Everyone wanted this thing but I only had one and it was just a big fail. We had this 3-tier vintage Italian chandelier, it was a very Stilnovo-style Italian thing, and they wanted to use it for a 20-foot ceiling in his apartment, but we had it on hold for another client. We got a call three years ago from a designer at Jonathan Adler who was working on an apartment for Gordon Thompson, who at the time was the design director for Cole Haan and Nike. “There was a very specific sort of ‘ah-ha’ moment for that. Tell us how you came to focus on bespoke lighting and what sparked (pun intended) the founding of Blueprint Lighting? So I guess I’ve sort of been in design my whole adult life.” Fast forward to now and I own a showroom in Chelsea which is equal parts vintage (I’ve never stopped doing vintage and that’s our company Refine Limited) and current production pieces for Blueprint Lighting. I went completely in that craft direction in a scholarly way. Then I dove really hard into mid-century studio pottery, modernist jewelry, and metalwork. I started getting into museums and sat on the board of directors for a few museums in North Carolina, guest curating exhibitions and writing the exhibition catalogues. “I opened a Mid Century shop in Asheville, North Carolina in late 1999, and sent my better pieces to auction at places like Phillips and Wright. SHOP BLUEPRINT LIGHTING’s CHAIRISH SHOP > Every Blueprint Lighting design starts out as a sketch before being fully realized as a fixture. Pendant Lighting Blueprint Lighting "Counterpoint" … Plus, discover how Blueprint Lighting is bringing custom to the people! Warning: the lighting puns are only just switching on. We recently chatted with Kelly and she shed some light on the art of capturing inspiration, creative workarounds, and the importance of finding your niche. Specializing in crafting custom versions of their sleek fixtures to fit any request (and with a turnaround time of just three weeks!) this NYC-based brand has managed to quickly upend the custom lighting industry. Despite being less than a year old, the company is fully loaded with a roster of mid-century-Italian-industrialism-meets- Hollywood Regency lamps, chandeliers, and pendants, and continually churning out new, striking designs. Kelly Aaron is ready to light up a room…any room! As the ‘Chief Luminary’ at Blueprint Lighting, the boutique lighting company she recently founded with husband Josh Aaron, with whom she also runs the vintage decor outfit Refine Limited, Kelly mans the design decks with help from son, Zoe (mother and son are pictured above).
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