SAN FRANCISCO, CA –(February 22, 2008)– S. Leonard Auerbach announces that the firm’s architectural lighting division is changing its name and that principal Larry French became a new shareholder in the parent company.
Auerbach Glasow is now Auerbach Glasow French, Architectural Lighting Design and Consulting. It is one of two divisions that grew out of the original firm founded in 1972 in San Francisco by S. Leonard Auerbach. The other division is Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, Performing Arts/Media Facilities Planning and Design.
Larry French, IESNA, LC, IALD, principal in the San Francisco office, joined the firm in 1988 and is a lead designer and manager for Auerbach Glasow French’s architectural lighting projects. His work has included many large and prestigious projects, ranging from public space interiors, commercial offices, exhibit and retail spaces, residences, renovations and restaurants. Mr. French is currently the lead designer for the design of the Wrightsman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the Vancouver International Airport Expansion and Link in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; and Epic Systems Corporation’s new headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin. His recent prominent projects include the Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City; the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, California; Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts in Napa, California; and Williams-Sonoma Post Street in San Francisco, California.
Auerbach Glasow French provides comprehensive architectural lighting design and consulting services for a wide range of projects. From project design and management to the design and documentation of custom decorative luminaries, optics and control systems, Auerbach Glasow French synthesizes the technical and aesthetic requirements of a project to achieve lighting designs which realize the goal of lighting as a defining element in architectural space.
