Going Somewhere? Lighting Links
These are links to firms and manufacturers associated with luminaires.
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A – G
Acuity Brands - (14) manufacturers including Lithonia, Antique Street Lamps, Gotham, Holophane, Juno, Mark Architectural Lighting, Peerless, and more
Architectural Area Lighting - Swanky outdoor lighting
Architectural Cathode Lighting - Cold cathode lighting products along with a few specialty flourescent and neon fixtures
AstraLite - Emergency and exit lighting
Beacon Products - A division of Hubbell with LED bollards and street lighting
BEGA - Swanky outdoor LED wall packs, cylinders, flood lights, bollards, and pole lighting
Bodine EM Ballasts - Emergency ballasts and inverters. Now owned by Philips
Brownlee Lighting - A wide variety of indoor and outdoor LED, fluorescent, and HID products generally considered as high value or residential quality
Bruck Lighting - A lot of specialty cable mounted tracks, pendants, and low voltage fixtures
CBMC Lighting Solutions - One of those places that don't sell products - just solutions. Interior and site lighting
Celestial Lighting - Strip lights, tape lights, string lights, marquee lights, mirror lights, festoon lights, and rope lights
Columbia Lighting - High quality indoor commercial lighting products. Part of the Hubbell family of products
Contrast Lighting - This Canadian manufacturer is my favorite line of recessed LED and MR16 products for spotlighting art and signs on walls
Cooper Industries - Once an easy-to-use web site, this has now been taken over by Eaton and turned into a complex quagmire where it's nearly impossible to find what you need. They offer Corelite, Fail-Safe, Halo, Invue, IRiS, Lumark, McGraw-Edison, Metalux, Neo-Ray, Portfolio, Shaper, Sure-lites, and others
Craftmade - My favorite brand of ceiling fans. They also have interior & exterior lighting, vents, and chimes
Cree (Ruud) Lighting - A wide variety of indoor and outdoor LED lighting products. Now they've acquired the popular Ruud Lighting and apparently just threw away the brand recognition of Ruud
Delux Custom Lighting - Swanky hanging bowl fixtures, pendants, surface mount, and sconces
Dual-Lite - Emergency and exit luminaries
Duray Lighting - Yet another place that doesn't sell products; only "solutions". Standard fluorescent and LED luminaries
E-Conolight - Like the name says, these are low cost indoor and outdoor luminaries. Most are LED
Elliptipar - Now called "The Lighting Quotient", Elliptipar is known for their elegant wall mounted up lighting products
Eureka Lighting - Very modern style indoor and outdoor lighting
Everlast Lighting - Highbay, exterior, and interior luminaries. Tending toward an industrial style
Focal Point - Downlighting, recessed, linear, and specialty luminaries with a very modern style
GE Lighting - A wide variety of indoor, outdoor, hazardous, signage, lamps, and controls
G Lighting - Pendants, surface mounts, and indoor & outdoor sconces
Glowble Lighting - Seemingly bullet-proof industrial LED lighting products made in Alabama
H – M
Hampton Bay - A popular consumer-grade ceiling fan. The URL will redirect to an area within the Home Depot website
Holophane - Indoor, outdoor, and signage luminaries
Hubbell Lighting - A surprisingly easy to navigate site featuring (20) manufacturers including Architectural Area Lighting, Columbia Lighting, Dual-Lite, Hubbell, Kim, Kurt Versen, Litecontrol, Progress Lighting, and others
Hunter Fans - Well made ceiling fans of nearly every style there is
Interlux - Luminaries from ALM, Filix, Linea Light, Sattler, Vice, and Whitegoods
Intermatic - Undoubtedly the world's most popular maker of lighting controls such as time clocks, photocells, and sensors
Juno Lighting - A popular maker of recessed and trac lighting. The URL brings you to their area within Acuity Brands
Kichler - A bit of everything here; chandeliers, pendants, bathroom lighting, ceiling fans, surface mount, sconces, outdoor, landscape lighting, tape luminaries, and under cabinet lighting
Kim Lighting - Popular high-quality outdoor and landscape luminaries. Also part of the Hubbell Lighting family of products
Kurt Versen - Now part of the Hubbell group, this line has recessed downlighting and wall wash fixtures with a clean modern style
LBL Lighting - One of a kind modern style luminaries such as chandeliers, suspended linear, pendants, bathroom, sconces, tracks, and a few outdoor sconces
Ledalite - A Philips brand company featuring linear LED and fluorescent luminaries
LEDalux - All LED luminaries as the name implies. Mainly industrial outdoor fixtures like floods, wall packs, and parking garage type but a few indoor and accent types too
Litelab - Sleek looking luminaries for museums, retail, and architectural locations
