Photos: Maxime Verret
An minimalist installation celebrates multiple forms of design
French luxury house, Hermès, best known for its handmade leather handbags and luggage, presented its 2025 home collection of colorful furniture, dinnerware, and soft goods at Milan Design Week in April. For the fifth year in a row, the fashion brand paired with design firm L’Observatoire International to create an illuminated installation. This year’s presentation, by L’Observatoire International Director Hervé Descottes and Hermès Home Division Directors Alexis Fabry and Charlotte Macaux Perelman, focused on themes of lightness, color, and reflection. With white geometric frames and translucent technicolor elements, the lighting scheme allows for pools of glowing color to form beneath the suspended structures and highlight new home goods.
Photo: Maryn Devine
From December 2024 through the end of March 2025, Spaghetti Chorus, by design studio Daily tous les jours, was on view in the atrium of the National Gallery in Ottawa, Canada. The 140 continuous meters (~460 ft) of luminous “noodles” acted as a messaging system: as guests spoke into one of the two microphones placed below the installation, LED tubes slowly shifted in color and guests’ voices transformed into melodic sounds. The interactive artwork is part of the design firm’s “Hello” series that explores human connection and will be on view again in the same location for the 2025 winter months.
The ERCO Light Factory presented “ERCO Light Box” at Fuorisalone 2025, a special exhibit at the Triennale Museum in Milan, Italy, in April. The installation featured selected images from 40 years of curated ERCO photography in a minimalist, luminous space and was a play on the backlit table as a working tool for selecting slides for advertisements and images in print media. The photographs, and their presentation, offered unique perspectives on the creative process and light as part of immersive experiences and architectural design.
They Said It:
“Museum illumination typically employs three key layers from above or within, including ambient, accent, and task lighting”
Amy Nelson, “Momentous and Momentary”
Leviton completed a $25 million expansion of its Fuquay-Varina, NC, fiber optic manufacturing plant.
Volumes Two and Three of Collected Light, a series of books from Light Collective and Women in Lighting, which highlights the work of women light artists, will soon be available for purchase at www.womeninlighting.com. The third book in the series, which takes a special look at women in entertainment lighting, is supported by Arton Lighting.
Moment Factory, a multidisciplinary entertainment studio specializing in immersive environments that weave light, sound, and video, has been named one of the “Most Innovative Companies” for the third time by Fast Company, a global business media brand.
Savant, a leader in smart home and smart power technology, has announced native cloud integration with ClimateMaster’s heat pumps, allowing for “full climate control” within the Savant App.
SCHONBEK and Modern Forms opened a 10,000-sq-ft showroom inside the International Home Furnishings Center in High Point, NC.
Seen by Staff
Multiple vine-like, metal chandeliers inside the dining room at Le Sirenuse Hotel in Positano, Italy, each hold 18 real candles. It takes the hotel staff approximately 4 hours to light the chandeliers before each dinner service.
Photos: Michele Zimmerman
