Light+Building 2016: Trend Forum

The Trend Forum at Light+Building showcases trends in the home for 2016-2017 and is geared toward designers and architects working in interiors.

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The Trend Forum at Light+Building showcases trends in the home for 2016-2017 and is geared toward designers and architects working in interiors. Four living space sets are on display featuring a color palette and selection of materials that speak to each trend. This year’s four “scenes” designed by bora.herke.palmisano style studio are:

Progressive & Decorative
The ‘Progressive & Decorative’ scenario creates surprise by juxtaposing progressive product development and decorative aesthetics. The style combines futuristic and decoratively glitzy elements with craftsmanship and new technologies.

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Liberal & Manifold
The ‘Liberal & Manifold’ theme combines multifarious, original ideas in an open and unconstrained way. This multifaceted, young style rejuvenates the world we know, refreshes retro features and, in so doing, creates something new.

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Ingenious & Significant
This style impresses us with clever and minimalistic solutions producing standout lighting effects. Architectural purism combines with innovative concepts, aesthetic perfection and new design to create a lighting effect that blows us away.

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Pristine & Desirable
Inspiration comes from nature and the botanical world for this style to create poetical and emotionally desirable designs. It is infused with allusions of nature: in organic forms, in the spectrum of natural colors and the world of bud, leaf and plat motifs.


The Trend Forum is on display in Hall 5.1/6.1 Foyer. Guided tours accompany this program and will be given on: Sunday, March 13, 2016, at 3:0o p.m.; Monday through Thursday, March 14 – 17, 2016, at 12.00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.; and Friday, March 18, 2016, at 12.00 p.m.

Lectures for the program will take place in Hall 6.1, B11 and be given in German with English translation.

About the Author

Elizabeth Donoff

Elizabeth Donoff is Editor-at-Large of Architectural Lighting (AL). She served as Editor-in-Chief from 2006 to 2017. She joined the editorial team in 2003 and is a leading voice in the lighting community speaking at industry events such as Lightfair and the International Association of Lighting Designers Annual Enlighten Conference, and has twice served as a judge for the Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section’s (IESNYC) Lumen Award program. In 2009, she received the Brilliance Award from the IESNYC for dedicated service and contribution to the New York City lighting community. Over the past 11 years, under her editorial direction, Architectural Lighting has received a number of prestigious B2B journalism awards. In 2017, Architectural Lighting was a Top Ten Finalist for Magazine of the Year from the American Society of Business Publication Editors' AZBEE Awards. In 2016, Donoff received the Jesse H. Neal Award for her Editor’s Comments in the category of Best Commentary/Blog, and in 2015, AL received a Jesse H. Neal Award for Best Media Brand (Overall Editorial Excellence).Prior to her entry into design journalism, Donoff worked in New York City architectural offices including FXFowle where she was part of the project teams for the Reuters Building at Three Times Square and the New York Times Headquarters. She is a graduate of Bates College in Lewiston, Me., and she earned her Master of Architecture degree from the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.

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