The ArchLIGHT Summit hosted by Dallas Market Center late final month was the most important and most profitable version of the present, DMC reported. Attendance elevated practically 10% over final 12 months, with robust participation from architects, specifiers, lighting designers and businesses, amongst others, and featured a sold-out exhibit ground.
Greater than a dozen CEU periods drew robust attendance and featured business leaders corresponding to Chip Israel and Steven Rosen and well timed matters corresponding to synthetic intelligence and the influence on design follow.
On the present ground, the interactive Shade Visualization show, developed in collaboration with College of North Texas inside design college students and Materials Financial institution, showcased how lighting, offered by Pure Edge Lighting, dramatically modifications the notion of colours and supplies throughout hospitality, residential, workplace and healthcare functions.
There have been additionally many networking and social alternatives together with the WILD (Girls in Lighting + Design) Welcome Social gathering, Casambi Opening Evening Glad Hour, and Eurofase “Final Name Y’all” Closing Social gathering which celebrated The Illuminating Engineering Society’s tenth anniversary of TM-30 (an improved shade metric), recognition of College of North Texas’s adoption of the AWARE mild artwork set up from the 2023 Summit, and the primary official occasion for the newly shaped Texas chapter of the Worldwide Affiliation of Lighting Designers (IALD).
The subsequent ArchLIGHT Summit is Sept. 15–16, 2026.
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Kalco Lighting will host a fireplace chat at Excessive Level Market with inside designers Jennifer Farrell and Christopher Grubb about their challenge partnership within the South of France. The I.C.E. Home (it’s quick for Interconnected Changeable Environments) is Farrell’s world vacation spot showhouse expertise. Making a Lighting Journey: Storytelling By Lighting Design at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 26, in IHFC, H232, will present a primary take a look at Kalco’s clever lighting takeover at Extension Home, one of many three dwelling environments at I.C.E. Home.
“I’ve all the time been enthusiastic about lighting, and at I.C.E. Home, we’re telling an ancient-meets fashionable story with lighting as our narrator,” stated Farrell. “This collaboration with Kalco is extremely particular as a result of it’s not only a partnership – it is going to grow to be a full realization of a showhouse design imaginative and prescient that I’ve been growing for many years, and Kalco will likely be entrance and heart, as we create a lighting journey collectively.”
Attendees will even study extra in regards to the inspiration behind the customized sculptural lightwork designed by Grubb for Kalco, which would be the principal point of interest in Middle Home, the most important of the three environments.
“This assertion mild fixture will draw inspiration from the area, incorporating glass and shapes to enrich architectural particulars whereas including some California sensibility,” Grubb stated. “Jennifer’s present houses all the time demand the best from all business sectors, and the I.C.E. Home isn’t any exception. It emphasizes hand craftsmanship, and Kalco’s high quality supplies and limitless handmade customized capabilities are good for this distinctive house.”
Occasion attendees can win a free Journey for Two to France for the I.C.E. Home VIP Reveal Social gathering, slated for Fall 2026. Following the discuss and giveaway announcement, company are invited to take pleasure in hors d’oeuvres and cocktails within the Kalco showroom.
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Elegant Dwelling, which not too long ago rebranded itself from Elegant Artwork, is increasing into the lamp class with the debut of a 58-SKU assortment at Excessive Level Market this month. The gathering spans a variety of kinds and value factors with the typical retail round $64.95.
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Bulbrite is introducing a brand new model, Kibün by Bulbrite, that may give attention to cordless lighting. Its Elevated Traditional Assortment will function the Tripod cordless lamp which has a white, oval-shaped glass prime poised on a refined steel tripod body in both a black or brushed brass end. It has 8+ hours of battery life and three customizable brightness ranges.
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Hudson Valley Lighting Group not too long ago participated within the 2025 Real Simple Home. A Manhattan penthouse was reworked by six designers. Within the kitchen and eating house, designer Jason Saft featured Corbett’s Emerald Chandelier. Noz Nozawa used Hudson Valley Lighting’s Gareth rechargeable lamps on the outside terrace. Toronto-based designer Alexandra Gater created a heat inviting den with a fake mantel, vintage rug-inspired wallpaper and velvet furnishings, together with Mitzi’s Alexa sconce and Onda chandelier. And, Mandy Cheng featured lighting from her Mitzi assortment within the research and visitor room which was outfitted with a placing checkerboard wall of mirrors and toile wallpaper.