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That person may be brilliant, too, but this woman was African-American and if I heard her name, I'd know it, but that's not her.

I worked with Alfredo, the owner of Atmosphere Lighting in Chicago, to replace my outdated sconces and track lighting with a low-voltage suspension system. If you are willing to wait 10-12 weeks for delivery, they have access to all the major lighting companies (Flos, Artemide, etc., etc.,) at decent prices. Jose does great installation work, too!
www.atmospherelight.com/main.html

Classic Lighting Emporium in Philadelphia
http://www.classic-lighting.com

They have lighting from every era and parts to fix anything. They are super helpful with questions big & small. The place is a fantastic resource for ideas. And finally, years ago when I lived down the street from them, 2 guys from the store helped me carry back to my building a glass door bookcase I trash picked.

Online lighting (and local if you're in Portland, which I'm not): REJUVENATION!!!!

(rejuvenation dot com)

Love em! Great products, fantastic customer service.

Surprisingly, Lightforms on 8th Avenue has been a great asset. One of their sales people keyed into exactly what we were looking for. Prices are now competitive with discount/online resources. There's still a few workers there who could use a course in customer service, but on the whole they have been a help. Other than that, I often just go straight to the source: Artemide, FLOS, etc.

On-Line: Y Lighting!

Ikea has great modern lighting for great prices. They look really stylish and are the best lighting bargain around

May I recommend Schoolhouse Electric of Portland with a showroom on Vestry street in Tribeca. They revive deco and turn-of-the-century lighting fixtures with a modern sensibility and real attention to detail.

My co-op just got great hallway lights from them -we picked the handpainted green and white diamond-shaped ones to go with our new diamond-patterned green and pale-yellow carpet. Everyone was impressed: "You found lights that match the carpet." And the handpainted detail really shows up if you're ever close (which they are in my building as the stairs go right by the ceiling fixtures).

They have about a bezillion shades and fixtures, all for overhead or sconce lights. There are a lot of nice table lamps and floorlamps out there, but for overhead lighting other than halogens most fixtures suck (check out the Bowery if you want to see the truly tacky in all its hideousness).

Also service was prompt and courteous. The only thing is that if you want the handpainted ones, you've got to wait for the painting, which can up to eight weeks.

I was really surprised and delighted to see many great lighting fixtures for all purposes at Gracious Home on the UWS in the lowest floor. They have a huge selection, with fixtures that are really cool, or traditional, whatever one wants.

Online shopping:
Best: www.lightology.com
www.lightinguniverse.com
www.richardlighting.com
www.surrounding.com

In NYC:
Best: Lightforms on 8th
The lighting store on 60th & 2nd.
Lighitng By Gregory
For the DIY, www.grandbrass.com in Brooklyn

Maybe too obvious to mention, but my fav online sources would be www.restorationhardware.com (they were just having a sale)and www.crateandbarrel.com

Both offer decent quality (better in RH) and good selection. But I'm sure you all new that already...

Lee Studio on 57th btwn broadway and 7th in Manhattan. They have hundreds of wall and ceiling fixtures and standing lamps. It is on the high end side, however. If you're looking for some basic track lighting, you could do worse than home depot.

Ikea is great for alot of lighting needs, and I used YLighting online after the raves on this site. They are both great.

I got my most beautiful stuff at flea markets/junk sales and at Uplift Lighting on Hudson St in the West Village -- they had gorgeous old factory shades, and deco deco deco.
I think they are no longer there - recent development? Anybody know what happened to them?

lee studio for wide selection, artemide in soho, ingo maurer's shop in soho for art as lighting, filiments on 13th st,

I see TeoNYC's LightForms on 8th and raise him a LightForms on Amsterdam.

Also like phil's mention of Lee's, and considering they are high-end (and the staff is always hopelessly and dramatically engulfed in paperwork), their prices are really good for the items they offer.

I also like the lighting department of The Terence Conran Shop.

Lee's Studio on 57th street. I wandered around NY and the internet looking for clean-lined modern lighting and ended up getting everything from them. Helpful with problems and returns. Lightforms in Chelsea also had nice stuff but smaller and a bit pricier. Found the Bowery places mostly a waste of time.

