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O ering luxury products for master baths and powder rooms is another

category Masterpiece serves well.

center. When the case was nally heard in court,

the judge sided with Masterpiece Lighting and the

case was dismissed.
Now in its 10th year of operation, Masterpiece

Lighting has hit its stride. “It doesn’t feel like 10
years,” Hunt muses, acknowledging that becoming “It’s not

President & CEO of a lighting business was not the
just selling
path he thought his life would take as an interpreter
or in vocational work, but it wasn’t unwelcome.
a lighting

“I’ve always wanted to be a part of something I
know is honorable,” Hunt says. “We’re true to each xture; it’s

Large foyer pieces and other generously other, and when we make a mistake, we own up and
providing
proportioned xtures are showcased x it. Our mo o is ‘Excellence in Everything.’ We
inside the glass block cylindrical staircase believe in doing the right thing. It’s been personally
a solution.
leading to the rst oor.
ful lling,” he adds.

You know,
decade accoMplishMents

that’s real
Ten years a er that inauspicious beginning, Mas-
terpiece Lighting has grown and thrived under the can even be a plus. “That way, there are no precon-
value. I
diligence of Hunt, Adams, and Sherer. In addition ceived notions. Although it’s nice if they happen
to the agship location in Atlanta’s design district, to have had lighting classes without any bad sales
want to
there is a distribution center/warehouse of approx- habits,” Adams says. Masterpiece Lighting encour-

grow that.”
imately 30,000 square feet nearby, plus another ages some of the local schools – such as Kennesaw
showroom location in the bustling Atlanta suburb State University – and design schools to bring

—Dana Hunt
of Roswell that opened six years ago. A sizable classes over to the showroom to learn as part of the
portion of one oor in the multi-story agship is curriculum. “There’s a lot to do here. For example,

devoted to high-end and custom hardware, a lucra- we’ll talk about the color and qualities of light,” she

tive department that Sherer oversees. Additional explains. From such partnerships, the showroom
categories include plumbing ings and hardware, has received requests for internships plus full- or

plus luxury kitchen and bath products.
part-time work.
Finding good help isn’t much of a problem. “You Most of the lighting training is from the Ameri-

don’t need to know lighting in order to work here,” can Lighting Association (ALA) manuals. Anyone

Adams states. “We can teach lighting. If you have who wants to undergo Lighting Associate, Lighting
someone with the right a itude, all you have to do Specialist, and Certi ed Lighting Consultant ac-

is train them.”
creditation is given the opportunity to do so.
In fact, not having prior showroom experience

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