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In 2014, product designer Miki Inoue joined her architect friend Lea Yuko Ikeda to create their business Design Kiiro with the goal of designing, manually crafting and selling geometric light fixtures that resemble works of art. Although they are based in São Paulo, Brazil, where they were born and raised—Miki’s parents were born in Japan, while Lea has a Japanese mot...

During the Monaco Yacht Show in September 2019, we met Andreas Klug, one of the creative directors at Preciosa. In this interview, Klug discusses the challenges, demands and opportunities that exist when designing for high-end. Time dwindles, year after year, shedding the layers of style like autumn leaves falling to prepare for a new season; we see styles evolve...

HISLE is delighted to welcome students from Boulle Design School, to our workshops in Vannes and Lyon. Elisa and Jules are preparing for their National Diploma for Art and Design Professions. As well as discovering the company and the HISLE lamp production process (one-offs and series), they were able to explore metalworking as applied to lighting. The Boulle Design Scho...

After his studies in design Colin Dinley decided to hitchhike to Italy and found himself (and future wife),near Florence at Sesto Fiorentino. At that time, in the 80’s it was hiving with artisan workshops making ceramics, brass and glass. After a period of 10 years ( and two sons) in this artisan beehive he decided, encouraged by his wife , to go it alone with his firs...

A unique place where students, professionals and entrepreneurs guided by innovation can meet to interact and collaborate. This is the new H-FARM Campus, the revolutionary platform of one of the main companies in the European digital economy landscape. Thanks to the expansion project, the technological and educational hub of H-FARM Campus is now sustainable and self-suffi...

70 years ago the company, initially a family business, started manufacturing ballasts for the newly introduced fluorescent light fitting technology: in 1950 Dr. Walter Zumtobel founded “Elektrogeräte und Kunstharzpresswerk W. Zumtobel KG”. At the time, the replacement of incandescent lamps by fluorescent lamps marked the beginning of a new era in lighting technology and ...

When you open a catalogue of luminaires, we are accustomed to seeing nomenclatures and symbols that perhaps sometimes we don't know how to interpret. Two of those parameters that more defines a luminaire are the IK e IP of the fixtures. But, what do they really mean? Do we know how to interpret it? In the following lines we will define these parameters that will help us ...