A place for inspiration, a meeting point for workshops and creative exchanges, an operations centre and various rooms in which to showcase its products, all in one. The Sedus showroom hub in Düsseldorf, Germany, is conceived as an open and versatile floor plan that combines display, work, meeting and relaxation. Here, its products designed for offices, particularly modular furniture and ergonomic chairs, can be tried out and viewed up close, as the space is designed to experience the furniture and its real-life use. Founded in 1871, Sedus is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of office equipment. Its “Made in Germany” product portfolio sets the benchmark in this market in terms of ergonomics, production and sustainability. Today, at a time when working environments have changed so much in recent years, Sedus continues to innovate and adapt with its modern, high-quality pieces, which are as functional as they are aesthetic, as simple as they are durable.

This new workplace architecture is versatile, dynamic and human, made up of different continuous zones without separations, which integrate diverse uses and respond to new, more flexible and connected ways of working. It seems to have answered the following question: How can workspaces be created that facilitate both concentration and interaction? In the current era of hybrid working, people return to the office not only to collaborate and exchange ideas, but also to think and reflect in peace. Companies face the challenge of meeting both needs – concentration and interaction – in shared places. Today, the ideal office is a communicative and welcoming hub, integrated into an ecosystem of different work areas that also includes third spaces such as cafés, green areas or coworking corners.

This Sedus showroom in Düsseldorf (and its furniture too) is a good example of all this: large shared tables and a fully equipped kitchen, warm materials, textiles and comfortable cushions, colour accents, decorative objects, natural elements… Light is an important part of the project, both in how it can help structure the space and create transitions between areas and, at the same time, in how it is a vital element in the experience, accompanying people through different moments and working hours. Through the combination of three Vibia collections, several layers of light have been created: general, ambient and accent, generating differentiated atmospheres without losing continuity. Each luminaire thus adapts to a different use and creates an effect, but it is their coexistence that builds the coherent and balanced environment. A system that should be read as a whole, but which we can also analyse separately.

In the relaxation area, above the sofas, we find Array, a pendant luminaire whose enveloping light softens the space and also a true suspended sculpture, light and dynamic, made from fine threads that interact with the light in a very beautiful way, adding transparency, depth and plays of colour.

Plusminus, a design by Diez Office, runs through the space in different configurations: as a tensioned belt with a linear diffuser that follows the route vertically, in ceiling compositions with cones and spotlights in a beige finish for the relaxation areas, in a semisphere version in Terra Red above the work table, creating a more focused scene, in a sphere version in dining areas with more diffuse light and, finally, as spotlights on a tensioned belt in work areas, providing precision. Here we see the versatility of the collection in all its splendour: lighting tracks made with textile belts that allow luminaires to be freely attached and unique solutions to be created.

Finally, Bigger stands out in the kitchen, introducing a lower, closer light, perfect for specific areas of activity, and defining a point for pause and encounter. Its essential design combines a large-scale presence with a minimal shade, flat diffuser and those ultrafine cables that keep it floating. With generous light descending from above, its imposing scale and serene geometry introduce a new visual dimension.

Three collections for three needs, but with the same common objective: using light to design spaces that merge display and real use, creating more adaptable, connected and human environments.

Featured Products:
– Array
– Plusminus
– Bigger

Crossing the threshold of this 247-square-metre flat on Madrid’s Calle Barquillo, the noise of the city seems to fall away. Located in the heart of the Justicia neighbourhood, in one of those classic buildings where the architecture still retains a certain sense of ceremony, it embraces all the comforts of the present without renouncing its rich history. Completely renovated by Mónica Diago’s studio, the home retains the generous height of its ceilings, its original mouldings, the white-painted timber joinery and nine balconies overlooking the street. None of this, despite the intervention, has been erased. On the contrary. It has been enhanced so that it can enter into dialogue with a more functional and contemporary way of living in the space.

