Lighting trend: architectural and moving

Lamps that are the protagonists and blend with the architecture that surrounds them.

The new trend in architectural lighting is that of a light that blends and camouflages with the surrounding elements, as in the case of, for example, Caveau but also Vera.

Let’s talk about moving light, an extremely important element now. In both public and private spaces we no longer speak of a static light, we like to live, coexist and work, with a light that can vary according to the moments, on which we can intervene by acting on the characteristics of the lighting body.

A huge change from the cold and static lights of the past.

This is the road, together with that of strong personalization, beaten today and for the future: the lamp, or the chandelier or the wall lamp, no longer seen as simple light sources but as true furnishing elements of home.

This is part of a somewhat general current. In the past, when we talked about the interiors, the protagonists were the furniture, then everything else came, the accessories, such as the bright ones, the windows rather, the curtains rather than the walls themselves or the doors. They were considered secondary elements, today instead they have become important actors in the realization of an interior.

Thinking about the past, the doors were normally painted, today there are very decorated doors, with color and more; before the walls were white or beige or gray, now it is no coincidence that there is a great return of the boiserie as of the upholstery and decorations.

This means that all the elements that make up the furniture are the protagonists.

In lighting, there are highly shouted protagonists, the decorative lamps, as in the case of Cristalglob, Canaletto or Hula Hoop, or the more discreet protagonists, integrated into the architecture, as in the case of Vera rather than Caveau.

They are two very specific ways that may seem different but eventually converge.

Giulio Cappellini, Art Director of Icone Luce.