Sustainability leads at Signify
(Netherlands) – Signify launches world’s first service that lets you tailor your luminaires online, then 3D prints and delivers them to your home.
Signify announces world’s first service for consumers that allows you to tailor and order your luminaire (lamp shade and light) online, have it 3D printed from recyclable material and delivered to your door within two weeks. The company also announced it is using recycled material to 3D print with, starting with used CDs, and today launched a Philips-branded LED table lamp made from 24 recycled CDs.
Following a pilot project in the Benelux, Signify is expanding its consumer service across Europe. With just a few clicks you can design your own decorative luminaire. Simply select your base design, then personalise it, choosing the size, colour, texture and pattern of the luminaire and the type of LED lamp, including Philips Hue lamps. Signify delivers the finished product to your door within two weeks.
Signify’s 3D printed luminaires are built with sustainability in mind. The base material is a polycarbonate that is strong, high-quality and 100% recyclable. A typical manufactured luminaire, excluding the electronics and lamp, has a 47% lower carbon footprint than a traditionally built metal luminaire. Furthermore, no glue is used and they have fewer parts. They are two-thirds of the weight of a conventional luminaire, which translates to a 35% carbon emission saving when shipping.
Signify’s investment in 3D printing further illustrates the company’s commitment to better serving its customers while reducing their, and its own, carbon footprint.
“This is the first mass-market service that allows you to tailor your own sustainable lighting aesthetic," said Khalid Aziz, Head of Ventures at Signify. "And being online, it could easily be integrated into third-party web stores giving consumers more choice. It’s another world first in lighting and illustrates how we lead the way in serving customers all over the world with the most innovative and sustainable lighting technologies.”
Signify has also started using polycarbonate string made from recycled material. The first product to use it is a Philips LED table lamp that uses 24 recycled CDs in its construction. Available from November 28, 2019, it costs €99 and can be ordered from www.mycreation.lighting.philips.com. In the course of next year, Signify expects that all its 3D printed products will be available using recycled material.
“Philips and Sony introduced the CD to the world in the early 1980s. Today, we’re honouring that legacy by creating high-quality, beautiful decorative lamps by reusing this iconic technology,” added Aziz.
Signify has also unveiled major international expansion plans for 3D printing bespoke and tailored luminaires for professional customers. The professional products can be recycled at their end of life.
In 2018, 79% of Signify’s sales comprised sustainable revenues. The company is committed to be carbon neutral in 2020 and was recently named Industry Leader in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the third year in a row.
Mix&Match - Foscarini
Foscarini introduces Mix&Match, a new system designed to offer a more personalised and versatile lighting solution. As its name suggests, Mix&Match allows you to choose from and combine a variety of elements – five diffusers, four functions, and three colours - to create lamps that are perfect both as individual pieces and together in compositions.
It starts with choosing the diffuser size and style from Gem, Gregg, and Rituals; collections that are all crafted in blown glass. Then according to function, you choose from floor, table, wall, or suspension options, and finally, select the support in white, gold, or graphite grey according to taste and design style.
The choice of diffuser defines the character and aesthetics of the lamp. In Foscarini’s collections, blown glass is always reinterpreted in a contemporary key, challenging the complexities of the thousand-year-old craft process and enhancing its expressive potential through skilful craftsmanship. Gem, Gregg and Rituals are the result of experimentation and research on this versatile material; mouth-blown glass whose distinctive material and aesthetic qualities were developed in collaboration with Ludovica and Roberto Palomba.
Gem is characterised by a graphic, undulating pattern of 3D facets across its surface, making the lamp unmistakable even when switched off. Gregg is characterised by its vaguely organic, familiar shape; one which does not reflect pure geometry, but is inspired by nature, like a stone polished by water. Rituals, with irregular horizontal glass engravings across its surface, diffuses a warm, vibrant light and evokes a material effect suggestive of Eastern paper lanterns.
The colour of the support harmonises and enriches the environment. Mix&Match's three colour tones – white, gold and graphite, all in opaque finishings - allow for different combinations, matching each tone to different functions and diffusers. Gold never goes unnoticed and is capable of characterising a space even with few details. Graphite, contrasting with the white of the glass diffuser, conveys an essential and concrete character. White, versatile and fresh, enhances light in its most primary dimension and easily blends with any interior.
