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AD50 architects Sandeep Khosla and Amaresh Anand chose to stick to the Euroluce pavilions at the Salone del Mobile. Khosla spoke to us about the lighting design trends that they discovered

What new lighting design trends did you notice at the fair?

Advancements in blown-glass lamps; LED technology making architectural lights slimmer, sleeker, sexier; metamorphic lights that can change shape as well as modulate light. At Euroluce, smaller, family-owned brands showed bigger design developments. Bigger brands disappointed by just tweaking their old collections.

List some brands or collections that you liked.
1. Bocci: ...
2. Martinelli Luce: ...
3. Kinetura: A very unique lighting concept—it had lights that could physically transform when touched and morph into another shape, creating wonderful and subtle light modulations;
4. Vibia: ...
5. Contardi ...
6. Lightyears:...
7. Flos: ...