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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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HistoricJanuary 2024

Shades of Pink: Arquitectonica’s Pink House

Before the Barbie film exploded on screens with a color palette of 100 different shades of pink, Arquitectonica created Miami Shores' Pink House in 1978. The waterfront villa, fabricated from concrete and clad in stucco with glass-block windows and a voyeuristic porthole, echoed South Florida's Art Deco and Modernist architectural vernacular. Its architects, husband and…

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