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Tim Leefeldt

 

Insulatorlight 

Architect / Environmental Graphics & Special Events / Store Planner / Product Designer  

Tim is an architect and lighting designer living in Chico. He grew up in the Bay Area and spent time in Chico in the late 70’s. In 1979 he carpentered and designed the landscape, entry structures and gazebo for a home on Guynn Avenue. He took classes at Chico State before applying to the U of O School of Architecture & Allied Arts. After graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture, he attended a Syracuse University Graduate Program and lived abroad outside Florence Italy for a year. In 1984 he returned to San Francisco for twenty years before moving his family to Butte Valley five years ago.

Tim LeedfeltTim has experience in residential architecture, store planning, commercial retail and special events planning involving all phases of architectural services. As a store planner, he designed prototypes and developed store layouts for major retailers. He has worked on store concepts, signage programs, fixtures and interiors for a number of retail chains and specialty stores. For 12 years at Flying Color Inc. in Berkeley (www.flycolors.com) , Tim applied his architectural and organizational skills in the unique niche market of large-scale special event planning and temporary environment installations for major sporting events and themed environments. This included corporate branding for sports teams, a number of Disney projects, museum projects, stadium improvements and signage projects, corporate brand identity campaigns and commercial shoots around the country. 

Tim is an inventor and manufacturer/designer of several products including a pendant lighting product line and home decorative products using old glass and ceramic insulators, traffic light lenses and railroad hardware that are sold in local specialty shops and nationally. Tim designs and makes these products in Chico. His mission is to reuse and re-purpose common glass insulators, traffic light lenses, railroad parts and other common industrial objects and transform these artifacts and relics into useful modern light fixtures and other useful products.   
Stores selling his products include:  Zucchini & Vine, Bird in Hand in Chico, Wolfe Electric and J&J lighting, and OMEGA II, Metro Lighting in Berkeley and Napa Style Catalog.  
  

Insulatorlights & Insulartorware   www.insulatorlights.com, www.insulatorware.com
Portable Pizza Oven                    www.chicoclayovens.com
Architest Wood & Nail Puzzles      www.architest.net