That intention is clearly perceived in the daytime area, where the layout has been simplified to make it more open and natural. The living room occupies the brightest corner, arranged around a limestone fireplace and opening onto several balconies. From there, natural-stone openings lead towards the kitchen and dining room, conceived as a continuous setting that encourages togetherness without losing definition. Everything maintains a balanced relationship between solids and voids, between open areas and more intimate spaces. In the most private part of the flat, three en-suite bedrooms extend that same sense of proportion, accompanied by discreet technical solutions such as aerothermal heating and home automation, integrated without interfering with the reading of the whole.

In an interior of these proportions and with such pronounced height, of course, lighting cannot be limited to resolving purely functional needs. It must enter into dialogue with the verticality, reinforce continuity and help each room retain its identity within the home. Here, light is not an addition introduced at the end of the process. In fact, it forms part of the way the home is laid out and lived in.

In the kitchen and dining room, arranged around a round table, the Wireflow collection, designed by Arik Levy, introduces a suspended geometry that responds to that scale. Its fine taut cables draw a precise, almost graphic structure in the air, framing the area without enclosing it. The luminaire defines the centre of the gathering and accompanies everyday gestures such as eating or talking, providing an intermediate scale between the architectural structure and the furniture. Its presence is light, but its effect is clear: it establishes a visual axis that balances the spaciousness of the room and reinforces the height without overloading it.

A few metres away, in the living room, the Match collection, conceived by Jordi Vilardell and Meritxell Vidal, offers a different reading. Its suspended rods trace lines that expand more freely, creating a composition that adapts to the living area and surrounds moments of rest. It introduces rhythm without altering the serenity and creates a more expressive counterpoint to Wireflow’s structural precision. If in the dining room the light concentrates and defines, here it unfolds and accompanies, creating a more relaxed atmosphere.

The two solutions do not function as isolated elements, but as part of a shared strategy. While Wireflow articulates the shared space and highlights the vertical proportion of the property, Match supports a slower pace and reinforces the domestic dimension of the living room. Throughout the day, this relationship becomes even more evident. In the morning, the kitchen and dining room are activated as the central hub; at midday, the table becomes a place for extended gatherings; in the afternoon, the living room takes on a calmer rhythm. The lighting accompanies these transitions with precision, adapting to the activity without imposing itself or competing with the architecture.

Ultimately, the project demonstrates how light can reinforce the identity of a classic home without blurring it. The historic base of the property coexists with a contemporary sensibility expressed in the materials, the layout and the way it is illuminated. It is not about highlighting one piece over another, but about creating a coherent atmosphere in which all the elements balance naturally. When lighting is integrated from the outset into a renovation of this kind, the result is not merely aesthetic. Above all, it proposes a more conscious and harmonious way of inhabiting the home.

Credits:
– Property: Lumier
– Design and renovation: Estudio Mónica Diago

Featured Products:
– Wireflow
– Match

It is difficult to pinpoint the moment when a journey begins. Does it happen when the plane takes off? When we close the front door after checking that everything is in order? When we place the first pair of trousers, folded, in the suitcase? Some would say it does not officially begin until we set foot at our destination, with routine and everyday habits already far away, forgotten. But if the Nachbaur Reisen travel agency in the Austrian city of Feldkirch demonstrates anything, it is that the journey can – should – begin much earlier. The anticipation, the desire to plan every detail, the research into the place we are travelling to are all part of it too.

For this reason, in its new space, designed by Derenko studio, the journey begins as soon as you walk through the door. Its design is intended to make you feel as you would in a hotel: welcome, comfortable, cared for. The layout, materials and lighting evoke the formal language of a boutique hotel. A sculptural reception desk that welcomes visitors, wood that brings warmth, greenery dotted throughout every corner. It is a flexible space, with some more open areas and others more private, designed to accommodate families, groups of friends or individual travellers.

The Plusminus collection, with its flexibility and endless possibilities, adapts to the space and enters into dialogue with an interior architecture defined by curved lines to guide the journey organically. It transforms the space into a welcoming place, but does so in stages, without overwhelming – first the welcome, then the consultation and, finally, the private conversation – just as the best host in a hotel would. With its warm, layered light, it enhances the materials, accentuates the curve and the natural quality of the greenery.

