PLATTSBURGH, NY – Schonbek won the Arts Award in January 2006 at the Dallas Super Market in the manufacturing category of lighting fixtures. As a five-time winner, Schonbek entered the prestigious Arts Award Hall of Fame.
The Arts Award is the premier national awards program for the home accessories industry. It recognizes outstanding achievement in manufacturing, design, retailing and sales.
The Hall of Fame now has eight members including Schonbek. According to Sharon Davis, program coordinator of the Arts Awards, "These are the companies we hold up to our industry as an example of excellence."
Schonbek is the first manufacturer of lighting fixtures to enter the Arts Award Hall of Fame.
Entrants were judged on such factors as company history and philosophy, company differentiation, advertising and product design. The heaviest weight was given to company differentiation and product design – or how a company sets itself apart from the competition.
Schonbek was able to document a unique record as a trendsetter, and demonstrate a long-term marketing strategy that built a strong brand identity. In recent years, Schonbek has revived rock crystal chandeliers, reinvented colored crystal chandeliers, introduced tiny crystal chandeliers and revolutionized the high-tech lighting market with a new collection called Geometrix™.
"It's a blessing to be involved with a company that's creative," said President & CEO Andrew Schonbek, "and to be recognized for creativity is a wonderful thing. I'm very thankful for this recognition, and encouraged by it."
Schonbek's product submission was Genesis, a colored crystal chandelier inspired by the Tree of Life. Other products in the Schonbek presentation were Jasmine, a contemporary chandelier formed of optic crystal; Trilliane, a palatial chandelier resembling a crystal sculpture; Matrix from the new Geometrix™ collection of high-tech lighting; Versailles, a seventeenth-century style chandelier with rock crystal; and La Scala, a cast-arm crystal chandelier in the baroque manner.
Schonbek was founded in Bohemia in 1870, and is now the premier manufacturer of crystal chandeliers in North America.
