Back in 2015 Henry Moss, an architect I knew in the Boston area, was helping to restore the Gropius House. This was a slide he had sent me. He had trouble restoring the recessed pinspot that Gropius had invented and asked me for recommendations on who might be able to restore this very unique antique.

I just find it fascinating that about 90 years later, the lighting industry continues to obsess over small aperture downlights, instead of focusing on application-level innovation…like Gropius was doing to invent this persistent category.