The use of this collection at Nachbaur Reisen‘s headquarters highlights its versatility, a quality that Diez Office sought to take to its fullest expression when designing this reinvention of track lighting. At its core is a textile belt – available in different colours and finishes – with an integrated electrical conductor, allowing all kinds of luminaires to be placed along it and thus creating unique lighting for each space according to its requirements. The Plusminus collection is one of those within the Lighting Toolkit, conceived to design lighting solutions in the same way as a made-to-measure suit: adapting to materials, architecture and needs.

In this travel agency, it marks the route. At reception, to welcome visitors and enhance the counter, a linear diffuser with a textile belt in a beige finish was chosen. Beside it, in a corner perfect for that coffee over which the first ideas for the journey are sketched out, the textile belt in a Terra Red finish is loosened, with several spherical luminaires suspended from it. A modern, clean version of the chandelier that introduces a colour accent and reinforces the invitation to stay.

The same combination – the clean straightness of the linear diffusers and the looser arrangement of the suspended spheres – is repeated throughout the rest of the space. The diffusers softly illuminate the consultation tables. With their refined design, they recede to allow the conversation, the answers to every question and the carefully planned details to take centre stage. The suspended spheres bring clarity and warmth. They create corners in which to spend time, to share. Corners that could belong to the communal areas of a boutique hotel, inviting you to pause and let ideas settle before making the best decision.

The offices of Nachbaur Reisen speak of its values, its philosophy, and also of something more universal: that shared desire for face-to-face contact, closeness and a human, professional approach. With this project, they point to the direction ahead, the future of retail: points of sale that are much more than that, experiences in their own right. Thoughtful lighting, together with materiality and architecture, enables the space to convey that warmth and makes everyone who enters feel comfortable, welcome and in good hands. To feel that the journey has already begun.

Credits:
– Interior Design & Photography: © Derenko Innenarchitektur

When Iwasaki first handled a sample of the material that would later be used to form the shade, it became clear to him that, if developed at a larger scale, the fabric’s unique qualities could be harnessed to create an outdoor light unlike anything he had seen before.

The knitted material — firm yet flexible — became the starting point for the design. It offers a gentle elasticity, yielding softly to the touch and yet easily returning to its original shape. This resilience makes it suitable for indoor and outdoor use.

Iwasaki‘s designs are characterised by a timeless aesthetic based on clean lines and refined proportions. Closer is another example of this approach. Each shade is individually handcrafted, woven with precision to ensure a consistent texture and an essential, flawless silhouette.

Closer is particularly innovative in that there is no rigid structure to support the shade. Its curved volume is self – supporting, a concept developed through intensive experimentation in pursuit of simplicity and visual lightness. Integrated into the upper part of the shade, the light source remains contained and unobtrusive.

Without an internal frame the translucent fabric defines the luminaire’s presence, gently filtering the light to create a subtle, shimmering effect. The textile volumes appear to float, softly inflated with warm, diffused light, while casting a gentle halo below.

Closer provides visual and tactile depth, even when unlit. Designers can choose from three different shades, each with distinct proportions. A range of elegant hues — terracotta, beige, and green — introduce subtle nuances to the light, while a black perimeter trim reinforces the definition of each volume.

Iwasaki‘s design philosophy blends simplicity, functionality and emotion. He believes that good design should be intuitive, enhance the user experience, and blend seamlessly into people’s everyday lives. Closer’s versatile presence resonates in any setting , residential or commercial, adapting to different moments of the day and to varying light conditions.

Conceived to deliver the comfort of indoor lighting outdoors, the floor and table versions are portable, cordless, and inductively rechargeable via a sleek base. Thanks to the delicacy of its lines and the versatility of its various versions and finishes, the collection integrates effortlessly into terraces, living rooms, gardens, and bedrooms, enhancing the quality of each moment.

Light accompanies the passage of time, influencing mood and shaping our emotions. Based on this concept, Closer is conceived not just as a luminaire, but as an experience – a comforting presence that enriches everyday living. It offers a balanced and gentle atmosphere across contexts, moving fluidly between interior and exterior spaces, and adapting with ease to different moments throughout the day.