Foscarini's Mix&Match system expresses a sartorial lighting concept, developed to offer a more intimate moment of light.
Giuspina - Karman
Giuspina is a simple white ceramic squared wall lamp with bronze details, but also an invitation - or an ironic warning - to take a break, to disconnect and enjoy a moment of total relax.
Louise - Linea Zero
Designed by MM Company design studio & Matteo Agati for Linea Zero, Louise takes inspiration from Victorian interiors. A lamp whose aesthetic interpretation oscillates between majesty and delicacy, Louise adapts to the different needs of modern living, giving a touch of sophisticated elegance.
Amanda Circle - Linea Zero
Designed by MM Company design studio for Linea Zero, Lisbon’s characteristic ceramic tiles inform the design of the Amanda Circle light. Its three-dimensional structure, composed of a Polilux core, comprises small colourful tiles applied to an oval-shaped core, which, depending on the colours chosen, can give a monochromatic or multi-colour effect.
Wanda - Linea Zero
Designed by MM Company design studio for Italian lighting brand Linea Zero, Wanda takes inspiration from the elephant. The lamp structure is rigid and sharp, in contrast to the light that emanates, suffused and delicate.
Linea Light Group wins at LME 2019
(UAE) - Italian lighting group wins major awards with Stilnovo and MA&De.
Decorative lighting brand Stilnovo - recently acquired by Linea Light Group - scooped the product of the year award in the Decorative Table Lamp of the Year category with Fante; while Reflexio by MA&De (2018 winner of the prestigious IF Design Award), ranked top in the Decorative Wall Lighting Product of the Year category.
Gianluca Salciccia, Marketing and Sales Manager at Linea Light Group said: “Dubai, and the Middle East region in general, is one of the markets we are investing a lot in. As a matter of fact, we have gone to the length of opening three branches through which we will follow our projects in loco.”
“The LME trade fair was a great business opportunity for the Group and a further recognition of the quality of our products, two of which, the Fante table lamp and the Reflexio ceiling lamp, won awards in the respective product categories.”
Bella - Marcel Wanders
In collaboration with Alessandro Mendini, Marcel Wanders brings an extraordinary lighting performance to residential or hospitality interiors for Ramun.
Combining light with music, Marcel Wanders has created a lamp that grants a soothing sensory experience. With just the touch of its cap, the lamp comes to life offering ten different classic melodies by Bach, Chopin, Puccini, Pachelbel, as well as a 'Happy Birthday'. Bella is available in golden or silver finishings.
Bella makes light, colour and sound fun and playful. Connecting people and moments, this bell-shaped lamp gives people a sense of place and settings an inviting and melodic atmosphere.
“We design with every sense in mind. The Bella Lamp helps people express themselves and their dreams in a charming way,” says Marcel Wanders.
www.ramun.com | www.marcelwanders.com
Bolita - Marset
The Bolita lamp beckons you to touch it to adjust it. Its idea is simple but magical - a lamp with a mechanical dimming process, a technologically innovative design that brings back the sense of touch.
The lamp's structure is as simple as it is magical: a rounded surface that houses an LED located on a central axis, and an overlapping glass sphere that when moved, creates an eclipse effect. Moving the Bolita dims or boosts the light, an interplay that captivates with its beautiful visual effect.
Andromeda Galaxy - Sonneman
Andromeda Galaxy features LED luminaire hubs connected in linear strains of various lengths and suspended in spiral and radial configurations to form dramatically powerful luminance within a vertical space.
Available in a variety of sizes and configurations with lensed options of crystal facets or soft white, Andromeda Galaxy can also be completely customised for any interior setting. Andromeda Galaxy is an expansion to the Constellation Collection, inspired by celestial imagery and sculptural drama, which recently introduced Cosmic Cube earlier this year.
New chapter for WantedDesign
(USA) - WantedDesign Manhattan joins forces with ICFF.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, 2020 will see WantedDesign Manhattan start a new chapter by joining forces with ICFF under the same roof of the Javits Convention Center.
After nine successful years in the Terminal stores building as an independent show, this new venture allows the co-founders and directors Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat to bring the fair to the next level.
WantedDesign will benefit from the resources and cross-promotion with ICFF, within keeping the identity and essence of the event - continuing to showcase its signature programmes: American Design Honours presented with Bernhardt Design; Launch Pad presented with Design Milk; and Look Book focusing on North American independent studios.
