What is a Lighting Manufacturers' Representative?

This is a good definition by our folks at Sesco Lighting:

Some manufacturers choose not to employ their own sales force. Instead they contract exclusively, in certain geographic areas, with reps who are paid a commission when they are successful in selling the manufacturer's product. A manufacturers' rep may represent many companies, usually does limited invoicing and carries little or no accounts receivable. The use of manufacturers' reps in the lighting industry is the norm rather than the exception. Shad Asebrook SAsebrook@SescoLighting.com 615-830-1655 The Delray Lighting "Cylindro" at Centric Architecture in Nashville. Link to Cylindro Cut Sheet

Wattstopper Strategies

WattStopper Intelligent Building Strategies 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwezbxJ8ZGc

Outdoor LED Cable Lighting from Sistemalux

This is a neat fixture from Sistemalux/Igguzini that architects and landscape architects may find interesting.  I would love to see this on a streetscape here in Nashville.

Sesco Nashville Represents Borden Lighting

Sesco Lighting, Nashville has agreed to represent Borden Lighting.  This is a welcome addition.

From the Borden website:

http://www.bordenlighting.com/who.html

WHO WE ARE
Introducing Borden Lighting: a company created to serve the design community with lighting fixtures that exhibit the three most important issues in lighting today: fine DESIGN, true SUSTAINABILITY and superior VALUE.

Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Borden Lighting is a new company with a long history. The company's founder and CEO, architect Randy Borden, is well known in the lighting community from his more than 20 years as president of Shaper Lighting. The new company itself is built upon the foundation of Nova Industries, maker of decorative and custom lighting, as well as Honeylite™ glare control products, for nearly half a century.

PRODUCTS

Borden Lighting offers three families of specification-grade, made-to-order products:

Architectural Lighting: A complete line of decorative surface mounted fixtures for ceiling, pendant, interior and exterior wall applications. Our architectural based designs are tasteful clean and elegant in their simplicity. Table and Floor Lamps: What is really a new product category: Specification-grade architectural table and floor lamps. Honeylite™ Louvers: Our popular family of glare control products engineered for seamless integration with a wide variety of lamp sources and fixtures.

Fox Theatre, Featured Installation

Color Kinetics sent the following to me as a featured installation.  This is the Fox Theatre in St. Louis. 

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The Fox Theatre was a movie palace built in 1929 by movie pioneer William Fox as a showcase for the films of the Fox Film Corporation. The theatre, also known as "The Fabulous Fox," was one of five Fox theatres whose other locations included Brooklyn, Atlanta, Detroit and San Francisco. Today the theatre has a full calendar of live entertainment from rock concerts to comedy shows to Broadway musicals.

The theatre was originally designed by architect C. Howard Crane, who used a unique blend of Asian decorative motifs to create a magnificently ornate interior which featured a 5,280-pound chandelier and gilded velvet throne chairs. Fox's wife, Eve Leo, also added to the eclectic decor by displaying furnishings, paintings, and sculptures that she found on her travels overseas. The Fox Theatre enjoyed a few prosperous years but then fell into decline and closed its doors in 1978. However, the theatre was bought in 1981, underwent a $3 million restoration, and opened for business again in 1982.

During the summer of 2011, the theatre was renovated again. The $2 million restoration's sustainability initiatives included installing an updated HVAC system and replacing the theatre's incandescent cove lighting with an LED lighting system. Fox Theatre worked with Lighting Representatives, Inc. to find an LED replacement which would allow them to retain existing light levels and quality of light and which would work seamlessly with their current dimming system. Lighting Representatives recommended Philips Color Kinetics eW Cove QLX Powercore in 2700 K. The LED lighting solution was easily installed into the steel coves, replacing 2,200 incandescent lamps. The LED lighting solution is expected to reduce the theatre's energy consumption by 85 percent, and also significantly reduce lighting maintenance costs.

http://www.colorkinetics.com/

Mirko Pasta in Nashville

Mirko Pasta was designed by MP&E Engineering and the general lighting was accomplished by a Liton Lighting LED track system. Check it out if you are in the area.


1520 Demonbreun Avenue 
Nashville, TN 37203




http://www.liton.com/webcatalog/Brochures/EcoTrack_web.pdf

Shad Asebrook
615-830-1655

Auditorium Lighting

The below is a blurb from Color Kinetics concerning color changing auditorium lighting.

The influence of Elvis' colorful and dramatic life can be felt from the moment the audience enters the lobby for Viva ELVIS™. The lighting for the entrance area foreshadows the opulent experience that awaits them inside the theatre. 

iColor Cove QLX Powercore color-changing LED fixtures illuminate the entry lobby's curvilinear glass ceiling, becoming more vivid as "curtain time" approaches. The 150 ft (45.7 m) long glass wall of the inner lobby area features 3,600 square feet (334.5 m2) of lenticular lenses behind fluted glass panels. This "Diamond Wall" is brought to resplendent life with 357 iColor Cove MX Powercore and ColorBlast Powercore fixtures. All lighting effects are synchronized, and one hour before the show the lobby is ablaze in color and movement. 

This theme of rich color and vibrant movement is carried into the auditorium. Color-changing, high-intensity LED fixtures in the side wall openings illuminate luxurious draperies. Wall lighting is restrained before the show begins, then the side walls burst into color, drawing the audience into the event. These illuminated walls energize the beginning of the show and then sequence subtly to more static moods throughout the performance