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Veranda - November December 2007 (.jpg) Hideware: Accessories, Leather, Seating |
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Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles - Nov 2007 (.jpg) Lamps and Limelight Lamps are to interiors what the perfect pair of earrings is to a simple outfit. |
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Veranda - September 2007 (.jpg) Trade Secrets: Metallic Lighting |
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Jezebel - June 2007- Top 5 Hot List (.jpg) The Light Fantasitc Mary Beth Simpson and Rob Kennedy's Coalition Society lamps are one-of-a-kind handmade designs that are the new must-have for every Atlanta home. Their limited edition collections include floor and table lamps in varied colors, styles and shapes. We love the Wenge table lamp... |
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Atlanta Business Chronicle - April 2007 (.jpg) Luminary Visions Two Atlanta theater advocates have formed a new company, Coalition Society, to fill a niche for exceptional, artistic, unique lighting in the home. Rob Kennedy and Mary Beth Simpson, active supporters of Atlanta's theaters and self-described lamp zealots, are drawing on the craftsmanship of eight artists in the Southeast to give shape to their luminary visions... |
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Atlanta Peach - April 2007 (.jpg) A Wacky Wardrobe and Some Bright Ideas It's all high drama with Rob Kennedy, so why did he start a lamp company? "There are so few good lamps," Kennedy says. "There's a glut of misery. It's painful and terrible. Everything's mass produced. The repetition is horrifying." Tragedy? Opera? Theater of the absurd? Definitely not farce. Kennedy's lamps are bravura performances — obsessively perfected, each design... |
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Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Top 100 - 2007(.jpg) Self-professed lamp zealot Rob Kennedy, once known as teh always smiling manager at Belvedere, has broken off and launched his own wholesale business, Coalition Society, which will feature his own limited-edition designs of blown, thrown, stitched, carved and sculpted lamps. Edgy but elegant, his handcrafted designs (some in conjunction with Southern glass artists Mark Woodham and Tommy Lockart) incorporate traditional... |