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Light is more than mere illumination. It adds depth to rooms, makes materials perceptible and transforms architecture into atmosphere.

Be it gleaming gold on dark wood or soft diffused light on a velvety fabric — light can tell stories.

That's exactly what this article is about: how light can transform spaces.

The magic of lighting

Including interior insights & project highlights

Lighting is also about movement. And of course it has a lot to do with creating atmosphere. Light flows over surfaces, emphasises edges, softens shadows and guides the gaze. It is never neutral: it changes the appearance of materials, colours, and textures.

For example, wood can have a warm or a cool effect - depending on the angle of the light. Velvet, on the other hand, can absorb light mysteriously. Linen reveals its vivid structure when exposed to direct light. Smooth surfaces start to glow when the light touches them.

Things get really exciting when light forms a deliberate relationship with form, colour, and function. Reflections enhance lustre, shadows model depth. This is how the soul — the function and atmosphere of a room — can become perceptible.

INTERIOR INSIGHT

Always review materials in realistic lighting situations in your home or on site in the project.

What may be stunning in the showroom may appear flat and trivial in a different environment.

The latest interior design lighting trends

Sculpture, Scene, Signal

People have realised it: Lighting is a statement. As a result, lights are now more than just mere functional accessories; instead, they can set bold accents in a room.

  1. Sculptural luminaires often act as solitary pieces, often in organic or reduced geometric shapes. They attract the eye, even when switched off.

  2. Natural materials like alabaster, wood or textile shades add a soft, emotional touch to the light. Filtering and diffusing it, they refine the ambience.

  3. Technology is becoming invisible: magnetic track systems still do exist. Today, however, they disappear almost out of sight in the ceiling. Smart control systems are available that react intuitively according to the time of day and mood.

  4. Warm is the new white: instead of cool artificial light, warm colour temperatures around 2700 Kelvin are prevailing — pleasant, inviting, familiar.

INTERIOR INSIGHT

When planning, you should approach luminaires like furniture.

Consciously choose their position and coordinate materials carefully — making a luminaire the key feature in your room.

Spotlight #1

Project Fine Dining Silva, Naturhotel Forsthofgut

Here, working with light becomes part of the overall scenography. Golden accents start to shine under well-directed spotlights. Velvet here not only appears velvety, but mysterious. Glamour and shadow, emerging and disappearing - all occurring in one room and all due to the lighting concept.

Indirect lighting and precise interior design create an ambience that never detracts from the culinary pleasures. Atmosphere and understatement.

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Spotlight #2

Project Hotel Recort
– calm, reduced, refined

Sometimes less is more – also when it comes to the lighting. Here, occasionally dark panels underline the depth of the room – while deliberate lighting accents create exciting contrasts.

The reduced material range is carried by warm lighting. Spotlights and diffuse light interact and thus lend structure and create a sense of comfort. Unique masterpieces like modern chandeliers, simple table lamps or pendants providing mood lighting in the bedrooms – they all ‘’ create‘’ the intended ambience. A place of tranquillity – made visible through light.

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Spotlight #3

Project Neuhaus Zillertal – Staging textures

In Neuhaus Zillertal, the architects from Geisler & Trimmel made extensive use of natural materials — wood, stone, and fabric. Materials that are particularly powerful when combined with and emphasised by light. Floodlights accentuate surfaces, indirect light emphasises architectural lines and warm colours create a sense of visual tranquillity. Carefully selected pendants — tailored to the respective room situation — perform 100 per cent: they illuminate and delight at the same time.

Here, light does not work against the room, but with it. Architecture and light merge to form a single entity.

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Transforming a stage into a living space

Design and lighting in private interiors

Light is more than simple illumination. It is emotion, mood, character. — True in private homes as well.

Layering

We are observing this concept, as it becomes increasingly popular in interior design. What does it mean? Well: working in layers, in a three-dimensional space and allowing things to overlap.

This also goes for lighting concepts in private homes: you need ambient light for orientation, accent lighting for depth and mood lighting for atmosphere. Together they create a lively and versatile lighting scheme.

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Dimming

Dimmable luminaires are a must nowadays.

They are no longer a luxury, but an indispensable and practical tool for flexible use and genuine cosiness. Dimmable luminaires in different light colours between cool functional lighting and warm ambient lighting also make sense economically.

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Lighting ensembles

Groups of luminaires create visual energy: table lamp, wall lamp, pendant light — their interaction creates a room that reacts and inspires.

Besides families of luminaires, a group of identical luminaires can also act as a bold statement, whether in varying lengths or heights.

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Our design tips

for your private residential projects
  1. Plan lighting axes: Think about the purpose of a room and consider the paths: from the dining table to the sofa, from the entrance area to the reading corner — light connects these types of spaces and can also direct movement.

  2. Indirect lighting for cosiness: Light sources that are not visible create a special and cosy atmosphere.

  3. Choose the light colour carefully: Warm white calms, neutral white activates. Different zones require different light temperatures.

  4. Match lighting and materials: Natural stone requires a different light intensity than wood or glass. The final impact is created by the combination of different light intensities and colours (see above).

INTERIOR INSIGHT

Think about lighting design right from the start!

Plan sockets, dimming and switches at an early stage - many things require a lot of effort if you want to change them later.

Conclusion
How light creates interiors

Ob privat oder gewerblich – Licht ist das Gestaltungsmittel mit einer kaum zu überschätzenden Wirkung. Es schafft nicht nur Sichtbarkeit, sondern Emotionen und Stimmungen.

In Hotel- und Gewerbeprojekten erarbeiten wir mit Architekturbüros und Design-Partner individuelle Lichtlösungen, um Atmosphäre zu schaffen und die Markenidentität des Betriebs sichtbar zu machen.

In privaten Räumen arbeitet unser Team für Innenarchitektur mit Lichtplanern zusammen und wählt aus Designsicht die entsprechenden Leuchten. Es entstehen Lichtstimmungen, die nicht nur beleuchten, sondern berühren.

Wer Licht richtig setzt, inszeniert keine Kulisse, sondern eine Geschichte. Die des Raumes und der Menschen, die ihn bewohnen.

 Kommen Sie in unser Design Center in Mils und sehen Sie einzigartige Leuchteninszenierungen.

 
Bilder: Alex Moling, Adobe Stock, home INTERIOR

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