With spirited jubilation among a vibrant backdrop of unbridled luxury and imagination, Luminaire hailed 50 years of gracing the public with timeless design unmatched in quality and rigorous aesthetic on the 4th and 5th of December during Design Miami 2024. While looking back on decades of design that refreshes the soul with surprising geometries and sumptuous materiality, Luminaire in collaboration with SantambrogioMilano, MDF Italia, and Acerbis crafted holistic design encounters that gaze toward a future fashioned by the unexpected, astounding synergies and remarkable creativity. This was likewise a time to celebrate Luminaire’s recent expansion with Interni, and the community the two design leaders forge from deep respect for that which is beautiful and well-made, implementing total design experiences in commercial and residential milieus across the globe while transforming lives with the magnetic and extraordinary power of the best in modern and contemporary design, sensuous and unique.
During the events, at the Luminaire Lab in the heart of the Miami Design District, Luminaire and Interni unveiled a captivating community mural that transformed the column of the building into a festive and inspiring testament to the profound connection between people and design, as illustrated characters interact with historic pieces and one another in a mélange of camaraderie and curiosity. Meanwhile, window displays arrested the senses with multimedia exhibits that juxtaposed icons of design like Shiro Kuramata’s dynamic Revolving Cabinet, a marvel of cantilever excellence in the Panton Chair, and the Campana Brother’s Vermehla with contemporary styles like Front’s Balancing Boxes, which defy gravity as they appear to float or fall through space. Films that sing to the robust impact of Luminaire design throughout its 50-year history and the global reach of the Luminaire and Interni design network enchanted the eyes with charismatic aplomb, seducing spectators inward to uncover the magic of an all-encompassing, carefully curated landscape of notable works conceived by design legends and contemporary tastemakers alike.
Once inside the Luminaire Lab, guests mingled and exchanged stories over drinks, while basking in the joyous illumination of works from MDF Italia and Acerbis, many of which were initially revealed at the 2024 Salone del Mobile in Milan. In an enchanting exhibit “Array of Emotions,” MDF Italia and Acerbis highlighted the emotional depth that saturates well-designed, impassioned environments that eliminate the superfluous and leave behind only that which is most beautiful and essential, an enduring quest for the precise forms and distinctive style that flavor the moods and moments of life with artful poise and functional ease. The Array sofa from the transdisciplinary, dialogue-driven firm Snøhetta became the celebrated star of the MDF Italia space, a modular unit that enveloped the atmosphere with sinuous luxury and stunning innovation, seamlessly uniting aesthetic splendor with exquisite comfort in a new approach to sofa design. And from Acerbis, matter, color, and light harmonized mystically in the feted Lokum series of side tables, designed by the prescient and provocative Sabine Marcelis. With astonishing plays of light and shade, the reflective surface of the tables exuded a sublime ethereality. Other pieces from Luminaire, like the museum-quality Corallo chair from the Campana Brothers, and the historically relevant Alluniago stool from the legendary Castiglioni Brothers, flanked the exhibition space and nestled “Array of Emotions” through the threads of time, an homage to design history alongside the commanding insights of tomorrow.
At Luminaire’s Flagship showroom in Coral Gables, the celebration took a mesmerizingly sleek and enlightened turn with “The Scent of Glass,” an exhibition from internationally acclaimed glass makers SantambrogioMilano that reimagined the beguiling power of the translucent and how glass itself can convert living spaces into events at once emotive and sublime, like breathing a precious essence and releasing the imagination. Surprising forms adorned the exhibit; an entirely crystalline ping pong and billiard table illustrated the capabilities of glass to straddle dimensions within space, and how that which is clean and minimal elevate simplicity of style to that of magnificence and luxury. By embracing the formal purity of essential design and the bewitching sovereignty of the transparent, Luminaire with SantambrogioMilano rejoiced in that which is timeless and alluring and spoke to the harmony between objects and the environment, an ethos of all-day living that bridges the poetic with the practical.
While honoring and applauding 50 years of pioneering benchmarks in great design, Luminaire likewise kept an eye on a future of electrifying innovation, expanding its US influence to a global network of logistic hubs and admired brands in partnership with Interni, a leader in cutting edge design experiences situated in Milan, London, and Dubai. In collaboration with respected architects and designers, Interni has furnished Europe, the UK, and the Middle East with unparalleled service since 1933, a monument to Italian excellence without compromise. Now united with a shared synergy of high-quality craftsmanship, immersive environments, and commercial success, Luminaire and Interni represent two industry revolutionaries that reimagine one’s living space as both a sanctuary and a communal fete, the nucleus of one’s soul as enriched through the vivacity of poignant and visually soothing design.
As the past 50 years have engaged the vanguard of what is most soulful and arresting in design today, the next 50 years at Luminaire and Interni promise to affect lives for the better, shrouding the emotions and enlivening the mind with the exuberance and serenity of a total design experience, inviting and affective.
December 2024
