Inside $1.1 Million Showroom
By Jason Knott
Crescendo Designs built a $1.1 million showroom, complete with a fully automated home with $500,000 worth of electronics.

Not many integrators are building new showrooms these days, but if you are and your territory happens to be located in one of the most affluent zip codes in the nation, you’d better make it a lavish one.

That’s what Chris Brody, president of Crescendo Designs Ltd., did. The company is located in the prestigious Hamptons area of Long Island, N.Y., where being “elite” doesn’t even cut it … you have to among the “super elite” to make it here.



Crescendo has leveraged all of its top-of-the-line manufacturers to create an incredible Experience Center in Southampton that features a fully automated home with $500,000 worth of high-performance electronics and $400,000 in other amenities, from high-end Italian furniture to custom kitchen cabinets. Construction costs were another $190,000, bringing the total cost of the 2,500-square-foot facility to roughly $1.1 million.

Crescendo, which was founded in 2002 and is a member of the Home Technology Specialists of America (HTSA) buying group, hired architect Blaze Makoid for the project, with the design by Sagaponack.

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