Urban Archaeology
143 Franklin St., New York, NY 10013

Reproduction and salvage lighting here. Some is breathtaking.

I liked my experience with rejuvenation.com. They have an 800 number, and I was on the phone with their Chris guy, and he walked me through the various things on their website and we created a custom scone for my bathroom, which you can see in my flickr thing, or on their site, under "customer installatioins" (or something like that).

Lightforms on Amsterdam has this one woman who is brilliant, according to a friend of mine who loves doing business there.

If you want ACTUAL vintage, go to eBay, and then have them re-wired at Lexington Hardware on Lexington a block or so above Bloomingdale's, and then you'll be all safe and sound and newly wired, but still old-fashioned.

On line - Stonegate Designs.com (you can also order them from Lee Studio).
Charles Edwards.com has amazingly beautiful fixtures. They're in London, though.
Olystudio.com had nice lighting and I love their furniture too.
Robinsonsalter.com
Bellacor.com

In town - Call me crazy but I like the funky lamps at Pearl River. If I had the money I'd buy from Urban Archeology. Love their hanging pendants.
Remains Lighting - W. 28th and E. 59th
Simon Pearce - love their glass lamps

"I was really surprised and delighted to see many great lighting fixtures for all purposes at Gracious Home on the UWS in the lowest floor. They have a huge selection, with fixtures that are really cool, or traditional, whatever one wants. "

i have to really disagree. i was just there and the selection was extremely limited, and the colors ran from white to beige, very few sizes and very conservative styles. in fact the very nice clerk was saying how much they have been cutting back on stock in lighting.

i am desperately seeking floor lamps that are decorative rather than sleek -- i like judy's in ABC but i'm not in that tax bracket. the usual suspects (pottery barn, c&b etc) seem to have gone more conservative this season.

rasil--
What kind of lamps you looking for?

Can't personally vouch for their customer service or quality, and you need to see past their slightly schlocky catalogs, but consider Shades of Light and Lamps Plus...

http://shadesoflight.com/

http://lampsplus.com/

'the one woman who is brilliant' according to Curtis' friend is www.studio87.com to contact directly.

hi patrick, i'm looking for "pretty" floor lamps ... my ideal for my apt is to look like Renoir's Odalisque lives there.

i am fond of the the flowered one on the right here: http://www.judislampshades.com , but any place that doesn't list their prices is out of my range.

i will investigate your links, thanks.

rasil, i visited abc carpet and home in dumbo today for their store closing sale, there were many floor lamps with turned bases there. they didn't have the shades you want but the bases would work. deep discounts accross the board.

i will check it out! thanks.

After a visit to Thomas O'Brien's AERO Studios on Broome yesterday, I'd add AERO to the lighting list, since he has quite a collection of jewelry-like lighting (lamps scattered around the main floor, a complete collection of "hard-wire" options downstairs).

Especially lustworthy on the main floor(look away, ye vegetarians!) was the cream-colored cow skin cube lamp. I think I moaned when I saw it.

But this is NOT Thomas O'Brien for Target, so leave your checkbook at home and just bring your 401k. Although his brilliantly beautiful series of (small) geometric rock crystal lamps will leave you SOME money for retirement. ;)

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The lighting I have in my place is a mix of: higher-end pieces from my cousin's store PLUG (Melrose Ave, LA)--Alison Berger, Anta, etc; a LOT of IKEA; Nelson saucer lamp from Modernica; Crate and Barrel Jasper Morrison tablelamp knock-off; and a vintage spun-resin piece that I had re-wired for a more contemporary look. Bought the expensive pieces years back when I had more of a budget for expensive lighting--and still love the pieces. But I am always satisfied by my IKEA finds.

PS. Last night I bought EQ3's $179 knock-off of the Arco Lamp. After assembling the heavy and oversized 7-foot-high monstrosity by myself, I realized the scale was all wrong for the room. So I disassembled and returned it. Didn't work for me, but not a bad-looking lamp for the price. (Oh well, back to IKEA...)

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