Lighting

Two new additions to the kreon esprit product range see the light of day

Two new additions to the kreon esprit product range see the light of day, a redesigned standing light and a brand-new desk light. Each of these newly developed luminaires feature the same signature slim-lined rotatable lamp heads of the original design. Available in standard black and white finishes, plus newly released eye-catching metallic versions in gold, bronze or nickel-plated.

The design update of kreon esprit floor comes with a round base, which doubles as a cable depot, and a push-dim button on top of the vertical rod. In this way, ease of use and design are perfectly combined. The two lamp heads can be positioned individually to aim the light beam wherever you require; Highlighting a work of art in your interior with the top light, while providing light at table level with the lower one. kreon esprit desk is the product range’s little brother. Although small in size, kreon esprit desk harnesses the same performant lamp head of its larger counterparts. The lamp head can be positioned to fulfill your needs. At full brightness as a desk light during a hard day’s work, or dimmed using the built-in touchdim button for some bedtime reading. kreon esprit range originally consisted of three different luminaires with minimalistic, tubular lampheads mounted on a slim rod. One, standing light with a massive square foot; the second, a vertical ceiling-mounted fixture and the latest, a horizontal pendant lamp with up to four luminaire heads.

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Balcony lights from Albert as ceiling and wall models

According to the lease agreement, balconies and loggias are part of the general living space. For this reason, as a tenant you are also allowed to install your own lamps on the existing power connections. Do you want to make structural changes to the balcony or loggia? Then you must ask the landlord for permission. In most cases, however, this is not a problem for minor changes. Under the above-mentioned conditions, you can quickly and easily beautify your balcony. Take a wall or ceiling lamp from Albert Leuchten. Our cast aluminum or stainless steel lights are timelessly discreet and fit perfectly into the existing design. The linear lamps provide a pleasant warm white light even on balconies. Thus, you spare your eyes during evening games or browsing hours and provide more coziness at the barbecue. We offer balcony lights for the wall or ceiling in various shapes and colors. You also have a wide choice of glass types. Lamps with opal glass provide flat and glare-free light. Spotlights with borosilicate glass provide punctual brightness. For example, you can put decorations or plants on your balcony in the right light.

Balcony lamps as atmospheric accent lighting

In addition to basic wall and ceiling lighting, you can also install additional accent lighting on your balcony. This even works if there are no connections for balcony lights with electricity so far. Spike or ground spotlights from Albert lamps have a 2.5 meter long supply line. This is equipped with a standard safety plug. This makes it possible to accommodate the lamps even in larger planters or window boxes. Many balcony lamps LED from our manufacture are dimmable and swiveling. So you can design a personal lighting concept for your balcony or loggia. With Albert lamps, your outdoor living room will become your new favorite place. Even if the balcony spotlights are not covered, safety is guaranteed at all times. Albert balcony lights with LED light bodies have a high IP protection class. This means that the products are protected against moisture and penetrating foreign bodies. Not only our surface-mounted ceiling spotlights and our area spotlights also score with integrated surge protection.

Balcony lights from Albert as ceiling and wall models

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LZF Lamps presents the design lamp Swirl

Swirl excites the eye with its eddying and whirling folds, their twisting twirl a sensuous feat. Designed by Ray Power, Swirl is an accomplished pendant, its form thoughtfully considered and sculptured. Power’s designs are typically based on geometry and his predilection for creating three-dimensional forms from flat materials (wood veneer). Swirl is no exception, its precise contours brought to life in stereo.

With a soulful character and presence, the Swirl pendant lamp will vibe well with any interior. When a light is striking from every angle, one might expect more than a hint of conceit. And yet Swirl is wholly modest, its beauty inspiring and uplighting. The Swirl pendant was accorded a Special Mention by the German Design Council.

With its filigree, organically designed lamps, the Spanish manufacturer LZF Lamps not only succeeds in conveying Mediterranean lightness, but also in drawing attention to a material that rarely plays a role in luminaire design: Wood. The detailed creations are an expression of great imagination and bring traditional craftsmanship and technology into harmony. The fine veneer is the basis for many designs of the international design team. With each new lamp, LZF Lamps proves that light and wood are made for each other.

