Libby Langdon took home the ARTS Award in Dallas, a well-deserved honor celebrating a body of work we’ve been proud to create together.

There's a particular hush that falls over a ballroom right before a category is read. At the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, that hush broke into applause for Libby Langdon, named Product Designer of the Year at the 36th Annual ARTS Awards, the home industry's highest honor, hosted by Dallas Market Center and ART.

We were on our feet. Because for years now, we've had the best seat in the house for the work that led here — nine collections, developed sketch by sketch and sample by sample, with Libby and our product team in the room together.

Part of what makes this award so meaningful is how deliberately long the road to it is. Nominations come from across the industry. Product Designer of the Year isn't given for a single beautiful fixture. It recognizes a catalog — consistency, a clear point of view, and work that keeps its integrity across years and categories. That's a high bar, and Libby has been clearing it for a long time. Home Accents Today covered the evening, alongside Designers Today and the rest of the industry press.

Libby's signature is Easy, Elegant, Everyday Style, and that philosophy shapes every conversation we have with her. It starts with a sketch and a very clear instinct about scale — the quality she returns to more than any other, and the reason her fixtures sit so comfortably in a real room. Our product team brings the materials, the finishes, and the craft to meet it.

Then comes the part we love most: a physical sample gets made and hung, and everyone stands underneath and looks up. Libby has always cared as much about the view from below as the view head-on, and you can see that conviction built directly into the work — Graham's interlocking circles were engineered to be just as beautiful from underneath as they are across the room.

That shared attention is why her Crystorama collection reads as one continuous body of work rather than a series of separate launches. On her own site, Libby describes leaning toward classic shapes and then working sleek elements in, so that lighting becomes the focal point of a space. Nine collections later, that description still fits every one of them.

When we introduced Devon and Elliot together, Nancy summed up the appeal: "Libby's designs are functional, elegant, and make a space feel livable." Five years on, that's still exactly right.

Sylvan came first and set the terms, open-air construction, gracefully sweeping arms, silk shades you can use or leave off entirely. It's still the collection designers reach for when a room wants presence and lightness at once. Westwood followed with its Greek key detail, and Graham with those interlocking circles.

Then the vocabulary broadened. Danielson wraps a silk drum shade in a geometric steel frame with a lovely Deco lean. Jennings is graphic open metalwork, its drum shade carrying Libby's signature pattern.

Farris stacks two tiers of fluted glass rods inside rings of warm aged brass, and Elliot reimagines the crystal chandelier, trading cut crystal for chunky glass rods on a polished nickel frame; light bounces between the rods and lands beautifully soft. Ackerly works in ice glass, a textured material that scatters light into a diffused, sculptural glow with a slightly retro edge.

And the newest: Callahan, a textural linen shade trimmed in vegan leather that fastens like a belt buckle. It's a small detail. It's also the whole thesis — take a transitional silhouette, add one piece of unexpected tailoring.

Designer-led product is one of the liveliest categories in home right now, and the collections that endure tend to share one ingredient: time. Time to establish a design vocabulary, revisit it, and let it mature across categories from a lantern to a linear chandelier to a mirror until it reads as a single voice.

That's what the ARTS judges were looking at. Not one launch, but nine of them holding a consistent line, each one better for the ones that came before it. We're lucky to work this way with every designer on our collaborations roster.

 “Congratulations, Libby, on an honor so well deserved. We’re incredibly proud of everything we’ve created together—and even more excited about what comes next.”