Hammerton Custom Lighting: Setting the Industry Standard

As a leading custom lighting designer and manufacturer, Hammerton routinely works with top design professionals across the country on a wide variety of custom projects, from one-off signature chandeliers to entire custom packages including dozens of custom designs and hundreds…

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Decorative Dome Lights

Decorative dome lights are a great source of soft, ambient light and are also ideal for distributing light in a large area. These versatile fixtures can be fashioned as either flush-mount or semi-flush mount ceiling lights, pendant lights or chandelier-style…

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The Ins and Outs of Wine Cellar Lighting

Good lighting can make a world of difference in the design of a well appointed wine room. Your  cellar’s overhead lighting  can spotlight your wine collection while simultaneously setting a relaxing atmosphere for your enjoyment. When it comes down to the…

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Project Spotlight: Wildridge Residence

The common denominator among great mountain interiors is striking that elusive balance between reassuring warmth and surprising design. Hammerton “raised the bar” design-wise for this mountain modern home. Located in Beaver Creek, Colo., Hammerton’s  Wildridge Residence project  combines reassuring warmth with…

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Artisan Profile: Nate Anthony

When it comes to troubleshooting design and fabrication issues or building custom light fixtures from virtually any material, Nate Anthony is your guy. A Hammerton artisan for nine years, Nate possesses an exhaustive knowledge of materials, processes, equipment and more….

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Add Artistry to Light Fixtures With Seriphs

To find the perfect marriage of design and materials in a proportionally scaled light fixture is extremely tough, and few do it well. However, you can achieve both precision and artistry with one of our original designs from Hammerton’s  Seriph Collection…

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Recap: January Dallas Market

Our time at the January retail lighting market was simply incredible! Encompassing over 1 million square feet of space and thousands of product lines from major lighting manufacturers, the Dallas International Lighting Market is the largest retail lighting market in…

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Light up Your Entryway for a Warm Welcoming

Since so many homes today have casual side entrances, it is easy to overlook your formal entryway décor. However, it’s important to keep in mind that the entry is the first area guests see when they visit your home, so…

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Shop Talk: Packaging Prowess

At Hammerton, meticulous attention to quality and detail extends well beyond the production facility. We also take several extra steps to ensure our light fixtures look as good coming out of the shipping crate as they do going in. For…

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Add Drama to the Kitchen With an Impressive Chandelier

Brilliant chandeliers are often relegated to our home’s more formal areas, while in the kitchen —  “the most utilitarian room in the house” — we usually settle with predictable pendants or function-focused ceiling lights. But in recent years, kitchens have…

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Materials We Love: Mica

Mica is a remarkably versatile mineral that is widely used in literally thousands of industrial and consumer products. The roof, drywall and paint in your home, the fenders and motor starter of your car, your microwave oven, computer, home security…

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Lenses Can Make the Light

When it comes to good interior design, more often than not, less is more. This rule applies to every aspect — including decorative lighting. Often the most interesting fixtures are those that showcase one particular design element — form, scale,…

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Beyond Lighting – Furniture by Hammerton

Hammerton is more than beautiful American-made light fixtures. Our selection of furniture, artisan crafted with sustainable woods and eco-friendly finishes like our lighting, makes it possible for clients to achieve consistent style, scale and finish quality across all their furnishings….

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Working With Customer-Specified Materials

Designers looking to extend a particular aesthetic through light fixtures often turn to Hammerton to work with customer-specified materials. We can build ceiling lights with just about any type of material required, from the simple and straightforward to the wildly…

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