Luminaire Chicago

Specialties

Whether the acquisition is a teaspoon or a sofa, our customers experience an extraordinary interaction with good design and benefit from an operational system aimed at an unparalleled level of customer service. Every sales associate is a design-​educated professional and each showroom has a dedicated interior architect on staff to help plan your space to the smallest detail. Our intention is to create and nurture enduring relationships, and we are pleased to say that eighty percent of our customers are repeat clients who refer their friends, family and co-​workers. It is paramount that we build relationships based on flawless service and an unmatched attention to detail, for when a client shops at Luminaire, it is only the beginning of a relationship that we hope will last a lifetime.

History

Established in 1989.

Luminaire Chicago is uniquely situated in a timber loft building in the heart of the city’s River North district, an area boasting the largest concentration of art galleries outside of Manhattan. An inviting and creative three-​level, 21,000-square foot showroom displays the latest collections from the world’s most preeminent designers, consistently evoking the company’s philosophy of how good design can affect people’s lives.

Meet the Business Owner

Nasir K.

Business Owner

«From the age of 16, I dreamt of having something like a church, where people would come to experience good design,» says Nasir Kassamali, who with his wife Nargis, envisioned and created the company. From Kenya and of Indian ancestry, the Kassamalis emigrated to the United States in 1973. Presciently enamored by the work of visionaries such as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto and Arne Jacobsen, their keen foresight stemmed from an intense appreciation for design and grew into a powerful desire to share this knowledge with the public, while making the highest level of contemporary, international products directly accessible to the consumer.