1953
First track installation (Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT). Track Installed below Louis Kahn’s tetrahedral ceiling beams
Edison Price Lighting
established
1952
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)
2006
The LED Square, our first LED wallwasher and downlights, selected for the IES' Progress Report
2006
Introduction of the first LED recessed fixture
2011
Introduction of the first LED track fixtures.
2012
Custom LED luminaires, designed to match the original 1950s fixtures, installed in the United Nations General Assembly Hall (New York, NY)
2014
Introduction of the industry's first LED combination downlight/wallwasher.
2015
Opening of the Edison Price Lighting Gallery
2015
Introduction of our first surface-mounted LED
2015
World Trade Center PATH Station installation (New York, NY; Architect: Santiago Calatrava; Lighting Designer: Fisher Marantz Stone)
2015
Our Artima LED/5 and APlus lines were selected for the IES Progress Report.
2017
Edison Price Lighting hits an important milestone: installations in 450 museums and galleries since its founding.
2017
Edison Price Lighting opens the exhibition, Refraction, featuring artwork by lighting designers and light inspired artists.