Remains Lighting

General information

Remains Lighting founder David Calligeros launched his successful antiques business on the premise that the best way to sell antiques was to back them up with impeccable customer service. First opened in a Chelsea loft in April of 1996, Remains Lighting sold architectural salvage including antique lighting, bronze grilles, fireplace mantels, stained glass windows and vintage plumbing. Mr. Calligeros personally restored each item he sold to the highest standards, with sensitivity and attention to the requirements of his exacting interior design and architecture clientele. His keen interest in fine metalwork, as well as his desire to have a state-of-the-art restoration workshop devoted to one class of material, pushed him to focus the business on antique lighting. In 1999 he continued this pursuit with the manufacture of his own designs, launching the Remains Lighting Permanent Collection.

Mr. Calligeros’s respect for the outstanding beauty and craft exhibited in the vintage pieces of our collection, and the knowledge he continually gains from restoring them, form the inspiration for the PERMANENT COLLECTION. The fixtures in our PERMANENT COLLECTION are crafted of the highest quality materials and most sophisticated construction techniques possible, to ensure that they will last for generations and become our grandchildren’s treasured heirlooms. The collection is manufactured under the direct supervision of Mr. Calligeros in our New York factory, where we are proudly keeping the history and knowledge of metal craft alive, and creating jobs for artisans, here in the United States.

Remains Lighting now maintains showrooms in New York, Greenwich, Chicago, Los Angeles and London.