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Showcasing the world's most innovative designers, iconic furniture, and elevated interiors, offering inspiration for modern, design‑driven living.

Luminaire Chicago Showroom.

Inside Luminaire Chicago: Italian Design in River North Since 1989

Since 1989, Luminaire Chicago has occupied a converted timber loft in River North, bringing world-class Italian and international furniture to the Midwest across three levels and 21,000 square feet. The showroom is home to dedicated monobrand spaces for Flexform and Henge, alongside collections from Cassina, Poltrona Frau, Living Divani, and more. Full interior design services are available for residential and commercial projects of any scale.

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Eileen Gray's E 1027 Table

Eileen Gray's E 1027 Table: A Design Conceived for Living

Eileen Gray designed the E 1027 table in 1927 not as a decorative gesture but as a tool for living, a cantilevered tubular steel ring that slides over a bed or sofa and locks at any height the body requires. It was furniture conceived around a person, and nearly a century later that logic remains radical. The story behind the table is inseparable from the story of Gray herself: an architect and designer whose recognition arrived, painfully, decades after it was due.

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LC14 Tabouret Cabanon

LC14 Tabouret Cabanon: Le Corbusier's Smallest Architecture

In 1952, Le Corbusier built himself a cabin on the French Riviera measuring 3.66 by 3.66 meters. Every object inside it was an argument. The LC14 Tabouret Cabanon, reissued by Cassina in the I Maestri collection, is the smallest of those arguments and perhaps the most complete.

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Zanotta Sacco Bean Chair.

Sacco Chair by Zanotta: The 1968 Object That Refused to Be Furniture

In 1968, three Turin designers proposed a chair with no frame, no fixed angle, and no prescribed posture. The Zanotta Sacco bean bag, filled with expanded polystyrene pellets, adapts to whoever sits inside it, a counter-cultural proposition that entered MoMA's permanent collection and has never left production. Here is why it still earns its place in a serious interior.

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Edra monobrand space in Luminaire Coral Gables.

Inside Luminaire Coral Gables: The Showroom and Its Design Services

Since 1984, the Coral Gables flagship has been South Florida's most consequential address for Italian and international furniture, lighting, and objects. At 18,000 square feet, it is both a living catalog and a working design studio, where the collections of Living Divani, Edra, and Cassina share space with a full suite of professional design services.

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Wishbone Chairs.

The Wishbone Chair: Hans Wegner's CH24 and the Art of Making

Since 1950, the CH24 has remained in uninterrupted production at Carl Hansen & Søn, a record that few chairs in the modern canon can match. Hans J. Wegner distilled decades of study into a single, resolved form: a Y-shaped back rail, a steam-bent top, and 120 meters of hand-woven paper cord. The making is the argument.

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Cassina Chair Tamburound Chair - Cassina Chairs Guide

Cassina Chairs - The Collectors' Guide

Few furniture makers have shaped the chair as a cultural object the way Cassina has. From their earliest collaborations with the European avant-garde to their ongoing stewardship of the twentieth century's most consequential seating designs, the Meda-based manufacturer remains the standard against which Italian furniture brands are measured. This guide surveys the Cassina chairs we carry and the ideas embedded in each one.

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Edra on the Rocks Sofa

On the Rocks by Edra: Francesco Binfaré's Geology of Rest

Francesco Binfaré's On the Rocks for Edra begins not with a frame but with an idea: that a sofa can hold the unpredictable weight of a boulder and the give of a cushion at once. This is a piece that refuses the conventions of modular seating and proposes something more original in their place. Each element is both complete in itself and part of a larger, quietly dramatic composition.

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Bocci 14P at Luminaire Showroom Event.

The 14p Portable Lamp: Bocci's Cast-Glass Sphere, Untethered

The 14p Portable Lamp by Omer Arbel translates Bocci's celebrated cast-glass sphere into a cordless instrument, preserving every hand-formed irregularity of the original 14 Series while gaining the freedom to move. It is a quiet argument that portability and material rigor are not mutually exclusive.

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Flos Arco Lamp.

The Arco Lamp: Achille Castiglioni's Arc Over Sixty Years

In 1962, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni solved a problem most designers hadn't thought to name: how to light a dining table from the floor, without touching the ceiling. The Arco lamp is their answer, and it has not needed revision. Over sixty years later, it remains one of the most studied objects in postwar Italian design, and one of the most copied.

