The 27th edition of Lightfair International — the world’s largest annual lighting trade show — took over the San Diego Convention Center last week, once again showcasing cutting edge fixtures and systems, emerging technologies and decorative products for both commercial and consumer markets. If you missed the expo, here are seven products from the show that you need to know.
Mark Architectural Lighting
Eaton
Inspired by the natural form of tree limbs, the Arbor series of outdoor lighting sports organic, branching stems that support a disk-shaped lens and LEDs. The result is a sculptural fixture family that looks elegant even in daylight hours. The line includes single-top and dual-arm posts, bollards and single or double wall sconces.
Eaton
Eaton
Edge Lighting
The Tie Stix collection, available sometime this year, mingles warm wood with cool metallic accents in a minimal stick-style LED luminaire. The linear series comprises a one-light wall sconce; one-light adjustable sconce; two-light wall fixture; or suspension lamp. Each comes in five different classic wood or five contemporary metal finishes with a choice of five metal canopies.
Edge Lighting
Focal Point
Nera suspension luminaires fill a void — so to speak. Available in 2-, 3- and 4-foot squares or 5-, 6- and 8-foot-long linear rectangles, the fixtures appear as open metal frames with LED lights ringing the “void.” The batwing optical lens diffuses and distributes indirect illumination.
Focal Point
Focal Point
Mark Architectural Lighting
Mark Architectural rethinks dull ceiling-grid lighting with a nod to a popular puzzle-toy of our generation. Dubbed RUBIK (yes, after that Rubik), this recessed lighting system offers white, tunable-white, grayscale or color LEDs within three-, five- or nine-cell luminaires to create a variety of patterns — from rows and geometric shapes to clusters and freeform designs — within the standard square grid.
Mark Architectural Lighting
Mark Architectural Lighting
Molto Luce
A beautifully sleek, ultra-slim linear suspension, After 8 is a milled aluminum piece measuring a mere 3/16-inch wide with a discreet channel holding LEDs for 70 percent downlighting and 30 percent uplighting. The housing is available with a white, black or bronze finish.
Molto Luce
Molto Luce
Nanoleaf
This young company has been making a name for itself with its funky, faceted LED bulbs that fit into the standard A-lamp socket. But, earlier this year at CES — and recently at Lightfair — it showed off a head-turning product of a different kind. Aurora is a modular, lightweight flat-LED panel that’s triangular in form. Each can be mounted onto flat surfaces simply with double-sided tape and is controlled via app and standard home automation protocols. Aurora, which will come in sets of 10 panels with a control hub, is slated to come out by mid-2016.
Nanoleaf
Nanoleaf
Sonneman, A Way of Light
Resembling a cross between a modern chandelier and a theater lighting system, Suspenders 4-Tier Gallery Matrix enables the power bars to become part of the overall design. The four-tier system is composed of 13 48-inch and five 36-inch power bars in a perpendicular, horizontal configuration. Each LED source is diffused by an etched crystal shade.
Sonneman, A Way of Light
