ARTS finalists were announced yesterday, and they include several lighting manufacturers and retailers.
This year, the regions for home accents, lighting, retail, and sales representative have been updated. The West and Southwest have been combined, and the East region has expanded.
Lamp maker finalists are Arteriors, Couture Lamps and Home Furnishings, Pooky Lighting and Quoizel.
Lighting fixture finalists are Avenue Lighting, Ciana Varaluz, Fine Art Handcrafted Lighting, Hubbardton Forge, Lib & Co. Inc. and Visual Comfort & Co.
Finalist for lighting showrooms in the East include Capitol Lighting in Boca Raton, Fla., Charleston Lighting and Interiors in Charleston, S.C., Elements Lighting + Décor in Carle Place, N.Y., Lighting First in Bonita Springs, Fla. and Tidewater Lighting & Design in Old Saybrook, Conn.
Finalists for lighting showrooms in the West are Fort Worth Lighting in Fort Worth, Texas, Hansen Lighting in Orem, Utah, Passion Lighting in Grapevine, Texas, and Robinson Lighting in Plymouth, Minn.
The finalists will submit materials for judging in the fall, by a separate panel of industry experts, and award recipients will be announced at the gala event in Dallas on Jan. 9, 2026.
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Rejuvenation, a division of Williams-Sonoma Inc., opened its 12th store last week, in Green Hills in Nashville, Tenn.
The 4,300-square-foot showroom features an immersive, in-person environment, where customers can explore the brand’s full assortment — including handcrafted lighting, solid brass hardware, furniture, textiles and décor — many of which are customizable and made-to-order in the company’s Portland factory.
The Nashville Rejuvenation store will also offer customers the opportunity to partner with the Design Crew who can assist with designs projects both on site or through in-home appointments free of charge
As we recently reported, the retailer has partnered with the design studio Roll & Hill on a new lighting collection of chandeliers, pendants and wall sconces.
Rejuvenation Nashville will host a grand opening event on Thursday, Sept. 18, from 6-8 p.m.
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Cross-disciplinary designer Dana Harel, whose San Francisco design studio is called White Dirt, will unveil a new, textile-inspired illuminated sculpture at Collectible New York this fall. The sculptures, collectively called Quilt, were inspired by childhood blanket-fortresses, “spaces where light feels secretive and protective,” the designer said in a release. Alongside Quilt, White Dirt is introducing new families of work: Soft Lights, a new textile lighting series translating quilts into sculptural illumination, and Paper Wall Lights, a trio of plug-in wall lights made of illuminated paper that has been folded and rolled into various shapes.
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Nine lighting pieces from Acuity Brands have been selected for the 2025 Illuminating Engineering Society Progress Report, which highlights the year’s most significant advancements in the art and science of lighting, Acuity said. The following pieces were included: Aculux 5º Precision Spot, Eureka Lattice Ceiling Suspended Luminaire, IVO Deep Regressed Downlights and Cylinders from Gotham Lighting, Holobay industrial LED High Bay by Holophane, Hydrel Wander Pathway and Step Luminaire Family, REBL LED High Bay by Lithonia Lighting, Embrace Overbed Multi-function Luminaire and Observe Cloud troffers by Nightingale Lighting.
