Baseline Lighting Design Studio

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Why do some stores make you want to stay, and others make you want to leave?🛍️✨The price tag? Maybe. But as you’ll expec...
31/08/2026

Why do some stores make you want to stay, and others make you want to leave?🛍️✨

The price tag? Maybe. But as you’ll expect... we’ll talk about the lighting.

This build treats light as merchandising💡
Mirrored ceilings double the display without adding a single extra fixture. Every zone gets its own backlit sign and warm colour cue, so shoppers navigate by glow before they read a word.

Nothing here is dimmed or restrained. It’s warm, dense, and everywhere on purpose✨

If your lighting isn’t working to hold your customer in the space, it’s working against it.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑋𝑋𝐼𝑉: 𝑃𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡What do you do with a face you’re not allowed to fully see?𝐺𝑜𝑟...
31/08/2026

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑋𝑋𝐼𝑉: 𝑃𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡

What do you do with a face you’re not allowed to fully see?

𝐺𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑠 didn’t set out to hide Marlon Brando’s eyes. He was solving a makeup problem. Brando wore heavy prosthetics to age into Vito Corleone, and the only angle that sold the illusion was light coming straight from above. It also swallowed his eyes in shadow. Willis looked at the dailies and kept it that way.

Paramount didn’t agree. Their biggest star, and you couldn’t read his face. Some executives worried the whole film was too dark to even project properly in theatres. 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑠 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝐶𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑎 held the line anyway. Willis went on to shoot the other two films in the trilogy 🎬

Here’s the part that still gets missed. The eyes you can’t see aren’t an absence, they’re an invitation. You lean toward the screen looking for them, and somewhere in that lean, you’ve already decided this man runs the room without needing to prove it to you.

𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐺𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑒 has run a festival on that same instinct since 2017. 𝑃𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 is built around films that examine art and the people behind it, screened at the Gallery each edition. Nothing about the programme is there for spectacle.

Photography plays the same game with less room to hide. One frame. One exposure. One decision about where the light lands, and where you let it stay dark.

So, what do you do with a face you’re not allowed to fully see? You light around it. You trust the room to lean in. Willis trusted that more than fifty years ago, and we’re still leaning 🌑

“The best lighting decision we made this year was to disappear.”Not the fixtures. Not us. The light source itself💡We’r s...
19/08/2026

“The best lighting decision we made this year was to disappear.”

Not the fixtures. Not us. The light source itself💡

We’r seeing it across every serious brief this year. Grid ceilings are disappearing. Fixtures are disappearing. What’s left is ultra-recessed, micro-aperture light that guests never actually see, just intense, high-contrast spotlighting locked onto the product, the material, the moment that’s supposed to matter.
And it’s not only about what’s hidden. The light itself is starting to behave differently through the day, cooler and sharper in the morning to keep energy up, warm and lowglare by evening to slow guests down, because a body that feels comfortable stays longer, and 𝗮 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 🌙

So the fixtures that do stay visible aren’t apologizing for it either. They’re getting bigger, more sculptural, alabaster, blackened brass, hand-spun aluminum, built to work as art even switched off. Two opposite moves, same intent: Light that serves the space and the people in it

That’s the shift.
Either your lighting strategy is built around it, or it isn’t.

Ready to find out which? ✨

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑋𝑋𝐼𝐼𝐼: 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑅𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑠There’s a reason four different countries in Asia all landed on t...
18/08/2026

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑋𝑋𝐼𝐼𝐼: 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑅𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑠

There’s a reason four different countries in Asia
all landed on the same ritual, independently.

Taiwan does it at the tail end of Lunar New Year. You write a wish on paper, light it, and let go. No ceremony beyond that. It just rises until it’s a star you can’t tell apart from the real ones 🏮

Seoul does the opposite. Nothing goes up. Hundreds of lanterns sit along the waterways and plazas during the Seoul Lantern Festival, each one built around a story somebody decided mattered enough to build a lantern about.
Japan and China have their own versions, tied more to prayer than spectacle. Health, remembrance, the usual weight people put on light when words aren’t enough ✨

None of it is really about visibility, if you think about it. A streetlight does one job. It illuminates a path and that’s the whole transaction. A lantern does something stranger, it passes from your hands into a stranger’s field of vision, and somewhere in that handoff it stops belonging to you.

We spend most of our working hours on lumens, glare, uniformity ratios. Fair enough, that’s the job. But somewhere back before any of that had names, someone was already doing this with paper and fire and a wish they didn’t say out loud.

It still starts there 🕯️

What a pleasure to take part in 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗖𝗢’s 8th Edition, “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑃𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘,” held in Ho Chi Minh City 🌿Our Lighti...
12/08/2026

What a pleasure to take part in 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗖𝗢’s 8th Edition, “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑃𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘,” held in Ho Chi Minh City 🌿

Our Lighting Design Manager, Wanlop Chantarakolkit, joined the panel of speakers for the evening. It was a pleasure to see him and our CEO, Boris DUHAMEL , being part of the conversations and meeting so many talented professionals from across the real estate and sustainability space 🤝

Thank you to DevCo for the invitation and the opportunity to be part of this gathering as a Strategic Partner.

