FOUNDER’S NOTE
OF PLACE A sense of place means a lot to us at The Urban Electric Co.
designer Madeline Stuart’s coastal hideaway in Santa
the community here over these past many years and we
retreat in Sun Valley and peeked inside Melissa Perello’s
We started in Charleston, we’ve deepened our roots in
Barbara, dug deep inside Hemingway’s restored mountain
continue to open up our workspace to friends and clients
latest culinary paradise in the City of Angels.
in new and exciting ways.
Throughout the process, we were reminded of some
This year, we broadened our factory footprint, bringing
essential truths: that connection and community are vital
a new building into our manufacturing landscape
to creativity; that true visionaries are as invested in how
while continuing to redefine and blur the lines between
they live as in where they live; and that the experience of
showroom and workshop.
being there, wherever there is, is what really matters in the end.
Yet even as we revel in our new expansion and the place we call home, we are also constantly reminded of all the
We hope you enjoy this exploration of place as much as
other places out there. The places where we travel and
we did.
find inspiration, the places that shape and inspire you and,
of course, the locations and destinations that provide a final home for our lights.
We spent ten months traveling the world to interview,
profile and document an illustrious group of creators,
designers, artists, makers and connectors in various locales. We traversed the English countryside with Nick
Ashley-Cooper, the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, explored
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