LZF Lamps presents the design lamp Swirl

 

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Albert outdoor spotlights – for unusual lighting ideas

Spotlights and outdoor spotlights illuminate noteworthy areas of your outdoor facilities and immerse them in focused cones of light. For example, you can put flower columns, art objects, trees, walls or facades in the focus of the viewer. Illuminate prominent points of your garden. Create a magnificent lighting concept. For your lighting ideas, Albert lamps offers dozens of spotlights for outdoor use. Each design is suitable for a different application here. The German lighting manufacturer Albert Lighting produces outdoor spotlights for noble lighting effects on facades. Surely you have already stood at a historical castle complex. And looked fascinated at the illuminated walls of quarry stone, sandstone or basalt. Spots are particularly effective in the evening light. They ensure that facades appear particularly sublime and imposing due to the interplay of light and shadow.
This also works with exterior walls of hotels, restaurants, corporate or residential buildings. With wall spotlights from Albert lamps, your facade becomes a real bright spot.
To plan your personal ensemble for masonry lighting, our spotlights are suitable for wall mounting. You can achieve a particularly impressive effect with Albert wall floodlights with two-sided light emission. These outdoor spotlights with LED lamps are available from us with completely different light emission angles.
Albert recessed ceiling spotlights and recessed floor spotlights for outdoor integration fit perfectly into the overall visual appearance of gardens, house entrances or terraces. You can have our LED ceiling lamps mounted on the roof overhang, for example. The lamps also cut a fine figure on brick canopies or covered terraces. With recessed spotlights for the ground you frame ponds, terraces, barbecue corners or play areas in the home lawn. Of course, all our ceiling and ground recessed spotlights are weather and dust resistant. Albert in-ground spotlights can also withstand loads of up to 2,000 kilograms. This means they can also be installed on courtyard driveways, at carports or in a playground or sports field. Ground spotlights can significantly enhance certain areas outside. Do you need a mobile lighting concept in the garden, which can be changed quickly and spontaneously? Then you are well served with Albert Spießstrahlern. We offer the variable lamps in different colors and optionally with external rotary dimmer to control the light intensity. Most of the spit spotlights from our production are equipped with a rotatable luminous body. Therefore you can direct the light cone individually to different sized eye-catchers – be it rose bushes, statues, columns or decorative figures.

If you feel like it, simply place our spit spotlights somewhere else in the garden more often. Thanks to plug and 2.5 meter long cable, the mobile spit spotlights are 100 percent variable as far as their place of use is concerned.
Especially in the house entrance area, outdoor spotlights with motion detectors are very much in demand. No wonder, because this type of lighting is incredibly practical. You enter the driveway to the front door and, as if remote-controlled, your wall spotlights switch on. After a few minutes, the light automatically goes out again, which significantly reduces the power consumption in the outdoor area.

But a spotlight with motion detector can do much more. If intruders or thieves approach your house, they will be deterred if the light suddenly comes on. Albert spotlights are made of high-quality materials such as stainless steel or cast aluminum. That is why the products are extremely durable. In the unlikely event of a defect, you can easily replace the installed LED components.
Here we offer you an after-sales guarantee for many years. Even the reflector lamps of our rotating and swivel spotlights can be replaced if necessary. Albert lamps play in the top league in the field of LED technology. That is why we offer you spotlights with high economic efficiency, long service life and excellent color rendering.

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Brokis

The Brokis Mona Family a new concept of interpenetrating forms

The Mona lighting collection by Brokis, designed by our art director Lucie Koldova in the year 2014. The light source boldly passes through the generous volume of smooth handblown glass, underscoring the trembling tension inherent in the entire design. The essence of the collection lies primarily in the original design and combination of refined materials. The Brokis Mona family encompasses several different sizes and types of lights, which means it is well suited to a wide range of uses. Variability is ensured mainly thanks to the size, design, and colour options of the individual models. In keeping with its constant technological and innovative development, the entire Brokis Mona collection recently received exceptional upgrades in the form of a special connector and anodized aluminium in place of the earlier wooden components. A new colour option for the handblown glass, brown smoke, is now available across the entire family. The Brokis Mona S offers the option of a table version and a wall version. In the Mona Medium collection, there are floor, pendent, and wall lights, whereas Mona L is available in floor and pendent variants. The dimensions of the Mona XL, which is manufactured in a pendent version, are truly grand. Unsurprisingly, the piece has earned the master glassmakers much well-deserved admiration.