Plusminus Essentials maintains the transformational potential of Plusminus, bringing a more accessible approach to the system. The Plusminus collection is based on a textile belt where the conductive electrical wiring is woven imperceptibly into the fabric. Different light fittings can be attached to any part of the belt through the click & connect facility, illuminating different spaces in an instant and providing great compositional freedom. Plusminus Essentials builds off this premise, an uncomplicated solution for residential and contract projects, facilitating simple and flexible lighting configurations that can be adapted to any project. Furthermore, it’s much easier to transport and deliver to site, which is a bonus in a market that is increasingly fast paced.

The proposal is based on a system of four different toolbox options: each containing a selection of preconfigured components within that facilitate the creation of lighting compositions. With just a single toolbox the user can build a series of configurations, freely adapting them to the needs of any individual project. With this approach each toolbox is based on a predetermined selection of elements, while the final design remains undefined, allowing for the creation of different compositions within the possible options offered by each box.

Each toolbox allows the user to choose the textile belt finish (available in black, terracotta, green, blue and beige colours) and select the type of control and electrical connection (surface, recessed, remote or floor), within the predefined options of each box.

For more free-form and complicated compositions Plusminus provides the solution. A tool that offers complete freedom to create, collaborate and explore, adapting to any imaginable architecture while facilitating infinite configurations. With the help of the configurator completely bespoke compositions can be developed that adapt to any architectural setting.

The Nexum collection came about as an homage to the classical lamp with its uniquely elegant and historical overtones, but its designer Arik Levy wanted to reinterpret it more from an architectural perspective to incorporate it into more contemporary projects, both residential and contract. So that interior designers have a more actualised version of the traditional chandelier at their disposal which more than being merely decorative works as an adaptable system in three contrasting scales: small, medium and large – making it highly versatile.

Nexum treats electrical conductivity as its main structural principle via a continuous flow of light horizontally and vertically creating a network of lines that extends outwards to configure a precise geometric mesh. And the spotlights are integrated with the structure in a highly discreet manner, becoming part of the system, a seamless continuity. The choice of Led technology allows light and geometry to merge through the same shared language offering an even, balanced and glare-free illumination.

That’s the idea. Understanding light not as an isolated point in space, but instead as a structure inspired by conductivity, that channels the light through space, unfolding both horizontally and vertically from above. In this way, that structure organises, connects and defines the space being illuminated, complementing the architecture in an organic way. The result is a light fitting that brings order, rhythm and scale to spaces, without overwhelming those same spaces, the opposite in fact, they merge with the overall composition.

The Nexum ceiling version on the other hand presents a more integrated solution for the upper plane within a space, much more linear character. It projects a uniform downward lighting, guaranteeing visual comfort which makes it ideal for circulation zones, residential spaces and contract areas, wherever clarity and continuity are required.

Seen in perspective Nexum unmistakably becomes part of the spatial structure taking on a luminous geometry that connects and precisely orders the visual plane, and at the same time generates a calming, clear and coherent atmosphere.

Its designer, Antoni Arola, was inspired by the composure of the traditional double-pitched roofscapes of Asia and the delicate nature of rice paper in the design of the different components of the Asia collection, with the clear intention of reinterpreting the architecture of the East under a calming and uniform lighting concept.

The light fitting is articulated as a layering of different materials. On the one hand a quartz glass cylinder that houses the LED light source, and on the other a double pitched lacquered glass diffuser that filters the light into a warm halo, even and nuanced. The combination of densities makes the light look as if it’s coming from within, as if it were expanding organically to give form to an object with a delicate and harmonious visual presence.

Asia is conceived for interior spaces and includes three versions: pendant, with an adjustable height in three different lengths; floor lamp, measuring slightly more than one metre in height; and tabletop version, in a choice of single or double shade models, a reinterpretation of the library lamps in a more contemporary design language. These two latter versions include an adjustable diffuser.

In fact, the collection generates a dual lighting effect that allows for the creation of different lighting scenarios depending on the space and the user requirements. It offers both a diffused and immersive light, filtered indirectly through the lacquered glass, combined with a more precise and concentrated directional light, modulated by the diffuser’s angle or suspension height.