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Henge Finds a New Home in Chicago at Luminaire

Henge Finds a New Home in Chicago at Luminaire

During NeoCon 2026, we welcomed Henge into our Chicago showroom, marking a new chapter in the brand’s growing presence in the United States.

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Cassina - The LC3 Sofa.

The LC3 Sofa: Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, and Perriand's Grand Confort

Conceived in 1928 as the Grand Confort grand modèle, the LC3 sofa places its cushions inside an exposed tubular steel basket, making structure and comfort visible as separate systems. Nearly a century on, the Cassina I Maestri edition preserves that discipline with exacting precision across frame finishes, cushion constructions, and leather programs. This is the definitive guide to understanding, specifying, and authenticating the LC3.

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Panton Chair by Vitra.

The Panton Chair: Form, Material, and Six Decades of an S-Curve

Verner Panton's cantilevered S-curve, first presented in 1967, remains the clearest argument in furniture history that a chair need not be assembled. Tracing its material evolution from fiberglass-reinforced polyester to dyed-through polypropylene reveals not just manufacturing history, but a shifting conversation about surface, weight, and access to authored design.

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Arclinea Los Angeles: An Evolving Presence

Arclinea Los Angeles: An Evolving Presence

Warm, welcoming, and alive with possibility, the kitchen takes center stage as Luminaire celebrates a new chapter with Arclinea Los Angeles, where Italian craftsmanship, hospitality, and contemporary living converge.

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Selby Lane Residence: Where Architecture Dreams in Landscape

Selby Lane Residence: Where Architecture Dreams in Landscape

Beneath mature trees and shifting light, the Selby Lane Residence reveals a graceful interplay of architecture, landscape, material, and daily life. Reimagined after severe winter rains, the home now illuminates with clarity and purpose.

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Milan Design Week with Luminaire and Interni

A Gesture of Gratitude: Milan Design Week 2026

In the calm serenity that follows Milan Design Week, moments linger. Through Luminaire and Interni, design becomes dialogue, connection, and a lived experience shaped by those who gather, create, and carry it forward.

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Cassina Cab Armchairs

The Cassina Cab Armchair: When Leather Becomes Structure

Mario Bellini's Cab Armchair for Cassina, introduced in 1977, proposed something the furniture world had not seen before: leather not as a covering, but as a load-bearing skin. This is a study in how a single material can rewrite the logic of an entire object, and why that object still holds its ground in contemporary design culture.

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The Hiroshima Chair

The Hiroshima Chair: Naoto Fukasawa's Continuous Gesture in Wood

Naoto Fukasawa's Hiroshima armchair, produced by Maruni since 2008, reduces the wooden chair to its essential gesture: a single sweeping arm-and-back form machined from solid wood, then finished by hand. Understanding how the chair is made, what it becomes over years of use, and where it sits best reveals why it endures as a reference point in contemporary seating.

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B&B Italia at Luminaire Los Angeles

A New Destination for Italian Design: B&B Italia opens at Luminaire Los Angeles

Celebrating the unveiling of collections by B&B Italia, Maxalto, Arclinea, and Azucena, Luminaire Los Angeles presents a sensory dialogue of discovery, craftsmanship, and emotion.

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Papa Bear Project by Sanlorenzo and Luminaire

Papa Bear Yacht: A Floating Retreat of Contemporary Luxury

Papa Bear by Dori Hitti Architects, conceived in collaboration with Interni and Sanlorenzo is a 44-meter superyacht imagined as a floating retreat, an environment shaped less by formality and more by feeling. 

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Luminaire Lab during Design Miami 2025

Design Miami 2025 at Luminaire: A Celebration of Vision, Craft, and Contemporary Culture

On a luminous December evening in the Miami Design District, Luminaire transformed Design Miami 2025 into a living expression of contemporary design, where global collections, creative dialogue, and immersive installations blurred the line between exhibition and experience.

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A Return to Color: Paola Lenti Arrives at Luminaire Menlo Park and San Francisco

A Return to Color: Paola Lenti Arrives at Luminaire Menlo Park and San Francisco

Luminaire is proud to reintroduce Paola Lenti to the Bay Area, culminating in her presence at Luminaire Menlo Park, where her collections unfold in dialogue with light, landscape, and architecture.