The Brokis Mona Family a new concept of interpenetrating forms

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A meeting place for modern lighting design

GERA Leuchten, a company based in Thuringia, Germany, has created a new meeting place at its headquarters in Sankt Gangloff for anyone interested in modern lighting design. The new GERA Lichtforum shows on 1,200 square meters the effect lamps and illuminated furniture in minimalist design can have on interior architecture. In addition to the exhibition areas, the new building houses the sales department, the warehouse for the online store, conference and training rooms, and a kitchen and outdoor grill for events.

The official inauguration, which was celebrated on November 7, 2019, marked the start of a series of events that focus on light and design just as much as communication and enjoyment. And thus in deliberate proximity to the holiday of reunification, which also played an important role in the corporate history of GERA Leuchten: without the merging of East and West, the company “would not exist in the form in which it is successful today,” as Hening Pölitz emphasizes. Consequently, the approximately 100 business partners and friends of the company also came from all parts of Germany.

To feed the visitors appropriately for the occasion, GERA lamps had invited Mario Pattis. Mario Pattis is the first chef born in East Germany who was awarded one of the coveted stars of the Guide Michelin after the reunification. Entertainment and a good mood were provided by a live graffiti sprayer from Gera as well as a saxophonist, who later brought the guests onto the dance floor as a DJ.

The inauguration ceremony was the culmination of a project that had begun in 2016: at that time, GERA Leuchten purchased the site, which is located in the immediate vicinity of its headquarters. With an investment of around one million euros, the GERA Lichtforum was built on the 4,000 square meter site and is now available to our customers from near and far. It was a very round evening with many conversations and contacts in the elegantly furnished Lichtforum. “What made me particularly happy is that good friendships have now developed from the long-standing business relationships – and many business partners have accepted because we have known each other for 30 years.” So while the Light Forum is a strong signal for the future of GERA lamps, the inauguration also showed the value of the past.

A meeting place for modern lighting design

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The Maigrau Linn High Lamp at the Hotel Hirschen Horn in Germany

In the midst of the enchanting landscape of the Höri peninsula on Lake Constance, in the Hotel Hirschen Horn – Refugium am See, our LINN lamp is used and blends harmoniously into the nature-loving ambience. With a fine touch of Japanese living art, it gives the room a play of light and shadow. LINN is the perfect example of how we translate our passion for the natural and honest by using natural materials of the best origin. Our philosophy “with light & love” is felt in the room through the Maigrau LINN lamp, creating a unique and cozy atmosphere.
Due to its adaptability in materiality and color, the luminaire can be seamlessly integrated into various interior design styles and concepts.
Experience the Maigrau Linn Lamp in the new feel-good retreat with a dreamlike lake view and traditional inn with excellent gourmet cuisine in the heart of the Höri peninsula on Lake Constance.

The Maigrau Linn High Lamp at the Hotel Hirschen Horn in Germany  The Maigrau Linn High Lamp at the Hotel Hirschen Horn in Germany

Knikerboker

The Crash Collection from the lamp designer Knikerboker

Each lamp, with its unique design, becomes a piece of art that is different from the others. The processing continues applying with the handmade technique gold, silver, copper or bronze leaf, joint and combined with paintings of various colors. The collection is illuminated by a reflected light, composed of halogen bulbs or LED technologies, which emanates a refraction of a thousand facets depending on the finish of the lamp. The design was conceived for projects in restaurants, hotels and big structures, adapting to many types of interior design. From the need of contract lighting, the entire collection was developed, consisting of wall, ceiling and suspension lamps of different sizes and finishes, so that it takes on also a residential connotation.

The Crash Collection from the lamp designer Knikerboker

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Light bridge by GERA lamps wins the German Design Award

Every year, the German Design Council presents the German Design Award, one of the most coveted prizes in the design landscape. For 2023, a top-class jury again selected those products from over 4,000 that reflect the most significant design trends. One of the winners of the year is the Lichtsystem 6 light bridge by GERA Leuchten, a multifunctional lamp for the kitchen island.

The award is another highlight in the design history of GERA Leuchten: The company has already received over a dozen awards for its minimalist, timeless designs. “Innovation, service and quality are the hallmarks of all our products,” says Hening Pölitz, owner and managing director of GERA Leuchten. “Values that I personally stand for. We focus on continuity and consistent brand management – also for contemporary products such as our light shelf. Our customers appreciate this attitude and it also convinced the jury of the German Design Award.”

