If you want good stuff- stay away from the big boxes.
Off the top of my head- and in no particular order or quality:
Sea Gull Lighting
Solara Lighting
Murray Feiss
Hinkley Lighting
Kichler Lighting
ELK Lighting
Minka Lavery
Baldwin Hardware (probably the best quality- if it's anything like their door hardware) but it's all polished brass
Progress Lighting
Quoizel
Maxim
Designers (I'd use the term lightly)-
Trump
Tommy Bahama
Maybe you should try a local lighting showroom like:
Residential Lighting from Williams Lighting Galleries | Williams Supply
One major point of all of this- More than 95% of all the fixtures from those manufacturers are made in China.