Leah Xandora

L’Observatoire International / Senior Associate

Leah Xandora is an award winning architectural lighting designer based in New York City. As a Senior Associate with 8+ years at L’Observatoire International, she loves the challenge of working across many different projects with their own specific requirements, from galleries, restaurants, retail, homes, ships and trains – every new project feeds into the richness of the next.

She strives to create lighting design solutions that are conceptually strong and technically precise, that take the unique complexities of each project and resolve them in an elegant and meaningful manner.

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