At GERA Leuchten, designer Thomas Ritt is responsible for the design strategy and consistency in design. For 25 years, together with Hening Pölitz, he has ensured a uniform conceptual and design development at GERA Leuchten, through which the company has developed from a supplier to a well-known and recognised lamp manufacturer. “Our products today are recognisable, clearly distinguishable and unique,” says Thomas Ritt, “and they thus ensure an unmistakable brand identity.”

Like his other designs, the Light Bridge is a symbol of minimal functionalism. It is derived from the GERA Lighting System 6, which, as a modular profile system, has developed enormously variably since 2009 – from under-cabinet and pendant lamps to light shelves for use next to furniture. As a light bridge, Lighting System 6 is the perfect lighting concept for a type of interior design that reflects both trend and necessity: “Living space is becoming scarcer, and floor plans are thus becoming smaller,” explains Thomas Ritt. “If you combine kitchen and dining room, you achieve an efficient and communicative use of space. The kitchen island serves several purposes here. It divides the space, acts as a boundary and creates lines of sight.”

The light bridge is the ideal light source for such interior designs, as it combines the illumination of the workplace and the surrounding space with the storage and provision of accessories. It carries and organises accessories, presents ingredients and can be integrated, is variable in size, precise and has a high-quality finish. The excellent lighting system is available with anodised surfaces in black, aluminium silver or in a stainless steel shade. Light colour and light intensity can be individually controlled.

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Penthouse with charisma: Licht im Raum equips roof structure

Anyone who lives in Düsseldorf knows it: the Bilker Bunker, a legacy from the Second World War and for a long time the city’s problem child. What to do with it? Since the mid-1990s, the facade has been adorned with a huge mural, a memorial to flight, expulsion and the often uncertain departure of distant cultures for a new world. When the building, which is now a listed monument, was upgraded for new uses after many years of discussion, the facade remained largely untouched. The changes took place inside – but especially above. For on the roof a spectacular superstructure was created that provides space for five separate penthouses. The seven floors below are reserved for a variety of uses, such as a cultural center, a music bar, a gallery and studios.

The project was planned and realized by the Düsseldorf architectural firm Anders wohnen in der Stadt, which had acquired the building in 2016 with its own project development company called KüssdenFrosch. A coherent approach: the sale of the penthouses served to finance the cultural conversion of the lower two levels and the two basement floors. Three of the bunker floors were to be made available for commercial use. Despite the rededication of the elevated bunker, the original character of the building had to remain. While the cubes, each two-story and constructed in wood, with living spaces of 97 to 164 m2 on the roof represent a clear break, the interventions in the existing building are kept to a minimum. To ensure that all areas of use harmonize well side by side, the upper floors were accessed beyond to the courtyard side via a new staircase with elevator tower

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When furnishing the show apartment, the architects worked closely with the lighting designers from Dinnebier Licht. Since 1956, the Solingen-based company has specialized in the manufacture of high-quality design and custom luminaires and produces a whole range of characterful luminaire collections under the brand name Licht im Raum. In the sample penthouse on the bunker roof, the Ocular Spot ceiling spotlights in the hallway, the Ocular 4 LED pendant lamp above the kitchen island and the Big Moons and Glass Moons 3 pendant lamps are used. The latter with E27 lamp holder, while the other lamps are equipped with high-quality technical lenses. In 1996, Licht im Raum was the first manufacturer ever to launch products of this type on the market – at that time still with halogen light sources – and thus triggered a real trend in lighting design, as Managing Director Daniel Klages recounts.

In many cases, the idea was adopted by other manufacturers. A characteristic feature of the Licht im Raum Ocular series is that the lamps emit light both directly and indirectly and are absolutely glare-free. In the meantime, the principle has long been further developed with first-class LED components. Of course, the lights can be dimmed, for an excellent light quality Licht im Raum works closely with the world market leader Citizen Electronic from Japan.

Another focus of the manufactory Licht im Raum is the omnipresent topic of sustainability. Daniel Klages explains what this means for the lighting design as follows: “The decisive factor for us is where the components for production come from and where manufacturing takes place in the first place. Our goal is to source as much as possible from within a radius of 50 km, and production takes place exclusively in our manufactory in Solingen.” Only a few parts have to travel further: the porcelain parts from Fürstenberg, for example, the glass lampshades from the Czech Republic, or the installed chips from Japan and China. The technical lenses come from southern Germany. “The proximity to our main suppliers allows us to realize special configurations in the shortest possible time,” Daniel Klages proudly emphasizes.