For any of these three versions the structure is available in a black, beige and off-white versions, adding a sober framework that enhances the purity of the glass. An elegant and precise contrast that supports the fitting without weighting it down, reinforcing its timeless quality and easy integration within a variety of decorative styles.

Along these same lines, Asia can adapt to any type of project, from residential, to contract, to hospitality, thanks to this luminous duality and it offers a variety of versions and lengths, allowing the interior designer to create bespoke compositions; everything from individual pieces to linear compositions or different height arrangements. Whatever the preference the light can dialogue with its architectural setting and creates a highly customised atmosphere.

That helps explain why the collection features such a wide variety of applications, equally suited as a pendant lamp for a dining table, whether in a residential or restaurant, tracing a clean and warm lighting silhouette that appears to float weightlessly. In addition, the adjustable height means its settings can be adapted, providing a more intimate and focused effect closer to the surface, or more expansive when raised.

The table lamp is perfect for generating a more intimate, relaxing light for nightstands in bedrooms, aiding relaxation, thanks to its nuanced non-invasive illumination, generating a more immersive sensation that invites sleep at the end of a day. This version of the Asia collection is also perfectly suited to work zones, offices or hotel reception areas.

The floor lamp option, meanwhile, offers great versatility in lighting a cosy reading nook, a lounge area in a lobby, or creating an ambience within an entrance space. Thanks to their adjustable angles, both versions can direct the light wherever necessary, maintaining the visual composure that characterises them.

Asia is a versatile lighting collection, conceived for customising projects but aways through a warm and harmonious illumination, that invites you to enjoy the fusion of craft, innovation and poetic expression for a wide-ranging application of uses and spaces.

The sensual experience of enjoying a beautiful dawn inspired the Palomba Serafini Studio in the creation of the Alba collection. That moment when the day’s first light emerges, appearing over the horizon, rising steadily helps generate the outline of this portable lamp, elegant and composed, both formally and functionally, with a marked tactile sensitivity.

Alba is a lamp of two parts, two volumes that appear to fuse along the tangent of their respective geometric curves. On the one hand it features a circular base, shiny and rounded, and on the other a diffuser that gives off a tenuous and welcoming aura, supported on a solid translucent cylinder. The identity of Alba resides in an almost imperceptible transition between material and light, just like the dawn itself.

Although conceived for indoors, its cordless portability allows for occasional use in outdoor spaces, thanks to the ergonomic curvature of the base that adapts seamlessly to the palm of the hand, making it easy to carry around. Wherever we want to create a cosy atmosphere Alba provides that discreet light, silent and subtle that helps set the mood at those times during our daily routines when calm is needed, whether that be at home or in hospitality projects, when alone or encouraging conversation with others.

Its carefully designed form, which recalls a contemporary candleholder, blends seamlessly with any modern interior setting, with the added advantage of being mobile to create an appealing ambience when placed on a dining table, by a bedside, on a restaurant terrace, within a favourite reading corner or the entrance of a hotel.

Its suitability for different indoor and outdoor settings lends Alba a versatility highly sought after in contemporary projects, providing solutions for intimate and relaxing lighting atmospheres. And if that light is also portable, the collection’s usefulness increases in every way an interior designer looks for: functionality, design, practicality, lightness, durability… and, above all, its ability to create ambience.

Alba is recharged via USB-C and offers three different degrees of lighting intensity, controlled via a touch switch, almost imperceptibly integrated with the base. In this way the lighting can be adjusted to match different moods and ambiences throughout the day, without affecting the purity of its design.

Furthermore, Alba is available in three different finishes, adopting Vibia’s signature natural colour tones: terracotta, green, and beige. A refined colour palette that enhances the softness of its form and makes the instinctive gesture of wanting to touch the sensual lighting part of this nomadic lamp’s appeal.

The lighting provided by the Alba collection is suggestive rather than dominating, capable of transforming any corner into a calming setting whether it be inside or outside, a residential or hospitality project… making spaces for reading a good book, observing the stars or engaging in conversation. Alba transforms the everyday into a series of unique moments accompanied by light, filled with sensuality.

