Euroluce 2023, spotlight on technical lighting
Simes, Ghost, design Marc Sadler, photo courtesy
This year at the fair, the technological features of light, previously less prominent, will be an integral part of the pavilions. Targetti, the Cariboni Group and Simes explain what this small lighting revolution means
“For the first time in a long while, Euroluce, as part of the Salone del Mobile, intends to turn the spotlight on technical lighting as an expressive medium for enhancing the value of architecture, a message that we have been advocating for years,” explains Giovanni Bonazzi, CEO of the group 3F Filippi | Targetti. He welcomed what can be called a small lighting revolution, namely a focus on the technological aspects of light. This will make the next Salone del Mobile.Milano an event from which even the most technical figures in the sector will be able to draw not just inspirations and visions, but also ideal solutions for their design work.
Targetti, IVY, design Stefano Boeri Interiors, photo courtesy
The focus on technical lighting will become crucial for companies such as the group 3F Filippi | Targetti, which supplies important new products for quality professional architectural lighting. “Our space presents products devised for architects and designers offering strong technical and innovative features for both indoor and outdoor environments. The IVY system, which we’ve developed in collaboration with Stefano Boeri Interiors, fully represents the approach we’ve adopted in recent years, made up of important partnerships and a constant dialogue with the fascinating world of prescription lighting,” explains Bonazzi, who sees the trade fair as an opportunity for consolidation. “Our participation aims to strengthen the dialogue with architects and designers, making available to all of them our expertise in finding or implementing the most suitable lighting solutions for enhancing the value of the architectural project.”
Cariboni Group, lighting of the theater-temple of Pietravairano (CE), photo courtesy
A vision embedded in a trend seeking to overcome the division between aesthetic and practical qualities. “We see the 2023 edition of Euroluce as the point when lighting moves beyond the decorative-technical dualism, achieving a more correct balance between aesthetic values and functional performance,” says Dante Cariboni, CEO of Cariboni Group. “We feel a duty to be part of this paradigm shift to promote lighting that dialogues with the environment and adapts to the visual, emotional and biological needs of the users with whom it interacts.”
Cariboni has been active in the electrotechnical sector for over a century, with extensive experience in the design and production of professional solutions for architectural, urban, street and functional outdoor lighting. The company is constantly looking for innovative solutions to offer new scope for the use of urban spaces and to protect the well-being and safety of the people who live there, they explain. For the company, product design consists of an integrated project of optical, electronic and mechanical features. Cariboni points out that a fundamental phase of development involves defining formal and functional qualities, following careful analysis of the needs and possible settings for applications, assessing the relationships that the lighting system will have with people and the environment. This approach will also be presented at the Salone del Mobile.Milano. “We’ll be there to convey how our gentle treatment of people and the environment is fulfilled in the Good Light capable of enhancing the places of the community and protecting the well-being of every form of life,” continues Dante Cariboni. “We’ll be there to listen, because it’s the dialogue with the designers that enables us to create customized solutions consistent with the identity of each place. We’ll be there to meet, because we believe in the human and collective dimension of doing business.”
Simes, application of Pivot projectors, photo courtesy
Simes, a company founded in the heart of Franciacorta, a land famous for fine wines but also the strategic pole of a district strongly specialized in die-casting and metalworking, is also looking to the next Salone del Mobile.Milano as a renewed venue for exchanging ideas. In this case, thanks to a profound knowledge of how to work its chosen raw material, aluminum, and the waterproof electrical materials sector, the company specializes in the outdoor lighting market, producing lights for landscapes, homes, industry and urban spaces.
IP System and the first generation of linear plug-in lighting systems for outdoor use are their showpieces, the results of innovation and research that have expanded the expressive potential of architectural light, as they observe. And it is precisely this aspect of the work that the company is ready to present. “Simes sees Euroluce as an indispensable opportunity for extending our contacts and comparing ideas,” said Roberto Botti, Simes General Manager. “It’s the most important event for displaying the results of our steady research and innovation. It’s an opportunity to gather the opinions of professionals, draw new stimuli and explore trends in the sector. And it’s a way to present new solutions that bring new potential to the ways of designing light.”
