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VINTAGE HARDWARE MAKES NATIONAL WAVES

Ken Kelly of Port Townsend’s Vintage Hardware and Lighting store likes New York City.

Not as a place to live. Kelly moved his business to Port Townsend three years ago. But New York is a great place for the high quality and innovative lighting fixtures he manufactures to get noticed.

Kelly was in New York to receive an award at a lighting show on May 5 when he was approached by a committee of people who represented Chicago’s 1925 Union Station, a massive structure built in a neoclassical style.

Would Kelly be interested in touring the historic station and making a bid on replacing its lighting fixtures and lights?

“If we get this job, it will be so monumental,” he said.

2008, Las Vegas, Nevada

LightFair International, hosted and sponsored by Architectural Lighting Magazine and eLimit.com, is the event of the year for the lighting industry. Vintage Hardware was nominated for the 2008 LFI Innovation Award in the category of Chandeliers, Pendants, Sconces, Task Lights & Decorative Luminaries. Mentioned specifically was the fixture 92-CCL-CF, the Electronic Compact Fluorescent energy-saving close ceiling fixture. Available with two ECF bulbs with your choice of wattage and Kelvin temperature (cool bright or warm white), its classic vintage design combined successfully with the latest "Green Technology" put Vintage Hardware among the forerunners in lighting design.

PORT TOWNSEND CHANDELIER HEADS FOR WASHINGTON, D.C.

Excerpted from Peninsula Daily News, March 26, 2008, by Jeff Chew

...Vintage Hardware, 2000 Sims Way, Port Townsend, ... sent off a reproduction of an Oxley-Giddings 1870 gasolier, with 10 lamps and elegant hand-blown and carved glass globe shades.

The glittery fixture will be hung on the Senate side of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., Ken was told.

The agency (Architect of the Capitol) first ordered a chandelier through Vintage Hardware during the Clinton Administration in 1999.

KELLY ART DECO LIGHT MUSEUM

Excerpted from TravelWorld - March/April 2008 By Michelle Newman

"There is no museum collection like this in the whole world, there just isn't" says Ken Kelly founder, curator, and owner of the Kelly Deco Light Museum in Port Townsend, Washington. The museum is the culmination of 30 years of collecting. Before Kelly decided to open the museum, he took one year off from business to do his lighting research. "I was really concerned about getting it right," says Kelly, the ultimate perfectionist.

ALL THAT GLITTERS

Excerpted from The News Tribune, January 19th, 2008 by Niki Sullivan

Ken Kelly is to vintage lighting and fixtures what Willy Wonka is to chocolate.

Walk inside Vintage Hardware, through the monstrous Port Townsend storefront that he helped design and construct, and you’ll find mint-condition antique lighting mixed in with painstakingly detailed replicas of some of the most sought-after antique doorknobs, lights, hinges and ephemera in the world.


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