Why do we read? Because reading expands the mind, opens the door to other lives and, at the same time, allows us to look at our own lives with fresh eyes. We read to recognise ourselves in others, to sharpen our empathy and because, just like a memorable journey or a great love, a good book never leaves us unchanged. We also read because, in a world that moves ever faster, reading invites us to pause, to focus and to embrace a quieter, more thoughtful ritual.

In summer, time slows down, making it the perfect moment to immerse ourselves in new stories, ideas and ways of seeing. To enrich our imagination with new references and then return to everyday life inspired, allowing those stories to find their way into new projects and fresh ambitions. Our team already knows which books will accompany them through slow days and peaceful evenings. Among them are essays on design, but also reflections on society and consumer culture, books about how we live, novels in which the landscape becomes a character in its own right, and collections of short stories. Together, these recommendations are a reminder of the importance of nourishing ourselves with diverse references because we never know which one will spark the next great idea.

Designed by Ichiro Iwasaki, Closer provides a warm immersive lighting that compliments different moments throughout the day, actively interacting with outdoor terraces, living rooms, gardens and bedrooms thanks to its refined silhouette and semi-transparent volumes, as well as the other options made possible by the different models and finishes within an endless number of applications for homes, hotels, restaurants, etc.

Closer is clothed in a hand-woven mesh that adds a highly visual and tactile quality, even when turned off. The objective is to convert the volume of the lamp itself into the source of illumination (including the light coming from within), without affecting the shape, simply projecting a halo of light capable of transforming its surroundings thanks to the diffuse and warm lighting effect.

The lighting professional has three different designer silhouettes at their disposal, each adopting slightly different proportions, either wider or more elongated, that adapt to the individual projects in hand, whether that be residential or a commercial establishment.

The collection features a pendant version and a portable floor lamp in various pastel finishes from the Vibia colour palette, such as terracotta, beige, and green. Each colour choice adds subtle nuances to the lighting of the space thanks to the woven mesh, which enhances the fitting’s handcrafted character, with a black perimeter trim detail designed to reinforce the perception of the volume.

The versatility of the Closer collection allows for playful combinations of volumes, colours and heights offering diverse options for crafting mood lighting within real life settings, like encouraging conversation in a living room, or chilling out on a terrace. And one of the great advantages is that the same light fitting can be enjoyed both indoors and outdoors while providing an aesthetic continuity without sacrificing lighting quality.

Closer, in its pendant version, is the perfect choice for hanging over the dining table or even the kitchen island, as well as for exterior porches and terraces, to illuminate the dining experience. It acts as a decorative focal point, warm and practical in use, with a sophisticated air. And in bedrooms it’s the ideal alternative to the traditional tabletop lamps for the bedside. A perfectly calibrated application in contract projects, both for hotel bedroom suites or in restaurants, as well as for tabletops, lounge areas, bars and rooftops, anywhere where the client experience can be heightened.

That hanging version can be installed via a cable, allowing for the height to be adjusted as required, or a fixed metal rod available in two lengths, which adds a greater stability especially for sloped ceilings or outdoor areas exposed to the wind; in both cases the aluminium ceiling rose is subtly integrated with the ceiling plane.

It’s also available in tabletop and floor lamp versions, with a dimmable light switch that adapts to different times of the day: reading, conversation, resting … an option that is also available for the pendant version. The floor lamp model also provides complete freedom of movement wherever light is needed. Thanks to its lightweight and portable design Closer is the ideal companion for different situations and settings, indoors and outdoors.

These highly versatile versions of Closer make it suitable for lighting hotel lobbies, playfully combining different configurations and sizes to reinforce the identity of individual spaces. It also helps achieve an ambience of relaxed welcome in the reception areas of spas and wellness centres. Including circulation spaces, corridors, entrance areas and stairwells, where it can work as a sculptural lighting element, not forgetting gardens and chillout zones.

All the components of Closer are designed to withstand outdoor weather conditions, meeting IP65 protection standards for both durability and UVA radiation protection. This ensures that the visual comfort achieved for indoor spaces remains unaffected by outdoor use over the lifespan of the collection.

