decorative lighting

Retail holiday decorations: trends for the 2019/20 season

"The little affectionate details are always what’s most important." Interview with Annetta Palmisano

Many details or a simple design, artificial light displays or natural light – there are many ways to showcase window displays. Retailers who decorate with a light touch can use the emotional impact on customers and affect retail business ...

ISE: big LED displays, digital mirrors and more!

The trends of tomorrows audiovisuals and system integrations

iXtenso was at the ISE in Amsterdam and looked around for the latest trends in audiovisual media. We couldn't help but to take snapshots of some of the most beautiful implementations. ...

What shop design can look like: Indistrieel - India meets Industrial

For unique furniture and accessories, a visit to the rustic Dutch store is worthwhile

Skilful mixing: What do you get when you mix Indian furniture with industrial look? "Indistrieel". The shop in the town of Middelburg in the Netherlands offers really exciting furniture, lamps, accessories and bags. ...

Create accents in the store: Inspirational decorative lights

Whether above the counter, the checkout zone or the merchandise table: Luminaires set highlights

Diverse forms, styles and materials: The selection of luminaires is large - from the rustic version with metals or wood to the simple modern or the playfully romantic. ...

Attention to detail: Window shopping in Monforte de Lemos and Ourense

The Northern Spaniards have realized that a great store window display doesn’t have to break the bank

Summer vacation is over but the summer impressions remain. Like those garnered from a visit to Galicia in Spain’s northern region. If you venture deeper into Spain’s heartland between a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and a beach ...

Decorative lights for the store

Are you looking for inspiration to design your store? Why not combine the practical with the beautiful?

Luminaires are not only light sources, their design alone can change the atmosphere of a room. Have fun playing with the light! ...

Visual marketing: macro trends for 2017

Brick-and-mortar retailers have a powerful tool to battle today’s increasing competition: the sales floor.

It offers big opportunities to pique the curiosity of consumers and gets them excited right at the point of sale system and encourages them to buy. Having said that, the store needs to be designed in an emotional, attractive and - most of all- ...

The DL 50 LED luminaire range brings together pioneering technology with a classic design

As a result of its high aesthetic appeal, the family of luminaires has been nominated for the German Design Award 2016

The uniform and modular-design DL 50 LED range of luminaires from the OSRAM subsidiary Siteco brings together pioneering technology with a classic design to meet almost all technical and decorative road lighting tasks. In terms of appearance, ...

ELEKTRA – Partner of the Industry

ELEKTRA at Interzum 2015

For the first time in hall 8, booth D 018, ELEKTRA presents itself at the Interzum as high capacity partner for the furniture industry as well as for shop and store fitouts. ELEKTRA offers the implementation of customer demands in line with the ...

Buy Smart: The positive case for quality in Christmas lighting

Buy Smart is the first ever evaluation model for decorative lighting products. The model, as expressed by MK Illumination, the market leader in festive lighting, is designed to assist B2C customers in recognizing and evaluating the most important ...

Stage-worthy, lighting-focussed in-shop merchandising

LED: Energy efficiency still a hot topic

EuroShop, The World’s Leading Retail Trade Fair taking place in Düsseldorf from 16 – 20 February 2014, will cover an area of over 110,000 m² in 16 exhibition halls for the first time next year, making this edition the largest ...

Store lighting: Realistic lighting creates trust

The entrance lures the customer in, while the sales room presents the product in the “best light“

Tidy and well stocked, clean and equipped with innovative details and displays: this is what sales floors and areas should look like, so they attract customers and invite them to look around. However, one detail can make a special contribution to ...

”LED spots continue to replace the traditional halogen lamps“

Interview with Marcus Zauner, Marketing Manager for LUXX Lichtsysteme GmbH

Marcus Zauner is Marketing Manager for LUXX Lichtsysteme GmbH. In this interview, he talks about the advantages of LED in store lighting and explains what advantages LED has compared to T5 neon tubes and what the trends in lighting look like for ...