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Pre-Construction Summit 2025 Luminaire

Shaping Miami’s Future: PROFILEmiami's 2025 Pre-Construction Summit at Luminaire

Beneath the carefully curated glow of Luminaire Coral Gables, Miami’s foremost architects and developers convene for PROFILEmiami's 2025 Pre-Construction Development Summit, a moment where the future of luxury design is set in motion with enlightenment and innovation.

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B&B Italia in Los Angeles

An Unforgettable Evening in Los Angeles: B&B Italia x Luminaire

B&B Italia arrives at Luminaire Los Angeles in a dialogue with the work of Ian Rayer-Smith, where design and art converge to shape atmosphere, emotion, and space.

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Icons of Design at Luminaire

Icons of Design, Masterful and Moving

Icons of design transform space into a living dialogue, where form carries memory, intention, and quiet innovation. At Luminaire, these works invite us to dwell within a lineage of beauty, purpose, and evolving expression. Shop these pieces at a discount for a limited time.

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Flexform Reveals Refined Expression at Luminaire Chicago

Flexform Reveals Refined Expression at Luminaire Chicago

Flexform radiates at Luminaire Chicago with captivating Indoor and Outdoor Collections, along with a newly unveiled Mono Space. Here good design and cultured living converge in a sublime language of form, material, and atmosphere, inviting a more thoughtful way to inhabit our surroundings. 

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Henge Showroom in Dubai

Henge Arrives in Dubai: A New Chapter in Global Design

Henge arrives in Dubai, where Italian craftsmanship and global design converge, transforming material into meaning and space into a shared, sensory language.

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Innovation in Tradition: Masterpieces of Italian Design

Innovation in Tradition: Masterpieces of Italian Design

From sculptural forms to luminous materials, Italian masters shape atmospheres where beauty and function exist in quiet, enduring harmony.  Within Luminaire’s collection of Italian masterpieces, one can quietly trace the history of design, with each piece acting as a chapter, and each form as a reflection of a legacy still unfolding.

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141 Pendant Light by Bocci in Luminaire Chicago

Light Years in Motion: Celebrating 20 Years of Bocci at NeoCon 2025

At NeoCon 2025, Luminaire and Bocci gather light, material, and thought into a quiet dialogue where Omer Arbel’s luminous forms blur sculpture and atmosphere, inviting a deeper way of seeing.

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Billy Zane at Luminaire Los Angeles

A Tale of Two Cities: Luminaire Celebrates Design and Art on the West Coast

Across two cities, Luminaire gathered a distinct rhythm of voices, where Billy Zane's abstract work lived among elevated design, uniting art, design, and luxury in an immersive experience of community and culture. 

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A Study in Repose: Iconic Chairs at Luminaire That Shaped Modern Living

A Study in Repose: Iconic Chairs at Luminaire That Shaped Modern Living

From Le Corbusier to Jasper Morrison, seating shapes how we gather, how we connect, and how we live. Explore the history of 20th century design through our carefully curated selection of iconic chairs that unites innovation, craftsmanship, and enduring beauty, offering a refined approach to comfort within the modern home.

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We Have Your Back: Iconic Seating for Inspired Living

We Have Your Back: Iconic Seating for Inspired Living

Seating shapes more than posture. It shapes how we gather, how we connect, and how we live. This curated selection of iconic chairs brings together innovation, craftsmanship, and enduring beauty, offering a refined approach to comfort within the modern home.

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Celebrating Piero Lissoni's Frog Chair

30 Years of the Frog Chair by Piero Lissoni

For thirty years, the Frog Chair has redefined how we sit, low, open, and attuned to the body. In its unassuming form, design becomes a sensation that is effortless, enduring, and deeply human.

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Luminaire Design in Commonwealth Promenade

The Rhythm of Modernism at Commonwealth Promenade

Within a modernist landmark reinvisioned by Luminaire and Eric Rotherfeller Architects, past and present meet in measured harmony. Here design is experienced through space, material, and light.

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Portrait of Le Corbusier

Cassina and Le Corbusier: Staging Modernity Across Time

What begins as structure becomes experience. In Staging Modernity, Cassina celebrates Le Corbusier and moves modernity forward, shaped by form, light, and the rhythm of contemporary life.

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Edra Collection in Milan

Edra at Milan Design Week 2025: A New Language of Comfort and Craft

At Salone 2025, Edra reveals a world where material breathes and form responds. Within luminous textiles and sculptural silhouettes, design unfolds as experience, quietly expressive, deeply felt, and endlessly evolving.

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