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Luminaire
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Luminaire is an American contemporary design retailer founded in 1974 by Nasir and Nargis Kassamali, beginning as a lighting store in Miami and evolving into one of the leading destinations for authored contemporary furniture and design in the United States.
Luminaire represents European and international design brands including B&B Italia, Cassina, Flexform, Living Divani, Molteni&C, and Vitra, selling furniture, lighting, kitchen systems, and accessories through large-format showrooms. The company operates flagship showrooms in Miami's Coral Gables and the Miami Design District, as well as a Chicago showroom, alongside its e-commerce site luminaire.com. Beyond retail, Luminaire has functioned as a design advocate: it hosts exhibitions, lectures, and cultural programming with designers and architects, and the Kassamalis have received design industry recognition for their role in bringing international contemporary design to the American market.
A substantial part of Luminaire's business serves architects, interior designers, and developers through contract and trade services, supplying residential towers and commercial projects. The company remains privately held and headquartered in Miami, Florida.
Luminaire represents European and international design brands including B&B Italia, Cassina, Flexform, Living Divani, Molteni&C, and Vitra, selling furniture, lighting, kitchen systems, and accessories through large-format showrooms. The company operates flagship showrooms in Miami's Coral Gables and the Miami Design District, as well as a Chicago showroom, alongside its e-commerce site luminaire.com. Beyond retail, Luminaire has functioned as a design advocate: it hosts exhibitions, lectures, and cultural programming with designers and architects, and the Kassamalis have received design industry recognition for their role in bringing international contemporary design to the American market.
A substantial part of Luminaire's business serves architects, interior designers, and developers through contract and trade services, supplying residential towers and commercial projects. The company remains privately held and headquartered in Miami, Florida.
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Luminaire is a Miami-based contemporary furniture retailer founded in 1974, representing brands such as B&B Italia, Cassina, and Molteni&C through showrooms in Miami and Chicago, with strong trade services for architects and designers and a decades-long role promoting international design in the US.
Brand Details
Brand Tier
High Luxury
Price Range
$500 - $50,000+
Founded
1974
Headquarters
Miami, United States
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Luminaire is one of the few American retailers that can genuinely claim credit for shaping the country's taste in contemporary design, rather than simply following it. Since 1974, the Kassamalis have built a business around Italian design houses, B&B Italia, Cassina, Flexform, Molteni&C, that represent the pinnacle of European authored furniture, and Luminaire's role as an early American gateway to that world gives it a heritage most competitors cannot claim. The showroom experience, particularly in Coral Gables and the Miami Design District, reads as closer to a design gallery than a conventional furniture store, reinforced by the company's ongoing commitment to exhibitions and cultural programming with architects and designers. That intellectual positioning is a genuine differentiator, not a marketing veneer. The trade and contract business supplying residential towers and commercial developments has become a core revenue driver, which speaks to how deeply embedded Luminaire is within the professional design community, even as it maintains a retail presence for private clients. Pricing sits at the serious end of contemporary furniture, appropriate given the brands represented, though it puts the collection out of reach for casual shoppers. As a design institution, Luminaire remains one of the most credible names in American contemporary furniture retail.
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