We’re well and truly into Spring now and every other year that means it’s time to head south to Milan for one of the worlds largest lighting fairs – Euroluce.
Euroluce – European Light – time for mainly european decorative lighting companies to really show off their talents on a huge scale and what a show it was this year!
Decorative lighting design is being reborn with the LED now a serious and liberating light source. The Decorex show last year had a dirth of LED technology featuring in decorative fittings but here in Italy they have made a serious impact. The show was buzzing with activity as designers and lighting consultants passed from company to company, discovering the latest innovation and application. It seems there is new blood coursing through the lighting design worlds veins.
As LED is such a tiny light source, pencil thin reading and table lights have been launched – you often have to work out where the light is coming from as it seems too small to have a lamp!? Chandeliers that glow from almost invisible sources too. LED’s are so much fun. I even saw a surprisingly powerful 9mm diameter downlight!
OLED is making it’s debut, organic LED’s where wafer thin material shines with light. It’s an embryonic technology currrently limited to small panels but watch this space for this technology to revolutionise everything - again!
LED’s have made it into decorative luminaires with good light outputs and decent colours, even tunable colouring where you can select the warmth of white you want in situ.
You the designer have been released from the constraints of lamp sizes like a spring lamb leaping it’s first few steps into a new born life – and you can see the fun there is to be had!
Go on – get out there and frollick!