Lithonia - My favorite manufacturer to specify on projects. Why? It's not because they have a large variety (which they do) or because they are durable commercial fixtures (which they are). It's because they are easy to specify and have foolproof cut sheets that allow you to cover all of your bases. There's never a surprise waiting for you when you spec Lithonia fixtures. Lithonia is the anchor for the Acuity Brands line of manufacturers
Louis Poulsen - A line of modern style luminaries in recessed, surface, suspended, pendant, wall, floor, and table top. Many are one-of-a-kind creations that you won't see elsewhere
LSI Industries - Mainly known for their clean looking outdoor area lighting, LSI offers indoor, outdoor, landscape, and sports illumination products
Lumenpulse - Curious looking spots, pendants, wall, and cove lighting. I've used their products for theater lighting
Lumos - They make some standard linear and circle luminaries but their main thrust are custom designed fixtures
Lumux - Primarily outdoor ballards, step lights, wall packs, and floods
Lutron - Perhaps the most popular of all lighting controls manufacturer
Magnaray - This Florida based company primarily makes outdoor lighting products for landscape, effect, parking lots, patio, security, signs, and sports
Manning Lighting - Lighting products for churches, architectural, and an interesting line of edge-lit luminescent blade luminaires
Medical Illumination - You guessed it; specialized luminaires for vets and medical facilities such as surgeries and exam rooms
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Nicor - This company in New Mexico offers downlights, undercabinet, utility, troffers, high/low bay, vapor tight, surface, track, emergency, exit, sconce, and wall packs
Nora Lighting - This California manufacturer has cylinders, troffers, edge-lit panels, linear, recessed, track, rail, under cabinet, pendant, accent, retail, multiple head directionals, emergency, and exit fixtures
OCL (Original Cast Lighting) - Very upscale modern and custom luminaires including a few outdoor sconces
PAL (Precision Architectural Lighting) - A well made and attractive but fairly limited line of mainly linear luminaires
Philips - An enormous line of products including manufacturers such as Chloride, Day-Brite, Gardco, Hadco, Ledalite, Lightolier, Stonco, and more
Prescolite - Best known for their recessed can luminaires, Prescolite makes a wide variety of products including a few outdoor surface fixtures. Now a Hubbell brand company
Prima - A nice line up of high end display, pendant, track, sconce, linear, and recessed luminaires
Progress Lighting - My favorite line of residential grade luminaries and a main line found at Home Depot. Always check their site before specifying these on a job because models go obsolete pretty quickly at times
Rosco - Specializing in stage, theater, and architectural lighting Rosco has soft, wash, and accent luminaires
RAB Lighting - In operation since 1946, this New Jersey manufacturer offers a wide variety of products including floodlights, downlights, area lights, panels, wallpacks, multi-heads, high bays, troffers, surface, vaporproof, decorative, landscape, and more
RTG Lighting - A trusted manufacturer but I find their current web site very difficult to navigate. You're better off just downloading their PDF catalog
SeaGull Lighting - A popular brand for residential luminaires often found at Home Depots
SPI Lighting - Probably best known for their exterior line, SPI also offers architectural and decorative fixtures
StoneLight - I've found this Florida company to be a very responsive supplier of illuminated concrete bollards
Sylvania Lamps - Your best source for lamps and information about lamps, Sylvania also offers some luminaires
Tech Lighting - Modern style line of indoor and outdoor luminaires
Tenmat - Need to place a luminaire in a fire-rated ceiling or wall? Tenmat has you covered
Thomas Lighting - A popular line of inexpensive residential grade fixtures
Tork Lighting Controls - Now owned by NSI Industries, Tork has time clocks, photo cells, and occupancy sensors
Valmont - Headquartered in Omaha, NE, Valmont is known world wide for their poles but they also offer luminaires to go on them
Victor Illuminating - Traditional style bowls, pendants, ceiling mounts, and sconces
VISA Lighting - Modern style indoor and outdoor lighting. Don't leave home without them
Volume Lighting - Recessed cans, chandeliers, pendants, ceiling, bath, sconce, tracks, step lights, and undercabinet
WattStopper - A highly respected manufacturer of lighting controls now found on the nearly impossible to navigate Legrand web site
Westinghouse - Lamps, decorative, ceiling fans, solar, and outdoor luminaires
Williams - H.E.Williams is a popular maker of residential grade indoor and outdoor luminaires