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 AVAILABLE LIGHT & TED MATHER LIGHTING DESIGN MERGE
Award-winning Lighting Design firms Available Light and Ted Mather Lighting Design (TMLD) today announced that they are merging operations effective immediately. Moving forward as Available Light, this merger brings clients easier access to an even broader array of lighting design capabilities and technical innovation.
With offices in Boston and New York, the new firm combines the talents of 14 lighting design and support professionals with more than 70 years of design experience boldly applying theatrical lighting techniques to traditionally non-theatrical environments. The merger leverages TMLD's track record in theatrical, entertainment and museum exhibition lighting design with Available Light's years of innovation in performance, architecture, museum exhibition and corporate communication lighting.
"Our companies have long been 'friendly competitors,' but we only recently realized that together we have so much more to offer current and new clients. We have a great mix of diversely experienced designers who will collaborate to expand the boundaries of Available Light's design work," says Steven Rosen, president and principal of Available Light. "And, our New York clients can tap into Available Light's significantly deeper talent pool, now often located only a subway's ride away."
"This merger makes sense for everyone involved" says Mather, a new principal and managing partner of the Available Light office in New York. "Now we can offer clients a new level of design and technical expertiseÑfrom rock and roll style extravaganzas for corporate events to thoughtful, immersive and creative treatments for museums, and from complex daylighting studies and photometric calculations for architects to state-of-the-art lighting systems for trade show clientele."
The merger also takes place at a time when designers and owners are universally focused on managing the consumption of precious energy resources. "As members of the U.S. Green Building Council, our clients will benefit from our combined commitment to incorporate and tailor exacting LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) sustainable standards to every installation style we produce.
Available Light's repertoire combines award-winning installations seen around the world include: the Museum at Bethel Woods (Bethel, NY); the International Spy Museum (Washington, DC); Les Miserables, Broadway Revival, (New York, NY); The American Presidency, America on the Move & Price of Freedom at the National Museum of American History (Washington, DC), National Museum of Marine Corps (Quantico, VA); the Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose, CA); and Autostadt (Wolfsburg, Germany).
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