It will also include Wanted Interiors, with immersive and new visions for interiors, as well as group country exhibitions from all over the world.
The Conversation Series and live podcasts with Design Milk and Clever will be maintained as opportunities to connect with key industry decision-makers at WantedDesign Manhattan.
WantedDesign Manhattan will have a dedicated entrance within Javits Center, but the same badge/registration will five attendees access to both shows.
For more information head to: www.wanteddesignnyc.com
Top architectural studio merger
(UK) - Penoyre & Prasad look to expand award-winning health and education practice through merger with Perkins and Will.
Penoyre & Prasad, the award-winning architecture practice behind the Sibson Building for the University of Kent and the new Moorfields and UCL Project Oriel in London, is set to merge with the London studio of global architecture firm Perkins and Will.
Coming weeks after a team of architects including Perkins and Will were awarded first place ahead of hundreds of global architects in a blind competition to design the new European Commission headquarters in Brussels, the merger will allow both practices to draw on the expertise of more than 200 London staff working across the civic, interior, commercial, residential, education, and healthcare sectors.
For Penoyre & Prasad, the merger will offer the practice a significant global platform on which to build, drawing on Perkins and Will’s capacity in the realms of research and sustainability as Britain aims to rise to the challenges posed by the climate emergency.
The move comes as the London studio of Perkins and Will seeks to bolster its global platform and strengthen its client offering in the UK and wider European region, providing design, architecture, masterplanning and research services that span the entire built environment.
The merger harkens back to Perkins and Will’s heritage in North America, where the practice enjoyed considerable growth due to its expansion within the health and education sectors.
In 1935, Perkins and Will pioneered human-centred educational design in Chicago, Illinois, creating open classrooms that supported activity-based learning and provided access to the outdoors, challenging the status quo at the time.
Now, the London studio of Perkins and Will believes that by joining forces with Penoyre & Prasad, they will be able to cement themselves as industry leaders in the health and education sectors once more, which are poised for considerable investment in the UK.
Penoyre & Prasad partner, Ian Goodfellow, believes there is significant opportunity to blend this expertise with the range of services Perkins and Will provides across architecture, urban design, and workplace interiors.
“With the growth of the knowledge economy driving ever closer collaboration between higher education, scientific research, and health sectors, Penoyre & Prasad will be able to draw on Perkins and Will’s global expertise to upscale our collective offer to higher education institutions, health, and research institutes,” says Ian Goodfellow, partner at Penoyre & Prasad.
Steven Charlton, managing director of the London studio of Perkins and Will, added: “Civic projects are very much at the heart of our global business, but our London studio has the potential to play an increasing role in creating award-winning schemes nationally and across Europe.
“The addition of Penoyre & Prasad’s brilliant team strengthens our offer and allows us to bring significant resources to the table at a time when investment in European knowledge industries is seeing an uplift.”
Sustainable design will also be at the heart of this partnership, as both practices work diligently to reduce the environmental impacts of their projects.
Mark Rowe, partner at Penoyre & Prasad, said: “There are seismic economic, demographic, and climatic shifts that we need to respond to and this requires us to break down boundaries that would previously have separated healthcare and education from commercial architecture or urban design. The global expertise Perkins and Will has will expand our ability to grow a presence across those markets in Britain, while complementing their work within commercial sectors.
“Offices that may have once housed financial services firms are increasingly likely to be hubs for medical tech and other innovations, while evolutions across workplace interiors and hotels are informing the way residential and healthcare evolves, embracing a new level of service and user experience. These shifts and transformations within the market require architects to offer comprehensive and integrated design solutions.”
Linzi Cassels, design director of the London studio of Perkins and Will, said: “Our new colleagues from Penoyre & Prasad are an invaluable addition to our team, and to our network of clients. Now, we can seamlessly apply best practices in commercial architecture and interiors to projects in the healthcare, higher education, and civic sectors. And vice-versa. Our clients will have access to everything they need under one roof.”
Penoyre & Prasad will have access to Perkins and Will’s global research lab and extensive European network, which includes Portland Design, a retail consultancy; Schmidt Hammer Lassen, a Danish architecture practice; and Pierre-Yves Rochon (PYR), a luxury interior design practice. With more than 200 employees, the London studio of Perkins and Will is now the firm’s third-largest studio in the world.
www.perkinswill.com | www.penoyreprasad.com
