Want to know all the major trends in interior lighting firsthand? Always dreamed of futuristic lighting? Then you will definitely benefit from our article! The largest international exhibition for architects, designers and lighting professionals Light+Building 2018 in Frankfurt am Main was simply spectacular.
More than 200,000 people visited this year, with over 2,700 lighting options from professionals from all over the world on display.
If you want to look at the novelties of the German exhibition Light + Building 2018 together with us, you will find a bonus – comments by Konstantin Prokopenko, creative director of the showroom “Lighting” on Malaya Ordynka, 39.
He will tell us about the main trends in interior lighting for the next seasons.
Manooi. Luminaires with Wi-Fi: our future.
Konstantin Prokopenko, creative director of the “Svetilniki” salon on Malaya Ordynka, 39:.
– There are many lighting trends at Light + Building 2018, but some of them are fundamental.
The availability of the latest technology and safety can be called the main ones.
For example, the brand ARTEMIDE in its new collection has lamps with Li-Fi – which means that they transmit the Internet to the laptop as a Wi-Fi-router, using the technology we are already familiar with in LED lighting.
Thus, provides a broadband Internet connection.
Artemide. Cascading, volumetric, 3D luminaires.
At Light + Building 2018 a lot of geometrically complex cascade lights were spotted.
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One-of-a-kind, many of them made with notes of loft or art deco.
These multi-modular patterns are a new trend in luminaire design.
Note, cascade fixtures are made both small and large, which allows you to implement this trend in a room of any size.
Tunto.
Fashionable materials: marble, brass and others.
Konstantin Prokopenko, creative director of the “Svetilniki” salon on Malaya Ordynka, 39:.
– I was very impressed by the variety of materials for lighting fixtures this year.
For example, there were exhibits made of felt, brass, the trendy material – marble, which now, as we can judge from Light + Building 2018, has returned to its roots, that is, it was no longer just a facing material.
Vibia.
OLEDs, or organic LEDs, are unofficially recognized as an illiquid technology because they are too expensive to produce.
Many factories have stopped (suspended for several years) their work on collections using OLEDs.
Mobile lights with wireless charging.
Konstantin Prokopenko, creative director of the “Svetilniki” salon on Malaya Ordynka, 39:.
– Mobility and wireless charging are two more trends worth paying attention to.
Because of them, the very format of interior design will fundamentally change in the future.
It used to be that built-in lights were a very important part of the composition.
But now the interior, for example the living room, has to be adjusted to improvised lighting options in places that the owner can come up with.
Tunto.
LED luminaires with lenses and reflected light.
Natalia Markevich, practicing lighting designer, curator of the course “Light Design” of the MARSH school:.
– The LED revolution has taken place in 2018.
Using lenses and reflected light, rather than large reflectors, experts have achieved a much more pleasing to the eye glow from LEDs.
Another important nuance: the manufacturers stopped trying to implement LED technology in conventional lamps and came up with new forms, sizes, formats, design ideas and frames for them.
That is why a lot of mini- and micro-LED lighting fixtures have appeared.
Reflected light fixture Santa&Cole.
Luminaire with Simes lens system.
Fiber optics is the future of interior lighting.
Used now in LED lighting, it has great potential for complex compositions: cascading, various multi-modular and geometric, volumetric, as well as for the design of luminaires with luminous fabric, because LEDs can be woven into this material as well.
iGuzzini miniature LED lamps.
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Konstantin Prokopenko, creative director of the “Svetilniki” salon on Malaya Ordynka, 39:.
– It should be noted the desire for innovative, progressive eco-design.
For example, the Spanish factory VIBIA presented the collection “Gardens of Semiramis”, which includes both indoor plants and the lamps themselves.
There are pendant and wall-mounted options.
But most importantly, the collection includes lights with plants that do not require any care or watering.
Another plus is that you can turn such a light on and off, and simply adjust the intensity of the light using your smartphone.
Vibia. Ten lighting design trends from Roomble.
The editors at Roomble have also found the ten hottest trends in light fixture design, taking inspiration from new collections from brands like Giunuco, Karman, Knikerboker, Cangini & Tucci and Zafferano.
Animal motifs in the design of lighting fixtures.
Animals, plants and any other natural motifs in the design of lighting fixtures used to be popular only in textiles, such as lamp shades.
Now the very form of lighting fixtures prompts us to think of the forest or wildlife.
Karman.
Karman.
Giunico.
Karman.
Karman.
Karman. Spherical lighting fixtures.
In 2018 the market was finally and irrevocably conquered by spherical lamps.
Glossy, glazed, transparent, with sequins or inlaid, group and single, they have become one of the main trends in interior lighting.
Cangini&Tucci.
Cangini&Tucci. Luminaires with multi-format modules.
Multi-format modules in the lamps of the new generation are often found in cascade or generally dimensional versions.
Here the lamp becomes almost a work of art – with unusual edges, reflections, details.
At the same time it looks different on each side.
Zafferano. Linear hanging light fixtures.
Linear hanging fixtures are often a combination of nearly identical small pendant lamps that mix perfectly in an interior.
Sometimes they serve as a single fixture, sometimes several.
Zafferano.
Zafferano. Space Theme.
The space theme has been popular since the time when designers came up with nightlights for children.
But now it is evolving, harmoniously integrated into the styles of minimalism and futurism in adult interiors and looks much more luxurious.
Knikerboker.
Knikerboker.
Knikerboker. Minimalism of fine lines.
Fine lines – black iron, gold-plated metal, pseudo-industrial pendant for a lamp in the style of an ordinary light bulb – can be found in the collections of almost all brands that make luminaires.
Cangini&Tucci.
CanginiTucci. Progressive asymmetry.
Asymmetric fixtures are steadily gaining the market.
Breaking all stereotypes they combine not only different elements, but also different materials, shades, methods and technologies.
Including a variant where only half or even a third of the luminaire belongs to its function – to light, and the rest is solid decor.
Cangini&Tucci.
Zafferano. Glamorous classics.
Classic crystal chandeliers are now experiencing a second birth.
Not only their appearance is changing, leaving the correct graceful silhouette of the XVIII century to descendants, but also the materials of production.
For example, blown glass chandeliers of this form have become incredibly popular.
Sylcom.
Cangini&Tucci.
Cangini&Tucci. Glossy Gilding.
Glossy glass fixtures with tinting are in fashion now – gold, silver, copper, brass, with the effect of ombré.
Many of them have a slight vintage or antique patina, scuffs and other imitations of aging.
Cangini&Tucci.
Cangini&Tucci. Colored and multicolored glass. Colored glass is more popular today than ever.
Most often we’re talking about very interesting and unusual tones – shades of strawberry ice cream, mysterious emerald, ripe October pumpkin.
There are also restrained variations, such as coffee, which look no less spectacular.
In some fixtures we noticed an ombré effect or a combination of several shades.
Zafferano.
Sylcom.
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