lewis Bowman was a New York based architect prominent in the first quarter of the 20th Century. He worked across the country, and in a variety of historic European styles, but is most notable for his use of Jacobean and … Continue reading
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Tagged David Calligeros, Jack Colgan, Lewis Bowman, Tudor Architecture
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The Carbon Footprint of Lighting
Last Thursday David, Tarryn and I attended a local meeting of the Illuminating Engineering Society of LA with friend and Los Angeles-based lighting designer Sean O’Connor. We met at the Proud Bird, a restaurant and home to a wild display … Continue reading
Carbon Footprint: From the Mines to My House, Towards a Lifecycle Analysis of Lighting – Lecture on January 19
David Calligeros presents Carbon Footprint: From the Mines to My House, Towards a Lifecycle Analysis of Lighting to the Illuminating Engineering Society of Los Angeles on January 19, 2012. David will address sustainable lighting, looking at it from the standpoint of a mercury … Continue reading
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
Spectacular Autumn Sunrise
I pulled into work a little before 7am the other day under an incredible luminous sky. So I grabbed the camera and bounded up to the roof to see what the skyline looked like and… was it impressive. When I … Continue reading
Posted in All Posts, Remains Lighting Factory
Tagged David Calligeros, Remains Lighting Brooklyn
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The San Francisco Antiques Show…and then some…
Alix, Valerie, and I spent a recent evening at the San Francisco Antiques Show Preview Party. This seems like the one night where all San Francisco’s design, architecture and antiques luminaries come out to celebrate. We had a great time … Continue reading