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A Lighting Collection Made From Salvaged City Wood article by Roxanne Fequiere for the New York Times Style Magazine
Russell Greenberg and Christopher Beardsley were in the midst of designing a residence for a client when they found themselves in need of a light fixture in the foyer. They looked at another project’s off-cuts piling up in the wood shop dumpster and had something of a lightbulb moment. “That concept of resourcefully using what’s sitting on the floor right next to you got baked into the DNA of the brand,” says Greenberg of Stickbulb, the lighting manufacturing company that he and Beardsley, former classmates at the Yale School of Architecture, co-founded in 2012. Stickbulb is known for creating sleek pendants, chandeliers and sconces out of wood reclaimed from decommissioned water towers and demolished buildings; its latest lighting collection, called Treeline, marks the New York brand’s first time sourcing wood directly from the city’s trees. Every year, storms, construction and other issues lead to thousands of trees being removed from city streets and parks. Treeline uses what would otherwise have been sent to a landfill to create the collection’s linear fixtures. “The trees in the urban forest here, they’ve got so much character,” Greenberg says of this new supply chain. “[They have] this wild, beautifully organic complexity that reminds you that the world isn’t made in a factory.” From $1,400, available online and on view by appointment only at the Stickbulb showroom in Long Island City, Queens, stickbulb.com.

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