About 9 years ago Jessica found ourselves lost in Venice wandering down small street after small street and in our travels happened upon  a showroom in production. What caught our attention was a door that had been removed from the façade and was making its way down the street for repair. As is our fashion after a few questions we were invited on a tour of the remodel and left fascinated with the beauty we had seen and energized by the craftsmanship and the novelties most specifically how they were laying down the Terazzo floor. This historic antique villa was to be the new home of Bergamo Textiles. This trip Bergamo & Rubelli have again made an appearance. Bergamo has joined forces with the new face of Leucos as the FDV has recently acquired leucos and are working in cooperation with Rubelli in the presentation of one of their newest lamps the Damasco, but our connection to this new allegiance are even more intertwined as Euroface previously was the means for our access to these products and the fabric itself, Faust is one I personally just used on a project for use as pillow fabric. This is the first of many associated lamps Rubelli hopes to do in collaboration with FDV.  Life is funny!

Alia Meyer Signing off

anyone who knows me knows i’m a huge fan of words and using script in design. Llooking around the show yeasterday and today it was hard to miss the many fixtures who used words to add a game or prove a point to their fixtures… here is a sampling of what i found.

in a globally televised event Leucos unveiled its newest addition to the collection the Moai at Euroluce. the first day of the show this city of Moai was covered with black cloth and the booth cloaked in darkness. at 12 noon a model arrived to undress the lights pc. by pc. when they were all uncovered the lights one by one turned on. a camera now points to the onlookers who can see the new light simaltaneously on display in 14 other places worldwide. at each station a camera brings the viewer to euroluce and from euroluce we can see all 14 places around the world… now this is taking advantage of technology.

today i hit the big guns… flos, luceplan, you know the players and like the other million people walked around their sparsely set up stalls and was transported into the reality they wanted to create for me… there was a lot of LED technology on display which one would expect since Europe has essentially aboandoned the incandescent bulb and will soon say goodbye as well the the halogen lamp.

i also hit Terzani and was taken by Marco on a great tour of the lines now represented by Art Home Art

In the afternoon i also hit Leucos and their new and extended family… tune in tomorrow for more there

putting together the list of parties for tonight as i sit in the lufthansa lounge in Frankfurt waiting for my flight to Milan. 

so far on the list:
Roberto Cavalli cocktail party at his salon, Terzani Artists party and 60 years of minotti Cusine … should make for an interesting time jetLag and all. 

hooray the day has almost arrived. stay tuned for all kinds of great photos and reports of the newest lighting trends and the coolest things i can find.

11 days and counting

i felt like a countdown was in order. Euroluce is almost here and as silly as it sounds i’m starting to dream about lighting… stay tuned soon for some up to date glimpses into the lights of the future!

everyday i see new lights and can’t help but start with a comparison of what sits in front of my face agianst what i’ve seen before and then, well then i want to change it… what would happen if…. or what about changing that…. it’s a sickness i know but a lot of fun… so i ask you, if you could design a light what would it be???

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I’m not sure if everyone saw the great rugs the gang here at Lunaria designed. talk about taking inspiration from the everyday.