An enjoyable surprise at LEDucation last week was the Avenue Lighting booth. This company has slowly transformed over the past 10 years from a basic residential lighting manufacturer into an innovative, decorative, specification-grade lighting manufacturer.
Perhaps the most startling find was their Monaco Collection. This collection of pendants have medium-based sockets, but are delivered with oversized smoky filament lamps. But these aren’t like any filament lamps you’ve ever seen. The filament is permanently electrically connected at one end coming out of a downlight source. The filament has a tiny magnet at the tip of the other end of the filament, and when turned base up, the filament magnetically connects to another magnet at the bottom of the lamp, with a little help from gravity.
At the booth, President Chris Titizian demonstrated turning the lamp sideways and bumping it hard enough to disconnect the magnetically connected end. Then he would turn the lamp base up to have the magnetically tipped filament reconnect with the magnet at the bottom of the lamp. See the images above and below.
Ave Lighting (as it is abbreviated) offers some different shapes and multiples of the pendants in larger Monaco models. All shown below.
Top image: Ave Lighting, Monaco Collection. Photo by David Shiller
Image: Avenue Lighting
Image: Avenue Lighting
Image: Photo by David Shiller
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