The collection’s aesthetic and lighting continuity allows the same sensations to be experienced indoors and outdoors, with an interesting versatility of combinations as an added feature. And all this within a collection that combines craftsmanship with technology in order to accompany us throughout the day, whether it be at home or a commercial establishment.

Pro defines spaces through precise, dynamic light and essential geometry. Available in trimless, trim, track and surface-mounted versions, the ceiling collection adapts to a wide range of architectural contexts, its discreet silhouette and refined finish enhancing the expressive potential of a space rather than competing with it.

Conceived as a tool for shaping the spatial experience, Pro guides the perception of proportion, mood and materiality through a combination of intuitive functionality and formal purity. Its adjustable head, with fluid rotation and tilting, allows light to be oriented in any direction, shifting from general to precise accent lighting and enabling richly nuanced atmospheres, from intimate to immersive.

Available in three distinct diameters, Pro enables balanced compositions that maintain a consistent visual language. The different sizes and luminous outputs can be combined, ensuring balance and cohesion between different scenes within the same lighting project. With an output of up to 2800 lumens, the collection combines high performance illumination, visual comfort, and high colour rendering. A choice of narrow, medium and wide beam angles allow light to be adapted precisely to the needs of each space, ensuring a thoughtful, layered atmosphere.

Pro integrates downlight and spotlight functionality into a single luminaire. With the head in its vertical position, it provides uniform, controlled downlighting. Its dual axis rotation allows light to be directed with precision to highlight objects, enhance textured surfaces, or draw attention to specific architectural features. This dual functionality allows professionals to create different visual hierarchies using a single luminaire, enabling dynamic environments that evolve with the use of space over time.

Pro offers a range of installation options —surface-mounted, recessed, semi-recessed and track— enabling various degrees of integration within the architecture. The track version, available in both surface-mounted or recessed systems, allows the luminaire to be positioned freely along its length, while the adjustable head can direct light accurately with powerful projection.

Pro’s exceptional versatility makes it ideal for hospitality and retail, as well as exhibition spaces and auditoriums, where professionals can explore light as a tool for defining spatial perception. It takes on different functions, depending on the composition and role of each element within a space. Individual beams create visual pathways and hierarchies, directing spatial flow, drawing the gaze, and defining the prominence of different elements.

With direct accent lighting, focus is placed on the illuminated object, the light creating a theatrical effect through deep shadows and high contrast. With indirect accent lighting, an ambient pool of projected light presents the object in a softer, more subdued manner, simultaneously illuminating the surrounding space. Whether enhancing the height of a space, establishing visual rhythm, or reinforcing the identity of a project, the collection empowers designers to tailor the lighting solution to meet the specific needs of any project.

Extending the collection beyond the ceiling plane, Pro floor and table capture the core technical aspects of the ceiling range in a self-sufficient, independent format that does not require architectural integration or support. Retaining Pro ceiling’s inherently architectural approach, the freestanding models feature the same precise directional control, fluid movement, and an understated aesthetic, while opening up new possibilities for lighting spaces from below.

Thanks to the adjustable head, light can be directed upwards from the ground to illuminate vertical surfaces, enhance the perception of height, highlight materiality, or draw attention to specific objects and architectural details. Offering a choice of narrow, medium and wide beam angles, light can be tailored precisely to the functions of each space, ensuring a comfortable, balanced atmosphere.

Blending discreetly into any interior environment, Pro floor and table are available in free-standing and bolt down versions. The corded model offers the freedom to reposition the light as the space evolves, while the bolt-down option provides a more permanent and secure option for contract applications. Both iterations preserve the collection’s formal purity.

Pro reimagines the spotlight as a comprehensive architectural lighting tool. Across the collection, its intuitive design, high performance lighting, and refined visual language come together to address a wide range of architectural contexts and project needs while maintaining a cohesive visual identity.

Its essential geometry, optical precision, and fluid movement empower designers to establish visual hierarchies and compose spaces that adapt and evolve over time.

From fully integrated ceiling solutions to independent floor and table versions, Pro is founded on the same simple design philosophy: allowing the luminaire to recede so that the light itself can structure the space, define the atmosphere, and shape an immersive experience.

