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Sensible Chic

Published September 17th, 2008

Have you ever seen the show on HGTV Sensible Chic?  Well the story line takes an expensive “inspiration room” from a notable designer and attempts to recreate the design on a much more “sensible” budget, usually around $2,000. 
HGTV’s web site describes the show this way: Join HGTV for its decorating adventure, Sensible Chic, with each […]

Swank Lighting Welcomes Our First Retailer

Published August 22nd, 2008

We’re happy to announce that Swank Lighting’s new line of contemporary lamps are now being sold at AREAin Austin, Texas.
We’ve posted here about our new Joe Cariatiline of hand blown glass lamps and our recycled glass lamps ‘Rock Candy’.  Now we have started rolling these products out to fine home furnishings stores.  Look for them […]

Contemporary Lighting from the Swank Studio

Published August 17th, 2008

As many of you know, we at Swank are obsessed with decorative lighting.  When we started Swank Lighting a few years back we were intending to simply sell rebuilt vintage lamps and specifically our large supply of Murano lamps.  It was a semi retirement kind of business.  We started on eBay and eventually moved from the […]

Swank Lighting’s Collaboration with Joe Cariati (update)

Published July 24th, 2008

We posted an update showing these photos of our new Joe Cariati line of lamps a week ago.  Unfortunately when our server crashed yesterday, all data entered post July 13th was lost.
So here it is again.
Please check back often for regular updates as more product comes out of our studio.
P.S. We were very excited to […]