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Vast Cove Light Palette by Tivoli


Featured Manufacturer

Martinelli Luce


Who designed it Wednesday?

AIA Salazar-Navaro's Skin S for B.Lux


Technical Spotlight

What is Vyv Tech?


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VAST COVE LIGHT-PALETTE

Designed by Tivoli

VAST Palette is a DMX with RDM (remote device management) protocol and a self-ballasted 120V-277V AC feature. Available in multiple RGB+W CCTs and flexible connectors to accommodate curved applications. 

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The places we live in belong to us, they tell about who we are, our aspirations. The philosophy of Martinelli Luce does not aim to be a mere detached, technical or engineering approach to the study of light, but above all a personal, visionary, narrative interpretation.

This attitude that bonds the three generations that have succeeded one another at the helm of the company is the most precious (cultural) heritage passed down by Elio Martinelli, father and founder of the Martinelli Luce brand.

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Martinelli Luce's History

Nature and geometry as sources of inspiration

We could start recounting the story of Martinelli Luce by saying that it was born in 1950, in a period buoyant with creative and constructive ferment. It was the post-war period; one where Italian homes lacked many objects and it was almost a mission for the designers of the time to create and manufacture aesthetically pleasing and functional objects. In this context, Elio Martinelli succeeded in distinguishing himself for his design approach that united the respect for rigorous and essential geometric forms with the respect for nature, from which he drew inspiration for surprisingly original lines and forms.

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Skin SDesign by AIA Salazar-Navarro

for B.Lux

AIA (Activitats Instal.lacions Arquitectòniques) is a multidisciplinary team from Barcelona that has been delivering industrial design, architecture and engineering projects since the early 1990s. Sustainability, state-of-the-art technology and efficiency are three of the pillars which support its work.


Their participation in architectural projects becomes an opportunity for innovation, since they design objects for which industry has not yet provided satisfactory solutions. This is how AIA designed the Linia multifunctional technical lamp, manufactured by Vanlux. AIA has collaborated, among others, with the renowned French architect Dominique Perrault, on the D-123 building in Barcelona.

The story behind the product

The idea was to develop a lamp with a mutating image, with an exchange of exterior skin for several finishes; metal, paper, fabrics. A stylized lamp, based on a T5 fluorescent light bulb, sheathed in a satin-white polymethacrylate tube that acts as a diffuser, and with a brass or steel mesh wrap-around screen that traps and filters the light adding metallic glints, the nature of which change depending on whether the mesh wrap-around is brass or steel.


Skin lamps can be used individually or in groups, as either standing lamps or suspended from walls or ceilings. They come in a wide range of sizes with the bigger models being ideal for spaces with a large surface area.

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What is Vyv Tech?

A New Class of Continuous Antimicrobial Light

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The earliest publication citing the antimicrobial efficacy of the 400-420nm region of visible light was at the Royal Indian Engineering College in London in 1892, where filters were used with sunlight to determine their germicidal properties. The major difference between UV-C light and Vyv’s violet-blue visible wavelengths is that only Vyv meets the international standards for continuous and unrestricted use around humans; where UV is dangerous to humans.

Vyv Antimicrobial Light continuously protects against

viruses, bacteria, fungi, mold and yeast.


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The Four Stages of Cell Death

Vyv’s antimicrobial light wavelengths initiate a photo-reaction with endogenous non-iron porphyrin molecules found only in microorganisms. The porphyrin molecules are photo activated. Vyv’s light frequencies excite the porphyrins, causing a break-off of excess Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS). This causes irreparable damage within the cell, ultimately destroying the cellular membrane from the inside out.


Vyv attacks the cell from multiple vectors preventing the cell from building up any new defenses against this form of attack. This is unlike approaches used with antibiotics that can cause germs to mutate and develop resistance.


Use Vyv anywhere and get a new kind of continuous antimicrobial cleaning.

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