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New Horizons







Hubbardton Forge


has won design awards 


for its signature 


hand-forged styles,


but next month at 


Lightovation the 


domestic manufacturer 


will unveil two new 


brands that defy all 


preconceived notions 



of what to expect.




BY LINDA LONGO



T

he mo o “Don’t mess with success” 

does not apply to the design team at 
Castleton, Vt.-based lighting manu- 

facturer Hubbardton Forge. While the 
sudden emergence of two completely

new “from scratch” divisions might seem out of the 

blue to customers, their development was far from 
impulsive.

“For the past 10 years, Hubbardton Forge’s prod- 
uct line has been evolving as we brought in di erent 

materials and a more contemporary aesthetic, but 

we still kept true to the brand,” explains David Ki s, 
the company’s long-time Design Director. For the 

last 18 months, the design team has been mulling 
over ideas and formulating prototypes for what 

would become two distinct style departures. With 

all the secrecy of a political cover-up, the company 
managed to keep any inkling of big news from in- 
The Hubbardton Forge 
dustry guests to the factory — even going as far as 
design team were to literally hide the models in progress under wraps 
delighted to discover 
these unusually shaped from anyone not intrinsically involved.

(and rarely used
“It took us a couple of years for the designers to 
in lighting) crystals go in the [style] directions that we knew we wanted 
available from Swarovski.
to go into,” Ki s notes. Aware that many consumers 
o en out  ed their entire homes in Hubbardton



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