Atmosfera Mag

02/07/2025

From golden sunsets to flawless nighttime scenes, the Netflix hit Emily in Paris presents a picture-perfect Paris shaped by fantasy, not reality. Steven Fierberg’s cinematography turns the city into a luminous stage where every café, rooftop, and corridor glows with idealized beauty.
Inspired by Disney aesthetics and designed for the Instagram era, here, light is both filter and fiction. A city you believe in—just enough.

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✍🏻 Words by Alice Grisa
📸 Courtesy Netflix

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In Emily in Paris, Steven Fierberg’s cinematography creates a dreamlike Paris: bright, polished, just like a Disney film.

01/07/2025

By day, it’s a 427-meter tower with mirrored views stretching across Manhattan. By night, One Vanderbilt becomes a luminous icon. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and powered by Pharos Architectural Controls, its LED lighting system—featuring Color Kinetics fixtures—transforms the crown and spire into a vibrant spectacle with changing colors and effects visible across the city.

🔗 Discover more at the link: https://www.atmosferamag.it/one-vanderbilt-lighting-new-york/
✍🏻 Words by Editorial Team

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The top of One Vanderbilt lights up New York's skyline every night with dynamic LED colors and effects. A distinctive visual landmark powered by Pharos.

30/06/2025

In 1970, designer Joe Colombo introduced one of the first domestic lamps to use a halogen bulb. Born from his futuristic vision and passion for automotive engineering, the Colombo 626 for Oluce became a symbol of adaptability, precision, and personal lighting control.
Originally conceived as an alternative to traditional chandeliers, it remains a timeless icon, now reissued with dimmable LED technology, a testament to design that stands the test of time.

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27/06/2025

Whimsical, sculptural, and instantly recognizable, these lamps turn animals into luminous companions. From a poetic dove to a mischievous mouse, they blur the line between function and fantasy. Made of resin, glass, or metal, their emotional impact is just as important as their lighting performance. A must for who seek playful icons.�

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26/06/2025

In 2023, the City of Bielefeld unveiled the new Jahnplatz: a redesigned public square shaped by climate-conscious mobility and light. Architecture by Wannenmacher + Möller meets lighting design by ENVUE Homburg Licht GmbH, led by Sascha Homburg, Urs Schreiner, and Edgar Hildebrand.
Suspended above the square, 25 “Night Suns” form a luminous canopy. Each fiberglass ring is unique—its shape, optics, and RGBW system finely tuned to guide citizens through the space, adapting to different events and times of day.
A dynamic, multi-sensory landmark for the city—winner of the Lighting Design Award 2024 and the German Design Award 2025.�

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25/06/2025

Can an office be dismantled like a piece of furniture? In East London, 6 Orsman Road by Waugh Thistleton Architects shows how circular design can shape the way we work. No concrete, no glue—just timber, SIP panels, and dry joints that allow the building to be disassembled and reused. Inside, natural materials, soft lighting and rooftop gardens improve air quality, comfort, and energy performance.
A project that connects sustainability with daily life.

📘 Discover more in our downloadable guide, “Wood Architecture, Light Aesthetics”
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📸 Photo Credits: Waugh Thistleton Architects / Bocci

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24/06/2025

Born in Milan in 1974, Patrick Tuttofuoco is one of the most distinctive voices in Italian contemporary art. His practice moves across sculpture, installation, and urban space, placing artificial light at the heart of a language that’s visual, emotional, and collective.

🔗 Read the full article at the link: https://www.atmosferamag.it/patrick-tuttofuoco-artificial-light-contemporary-art/
✍🏻 Words by Marco Belloni
📸 Courtesy of Archivio Patrick Tuttofuoco

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Patrick Tuttofuoco uses artificial light to shape forms, spaces, and relationships. A journey through contemporary art and the urban landscape.

23/06/2025

What if a lighting gesture could translate waste into care?
‘Re: Overture’ is a domestic lamp that dims through physical interaction: a simple dial rotates two polarizer lenses to modulate light intensity, without electronics. The base is a geometric array of reclaimed aluminum sheets sourced from local EV manufacturers in China. Each piece preserves the shape of the original scrap—no reprocessing, no waste.
Designed by Ran Hu, Shirley Chen, Ke Zheng, and Wei Wang for MIROR, Re: Overture reframes sustainability as tactile design.

20/06/2025

For this new edition of 4 Books, we explore the bookshelf of Teo Sandigliano, a designer and author based in Milan.
With a background in communication strategies and curatorial research, Sandigliano founded his studio in 2017 to apply design as a multidisciplinary tool across editorial, curatorial, and consultancy projects. In 2023, he curated Fatto Bene. An Exhibition to Appreciate Good Design and launched Materials Design Map, an open-source platform for sustainable materials.

Alongside contributing to magazines like Atmosfera, Interni, and DesignWanted, he is also part of the ADI Design Index jury in the category for Theoretical, Historical, Critical, and Publishing Research.
Here are four books that continue to shape his radical, reflective, and socially aware approach to design:

📖 Lo-TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism by Julia Watson
📖 Design for the Pluriverse by Arturo Escobar
📖 Progetto e passione by Enzo Mari
📖 Attrezzature urbane per la collettività by Ugo La Pietra
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19/06/2025

Rethink Suspended Light: 10 Lamps That Get It Right. Some create diffuse fields for ambient uniformity, others act as architectural focal points or light-driven dividers. Their performance depends on optics, geometry, and materiality—whether it’s the reflectivity of mirrored glass, the softness of alabaster, or the control of integrated dimming systems. One thing is for sure: we recommend them to all interior designers.

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18/06/2025

For Dutch duo Esther Jongsma and Sam van Gurp, lighting is a matter of process. That’s what “VANTOT” means, ”from to”. From technical research to poetic form, from forgotten techniques to low-voltage innovation, every step counts.
Based in Eindhoven, VANTOT works with artisans, glassblowers, and solar engineers to push the boundaries of what light can do. Their systems—like the modular and touch-sensitive ‘Liiu’—aren’t just luminaires, but spatial strategies. They reveal the choreography between people and architecture.
Electricity becomes visible, form follows circuitry, and every project adapts to context: vast atriums or small reading corners. The studio’s scale remains small by choice, but its impact is wide-reaching, thanks to long-term collaborations and a network of trusted partners across craft and technology.

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17/06/2025

From Outer Space is the Milan-based studio of Anna Paola Buonanno and Piergiorgio Italiano. Their projects remind us of something often overlooked: lighting isn’t a backdrop—it’s a design engine. In “Iconic Club”, light was used to sculpt rhythm and perception, subtly reshaping the mood of a single space throughout an evening. In “Albe. Luci di Domani,” it became a raw material, balanced through shadows, reflections, and strict chromatic decisions.
Their approach is sharp, hands-on, and refreshingly honest: light doesn’t have to impress to be powerful. It just needs to be thought through.

Read Teo Sandigliano’s full interview on atmosferamag.it
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The design studio From Outer Space discusses the role of light in their projects. Learn more in the interview on Atmosfera Mag!