Appropriate lighting helps with orientation and product presentation

Good lighting is more than just an assistance for the customer

Light can subconsciously influence people, positively as well as negatively. Sunlight makes people happy and in the dark months of winter depressions are more common than in the rest of the year. But aside from such extreme effects, the ...

“Lighting can transform the salesroom into a world of experience“

Interview with Ralf Knorrenschild, Director of Global Key Account Management at Zumtobel

Light creates ambiance. Light triggers emotions. Light influences the purchase decision. The product can have the highest quality, but it requires the correct lighting to completely persuade the customer. In this iXtenso interview, Ralf ...

More light – more presence

With LED equipment Ansorg illuminates the Fisser & Scheers car showrooms and the Volkswagen trademark

Inviting, open, bright – with the extension of the Volkswagen showrooms of the Fisser & Scheers car dealership in Emmerich, Ansorg has for the first time implemented the Volkswagen interior design concept 100% with LED technology. In this ...

Historical exhibits presented in a new light

Cutting-edge lighting solution by Zumtobel for “vorarlberg museum”

Following a four-year conversion period, the “vorarlberg museum” in Bregenz will open its doors again on 21 June 2013. The museum designed by the Bregenz-based architectural studio Cukrowicz Nachbaur has now become one of the highlights ...

Lighting design in its simplest form

Hera has expanded its product range of LED recessed lamps with the stylish model AR 45-LED

Due to its sophisticated design and round shape, the new AR 45-LED spotlight is extremely versatile – with a diameter of only 50 millimetres and installation depth of just 11 millimetres, it fits easily into extra-small spaces, making it a ...

The new LED spotlight ORIO by Ansorg

Highlight in design and lighting technology

The new LED spotlight ORIO – designed in cooperation with the renowned architect and designer Antonio Citterio – meets the highest design demands, at the same time providing maximum flexibility. By means of efficient and ...

Lighting the way to Savings Promolux: Better Light, Better Value

A high-tech retail lighting company is providing bakeries and artisan shops world-wide a golden opportunity to highlight their bakery items and extend shelf life. The site bakery-display-case.com has been given a new look and design as it highlights ...

World of TUI in Berlin: This is where travel dreams start

Ansorg’s creative lighting scenario bathes TUI’s flagship store in Berlin in a warm, sunny mood with a feel-good factor.

Whether digital or analogue, in the travel agency of the future all roads lead to Rome. Or to countless other destinations which can be explored at the "World of TUI" before the journey really starts. Since early 2011, over an area of 320 ...

“Welcome“ to the land of facade opportunities

Interview with Thomas Tennagels, Managing Director of curveLED in Düsseldorf

The first thing visitors saw at the EuroShop 2008 was a large curtain made of light emitting diodes. This year the diodes will once again write “Welcome“ and “Bienvenue“ in the entrance hall. LEDs will be an important trade fair topic. They ...

Facades and windows turn into luminous advertising spaces

Great architecture can get even better with the right light. Façade lighting highlights the outside, or a building is so transparent that the inside lighting also has an effect on the outside. Compared to metal, glass, stone and wood, ...

“In recent years an 'LED hysteria' has erupted“

Interview with Michael Flögel, Sales Manager for Lighting Systems at Elektra

LEDs are becoming more and more important for store designs and with that they also find their way into shop window displays. Our questions on this topic were answered by Michael Flögel, Sales Manager for Lighting Systems in Commercial-, Retail- ...

Seeing the world with different eyes

Übersee-Museum Bremen uses LED technology to illuminate new permanent exhibition

Creating an atmosphere, providing accents, setting the stage: by providing an advanced LED lighting solution, Zumtobel has helped to present the new permanent exhibition at the Übersee-Museum [Overseas Museum] in Bremen to optimum effect. In ...

Ansorg at EuroShop 2011: Innovative and economic lighting solutions for the trade

With a conceptually sophisticated and innovative illuminated stand architecture, Ansorg will receive the visitors of EuroShop 2011. The specialist for retail lighting, however, also has much to offer in terms of some new products. Visitors to the ...

