Lighting Report: Kuzco hires fan executive; bespoke lighting debuts across the country
Discover what's new from RTO lighting, Hennepin Made, Uplight Group, Tracy Glover Studio and Cameron Design House.
This week we have one lighting personnel announcement and lots of new bespoke lighting:
Kuzco Group has appointed former Minka Group exec William Cox as its new director of fan sales. This hire underscores Kuzco’s commitment to expanding its footprint in the ceiling fan category. Cox served as vice president of sales and marketing at Minka for the past eight years, where he focused on the AIRE brand. His background spans showroom, e-commerce and commercial sales channels, Kuzco said.
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Philadelphia-based lighting studio RTO Lighting will unveil a new collection from designer Robert Ogden at What’s New What’s Next, which takes place in New York today at the 200 Lex building. RTO Lighting will be in the FAIR showroom.
Minneapolis-based Hennepin Made, an artisan lighting brand founded in 2011, has introduced wall sconces and an elongated pendant to its Lacuna Collection of hand-sculpted glass lighting fixtures.
Uplight Group, a Miami-based decorative lighting company founded in 2017, has partnered with Belgian lighting studio Hind Rabii and Israeli designer Ariel Zuckerman to bring their exclusive new collections to the U.S. These two collections expand Uplight’s carefully selected group of multinational lighting designers, including Pilke Lights (Finland), Octavio Amado (France) and others. The brand’s target market is lighting specifiers (interior designers and architects).
Tracy Glover Studio is bringing rain showers to life with the launch of its Rain Chandelier, which is comprised of a “shower” of 12-inch handblown glass cylinders in variegated ombre patterns. The color is applied in varying densities to evoke the way rain falls in sheets.
L.A. interior design showroom Una Malan has added London-based lighting design studio Cameron Design House to its showroom lineup. The Una Malan showroom will feature four collections of bespoke fixtures from Cameron Design House.
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