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Fitzgerald Jewelry

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Photo by Adam Lerner. Michael Fitzgerald (in his North 10th St. studio) and his wife Hiroyo have earned high accolades for their wedding band and engagement ring designs.

Michael Fitzgerald has a low-key at­titude about success. Fitzgerald Jewelry, the humble gallery and studio he runs with his wife Hiroyo, doesn’t even have its own storefront.

All that might draw in a casual visitor are a few cases along one wall inside Light Up Brooklyn, a lighting retailer on N. 11th St., and a small sign at the base of a flight of stairs directing patrons to the rest of the gallery. Once upstairs, the first thing one notices is not even the cases of elegant, handcrafted jewelry, but the space itself.

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Light Up Brooklyn, a family lighting business in Williamsburg

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Photo by Adam Lerner. Lars Dahlhaus carries on the family tradition in the lighting business, first started by his father in Germany.

Photo by Adam Lerner. Lars Dahlhaus carries on the family tradition in the lighting business, first started by his father in Germany.

Light is in Lars Dahlhaus’ blood. As the owner of Light Up Brooklyn, Dahlhaus represents the next generation in his family’s long love affair with designing and selling light fixtures. His father owns a high-end traditional lighting company eponymously named Dahlhaus back in his native Germany, and little Lars spent many hours watching his father at work and dreaming about taking up the family trade.

“I grew up in the business,” he says. “Because of my father, I’ve been looking forward to having a retail store my whole life.”

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