LED says look here…

OMS employs OSRAM Opto Semiconductors LEDs in new in-store luminaires

The right lighting in stores has a very significant effect on how shoppers perceive merchandise and its attractiveness. Also exhibits in museums and galleries and at trade fairs only really show themselves to advantage when they are staged with the ...

BÄRO: The new complete catalogue 2010/11 has arrived!

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The new BÄRO complete catalogue is now available. It showcases the entire BÄRO product range - from the latest product innovations to established, well-proven luminaires, from conventional lighting technology to LED luminaires. ...

gin.o and gin.a - Hoffmeister brings perfect light to presentation spaces

Even the names of the new spotlight series from Hoffmeister set a counterpoint to the severe cubic and cylindrical luminaire designs that have dominated the market for presentation lighting to date. With the unique use of shapes and virtually ...

Light that sets the stage

Zumtobel at Art Basel in Miami Beach

From 3 – 6 December 2009, at the 8th edition of Art Basel in Miami Beach, Zumtobel will draw the curtain for fascinating lighting solutions in art and culture. Furthermore, Zumtobel will present the Starbrick Masterpiece, which was created in ...

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors presents first OLED light source

The Orbeos panel combines energy savings, quality light and design

Light, thin, non-glare and warm white – Orbeos is the first OLED light source from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors for premium quality functional lighting. The new energy-efficient surface-emitting panel is especially suited to applications in the ...

Brilliance in a perfect design

Ecoos direct/indirect luminaire ensures outstanding efficiency

The new Ecoos individual luminaire, which emits light in all directions, is yet another masterpiece created by Zumtobel. The perforated lateral reflector allows light to be emitted laterally from the luminaire, reducing luminance to beneficial ...

Pharmacy from the Arabian Nights

For the Super-Care Pharmacy in Dubai Mall, Ansorg developed, together with the Bluehaus design office, a lighting solution which makes the Wellness temple radiant. It is probably the largest pharmacy in the Arab emirates that moved into Dubai Mall ...

Coolness of the senses

Areej, the leading cosmetics sales chain in the Arab Emirates, sets the scene for a brilliant range of merchandise in Dubai Mall, supported with lighting design from Ansorg. Areej is the Arabic word for ‘sweet scent‘, synonymous with ...

Lighting serial LD 6000 – Strong power in slim designs

Times of rising commodity prices and environment-conscious living require solutions that are both energy and cost saving. Elektra meets this requirement with state-of-the-art fluorescent lighting technology.The high light output of the LD 6000 ...

Coffee house with culture

Taking into account the requirements of the historical architecture, Ansorg succeeded in setting a tasteful scene with the lighting for Starbucks’ new address in Mönckebergstraße. In 1913, the ornate building with the Doric columns ...

BÄRO to use improved reflector material from 2010

Greater energy efficiency, a longer life, better light

The reflector is one of the most important components of a luminaire. Why? Because the material, shape and properties of the reflector determine the distribution of light in the salesroom and on the products and also the lamp efficiency/utilisation ...

OSRAM ceramic lamps now as 100W systems

OSRAM expands its range of Powerball HCI halogen metal halide lamps

With its Powerball HCI 100W lamps Munich lighting manufacturer OSRAM now provides 100W systems for halogen metal halide lamps with ceramic burners for the first time. It means the company is meeting the demands of OEMs and lighting designers for a ...

BÄRO MaxBeam – The new special reflector for sales-promoting product lighting from a great height

From wholesale stores to supermarkets and shopping malls - lighting which promotes sales and is also energy-efficient is particularly difficult to realise when shelves, aisles or long sales counters need to be illuminated from a great ceiling ...

LED-Solutions for showcases

Vitrale_Linie Showcase lighting fitted with a frame incorporating two light lines with cooling section and optic (30° transparent, diffuse and white). Can also be installed without a frame. Vitrale_Surface Showcase lighting consisting of luminaire ...

Round 2 of the “LED - Emotionalize your light” competition

Ideas can still be fine-tuned and judged before 23 July

Following a successful first round of the “LED - Emotionalize your light” competition supported by OSRAM and Siemens, the three best lighting concepts have been chosen. In the second stage to follow, the design community will discuss and ...