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Collaborator ProfileDecember 2024

Collaborator Profile: Designer Jay Jeffers

For the third in our Amplified Lifestyles Collaborator Profile series, we had the pleasure of interviewing interior designer Jay Jeffers. The Texas native founded his San Francisco-based firm in 1999 and has expanded to New York. Putting the client first, he and his team create luxurious yet livable homes that feel collected, blending interior architecture,…

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Collaborator ProfileOctober 2024

Collaborator Profile: Peter Lau, FMA Builders

FMA Builders is one of the high-end residential builders Amplified Lifestyles collaborates with. One of their principals, Peter Lau, has a career that spans the esoteric of apprenticing with a Japanese master temple carpenter to the practical of running world-class projects for international developers. He started at FMA in 2000 as their first project manager,…

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Out and AboutSeptember 2024

Amplified Out and About: CEDIA Expo Round-up

Amplified Lifestyles recently attended CEDIA Expo 2024. The Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO, hosted the three-day event in September, during which attendees experienced cutting-edge innovation. The team explored new products from hundreds of technology brands. One of their favorites was  Samsung's latest additions to its MICRO LED portfolio of video walls. With a bold…

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Collaborator ProfileJune 2024

Collaborator Profile: Lighting Designer Eric Johnson

Amplified Lifestyles is fortunate to collaborate with many elite industry partners on their projects. One of these is the lighting designer Eric Johnson of EJA Lighting Design. Lighting was Eric's destiny as his father, Merlin Johnson, invented, developed, and manufactured an optical lighting framing projector in 1969 for fine art. Today, EJA Lighting Design's portfolio…

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HistoricApril 2024

Family Legacy: Lutron Electronics

We think of Lutron Electronics as a technology-driven company, but its co-founder, Joel Spira, was equally fascinated by aesthetics and how light affected mood. In 1959, the young physicist worked from a spare bedroom in his Manhattan apartment and developed the solid-state dimmer. He called his invention Capri and aimed his marketing efforts toward women, not…

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