Gastronomy is culture. What we eat not only nourishes us, but it also teaches us, it tells us about the lands where the raw materials are sourced from, about how different dishes are prepared. The Montagud publishing house was founded in 1906 to celebrate this intellectual and communal aspect of food, constructing a published archive that records the legacy of the people who practice the art of cooking. The design of these books, and the Apicus magazine published twice yearly, is impeccable: each of the typographies, the blank spaces, the images are carefully considered. The culinary excellence is informed by the excellence of the books, and that same criteria is now applied to the physical space at the new Barcelona showroom, a space designed for encounters between gastronomic professionals and enthusiasts, food related experiences and shared conversations. A space specifically designed to feed this culture.

The Lago Interioriza studio designed the project which the publishers describe as “a space conceived to support the written word, for meetings and experiences without imposing its presence; a place for people who think about things.” And that design philosophy is also applied to the lighting, designed by Vibia’s Lighting & Wellbeing Studio team as a sequence of settings organised around the space that supports the various rituals that happen there. The Plusminus collection which was designed by the Diez Office featuring a textile belt which integrates the electrical wiring that allows different light fittings to be attached, provides this project with a remarkable versatility and complements the table lamp fittings, Musa, Africa and Mayfair as well as the hanging lamp Tempo.

On arrival, neatly organised bookshelves greet visitors, taking centre stage within the space. Beside them, a long table invites us to leaf through the pages of the books on display. Here, Plusminus helps organise the spatial layout. Along a single textile belt a Linear High Confort is attached that illuminates the tabletop combined with a few spots that direct the gaze towards the bookshelves. Perched over the table is Musa which introduces a more intimate scale through its design by Note Design Studio that attenuates the light through the hand-blown opaline glass shade. Meanwhile Africa sits on the side table, designed by Francisco Gomez Paz, projecting a sculpted, focal and adjustable lighting.

As we continue to explore deeper inside, we arrive at another corner, separated by a metallic curtain with a bar counter equipped for presentations, lined by a wall of shelving not for books this time, but culinary awards which the publishing house has collected since its founding. The story continues, and Plusminus reappears, this time in a green tone with semi-spherical lights suspended from the belt. Here too the elegant and portable Africa lamp focuses the light and will also be featured in the kitchen beyond.

In the area used for recording podcasts, christened ‘Se me antoja’, (I’m craving …), the light becomes more attenuated inviting a more intimate conversation, reflexion, and shared intimacy. An effect that Plusminus once again helps generate, this time with semi-spherical diffusers in a green finish.

We then arrive at the events space, with round tables accommodating gastronomic activities and shared experiences with other diners. Here the lighting is conditioned by the communal activities, inviting a mutual interaction between both while learning about food. The conical version of Plusminus directs the light towards the centre, reinforced by Mayfair Mini, the table version of the lamp, for a more intense illumination. The latter is a lighter contemporary reinterpretation of the classic lamp designed by Diego Fortunato, it reappears in the show-cooking area, supporting gastronomic demonstrations with its focal light over the dining tables and the counters complementing the general lighting scheme that Plusminus provides through the spherical version here attached to the green coloured textile belt. A tandem that perfectly addresses the different lighting requirements within the same shared space.

The kitchen, tucked into one of the corners, introduces a colourful yellow element into the scheme and, as one would expect, is given pride of place. Here the Linear High Confort version of Plusminus returns, a sleek minimalist fitting, highlighting the activities happening at the heart of the space below.

For the bathrooms the subtle silhouette of Tempo, designed by Lievore Altherr, seamlessly blends with its surroundings and completes the spatial flow. The oval structure of progressively more opaline glass attenuates the light and softens it. The collection’s Red Earth finish combines with the candles to create a sensation of calm.

This showroom is proof that food never tastes better than when it’s shared, when it’s discussed, when it is savoured by those who appreciate it. The lighting, a luminous mosaic of different collections that complement one another in the space while also creating a visual continuity, sets the scene for the cultural exchange that happens here.

Much more than simply being decorative the lighting is part of the architecture, dialoguing with it, with the public and the food itself. Adding to the gastronomic experience, highlighting the printed book as an object and celebrating aspects of food that go far beyond the kitchen.

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