Spanish Design Proves its Resilience
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Spanish design brands are ready and able to fulfill orders in the U.S.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Spanish design brands are ready and able to fulfill orders in the U.S.
As manufacturers increasingly integrate LEDs and other tech into light fixtures, they are becoming sleeker and more understated than ever.
Lutron focuses on sustainability strategies with a people-first approach, where energy savings are part of an overall plan.
Human centric lighting helps colleges and universities keep students and teachers happy and support their wellbeing.
The collection, called Archetype, makes its debut in an iconic Modernist home.
Recent lighting products can take a minimal form, seemingly dissolving into the spatial ether, or manifest more arrestingly.
The Swedish superstore’s releases for the new year include sound-absorbing panels, speaker-studded lamps, and a lot of eye-catching pattern.
A Valencia studio’s products draw upon the region’s cross-disciplinary creative networks.
To create the brass form of Parábola, the studio partnered with Pablo Reyes, a Oaxacan metalworker based in Mexico City.
Flexible and elegant lighting solutions can be tough to find, but these designs from the likes of HAY, Pablo, FLOS, and Martinelli Luce shine the way.
At the Milanese fair, the marriage of technological advancement and design innovation was on full display with literal major wattage.
Another hackneyed release aimed at peripatetic minimalists Circ is not: The light’s cheeky proportions direct attention—gently and quite novelly—to its handle.
New lighting products, including from Casper, offer warmer color temperatures, which affect circadian rhythms and wellness in general.
The 30th edition of the biennial Euroluce lighting exhibition promises a refined, contemporary feel.
The Puebla, Mexico–based studio works with local artisans to develop pieces that reference the country’s unique heritage of making while using clean forms that let their materials speak for themselves.
Metropolis interviews experts from Perkins+Will, ZGF, and HOK about navigating the plethora of industry- and product-specific sustainability certifications.
sponsored by: Metropolis magazine, in partnership with Lutron, presents The Right Environment: a series of profiles featuring experts who are helping to make buildings better for occupants. For the second installment of the series, Metropolis caught up with design researcher and consultant, Lisa Heschong. Heschong…
sponsored by: Cirio translates directly to “candle” in Spanish. It is a fitting name for the Santa & Cole family of fixtures that embodies the likeness of this most ancient light source’s…
This selection of buildings—ranging from Atlanta to Kansas City to Basel, Switzerland—highlight stand-out materials and products.
Au courant echoes of Michael Thonet’s No. 14 chair, with its strongly vegetal origins, have cropped up in cane, bamboo, and bentwood products.