Edison Price Lighting History

Edison Price Lighting

established

1952

1953

First track installation (Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT). Track Installed below Louis Kahn’s tetrahedral ceiling beams

1955
Price fabricated and installed this chandelier designed by Richard Kelly in the Barbizon-Plaza Hotel (New York, NY)

1957
Seagram Building’s lobby instalation (Structural Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Interior Architect: Philip Johnson Lighting Designer: Richard Kelly)

1958
First track-mounted wallwasher installation (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY)

1958
Linear wallwash system installed in the Four Seasons restaurant (Interior Architect: Philip Johnson; Lighting Designer: Richard Kelly)

1959
Price constructs the MoMA Tensegrity mast, along with Shoji Sadao and Buckminster Fuller.

1959
Company relocates to East 60th Street, adjacent to the Queensboro Bridge.

1962
Installation of custom wallwashers, illuminating the 50ft. walls of the Place Ville Marie building (Montreal, Canada; Architect: I.M. Pei)

1963
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library installation (Yale University, New Haven, CT; Architect: Skidmore, Owings and Merril)

1967
Custom installation in the United States Pavilion, Expo 67 (Architect: Buckminster Fuller).

1970
Introduction of Autotrak

1971
First Quartz Halogen wallwasher

1972
Kimball Art Museum installation (Lighting Designer: Richard Kelley). Kelley said of Price, "The subtlety with which he can control the handling of electric light is simply superb."

1973
The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX; Architect: Mies van der Rohe). Price serves as lighting designer, as he did throughout his career.

1978
Introduction of the Parhoop, at the installation in The National Gallery (Washington, DC; Architect: I. M. Pei).

1981
Price installing Uminair fixtures in the ceiling of the First City National Bank (Houston, TX; Architect: SOM New York & Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson).

1980s
Expansion into low-brightness fluorescent fixtures

1990
Price receives the Illuminating Engineering Society's Richard Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award

1989
Grand Louvre Pyramid installation (Paris, France; Architect: I.M. Pei)

1994
Introduction of our most popular track system, SightLine

1996
In-house manufacturing of optical accessories begins

1999
Milwaukee Museum of Art Quadracci Pavilion installation (Architect: Santiago Calatrava; Lighting Designer: George Sexton Associates)

2001
Company relocated to Long Island City, Queens (across the East River from its Manhattan location).

2004
Getty Villa installation (Malibu, CA; Architect: Machado and Silvetti Associates; Lighting Designer: LAM Partners)

2004
Exterior installation of Spredlite wallgrazing system in the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)

2006
Illumination of the Greek and Roman Galleries, one of fifteen major installations in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY; Lighting Designer: Renfro Design Group)