"Instead of the goopy Baroque or Venetian-style chandeliers with 20 colors, we're now seeing one color with maybe another color added on the details, " said Mr. Fuchs, who has written and illustrated "The PatternBook of Lighting, " a guidebook to lighting that's out this month.
In its 25th-anniversary commemorative book, published in 1993, Intel boasted that it had reversed the usual pattern of an American invention's being turned into a Japanese product.