Looking forward to more conversations like this ahead ✨

43 fixtures in one ceiling. You’d hardly spot a single one....Recessed points, hidden coffers, trims that disappear into...
10/08/2026

43 fixtures in one ceiling. You’d hardly spot a single one....

Recessed points, hidden coffers, trims that disappear into drywall. That’s what it takes to hit that number

The client’s question wasn’t about the design. It was “where’s the light coming from.”

That’s the whole trend in one sentence.

Two things sit underneath it. Colour temperature that shifts through the day, cooler at 8am, warmer by 8pm

And scenes programmed to move people through a space without them noticing the transition. Arrival. Dining. Bar.

Retail is doing the same thing with less budget and more ambition

Overhead grids are out. Layered ambient is in. Nobody name-checks sustainability anymore either, it’s just fewer watts doing the same job better

Restraint reads as authority now.

Still figuring out where the line is between invisible and forgettable? Let’s talk.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑋𝑋𝐼𝐼: 𝐴𝑚𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑚 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝐹𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙Twenty artworks. One of them repeated itself twenty years...
07/08/2026

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑋𝑋𝐼𝐼: 𝐴𝑚𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑚 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝐹𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙

Twenty artworks. One of them repeated itself twenty years later.

𝐽𝑜𝑛 𝑉𝑜𝑠𝑠 first showed his illuminated Swans at the festival back in 2005. This edition, they’re back on the water, and they land harder now than they did then. Same sculpture, same canal, an entirely different city looking at it.

Look at the technique underneath the route. 𝐹𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑝 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑎 projected onto the curved facade of NEMO, using the building’s own geometry as the canvas, so the light doesn’t sit on the surface, it moves with it.

Other pieces trigger off footsteps or sound, so the beam isn’t fixed content anymore, it’s a live variable. That’s the shift worth noticing. Light stops illustrating a story and starts writing it in real time 🌊

None of these pieces are chasing pretty for its own sake. They ask you to slow down and read the space differently 🌒

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑋𝑋𝐼: 𝑁𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑅𝑖𝑦𝑎𝑑ℎSome cities are experienced through their buildings, streets, and landm...
06/08/2026

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑋𝑋𝐼: 𝑁𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑅𝑖𝑦𝑎𝑑ℎ

Some cities are experienced through their buildings, streets, and landmarks. Others reveal a different side of themselves after sunset.

In Riyadh, light becomes a way of discovering the city again 🌙

Noor Riyadh brings together artists, designers, and communities through a collection of large-scale installations spread across public spaces, heritage locations, and urban landscapes. As you walk through the festival, familiar surroundings take on new meanings. A building becomes a canvas, a pathway becomes part of an artwork, and a public space becomes a place for connection.

What makes Noor Riyadh remarkable is the way each installation responds to its surroundings. The light does not exist separately from the city. It interacts with architecture, history, and the people moving through it.

For lighting designers, experiences like this highlight the influence light can have beyond illumination. It can shape emotions, create memories, and change the way people relate to a place✨

Noor Riyadh shows how light can become part of a city’s identity, creating moments where art, technology, and culture come together after dark 💡

When design vision and engineering precision align, the result isn’t just a fixture but a statement.These sconces were b...
04/08/2026

When design vision and engineering precision align, the result isn’t just a fixture but a statement.

These sconces were born from a close collaboration between 𝗜𝗡 𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗨 & 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗦’ interior design team, 𝗚𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗢𝗡 𝗬𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗧𝗦’ in-house design team, and 𝗘𝗥𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗛𝗧’s product development studio.
The brief: create a lighting fixture that is both marine-grade hardware and a bespoke decorative feature.

Marine-grade stainless steel. Hand-blown glass. Woven detailing in dialogue with the joinery.
Every material, every finish, considered, not as marine hardware, but as interior craft.

On the design side, the vision was led by Yacine Bensalem and Philippe Grasset, with key contributions from Pietro Peciccia and Nouvel.

On the engineering and manufacturing front, 𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘, led by Boris DUHAMEL , provided essential support, helping refine and produce these pieces to meet the exacting standards of the marine environment while remaining faithful to the original design intent.

Three disciplines, one brief—a new standard for what yachting interiors can be.

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𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑋𝑋: 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐷𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑣𝑎𝑠Most people think winter is something to endure..No...
03/08/2026

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑋𝑋: 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐷𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑣𝑎𝑠

Most people think winter is something to endure..

Not in Helsinki.
Not in January.
Not once 𝗟𝘂𝘅 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶 begins ✨

For a few weeks, the city stops fighting the dark and starts working with it. Historic façades become surfaces for projection. Pedestrian paths become sequences of light and shadow. A public square becomes a room without walls.

You stop walking through the city. You start reading it.

As we’ve explored in these Chronicles, from temples to retail, light has always shaped how people move through space and how they feel while doing it. 𝗟𝘂𝘅 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶 simply removes the product. What’s left is the principle, stripped down to its purest form.

A projection draws the eye. A shadow adds weight. A quiet transition slows your pace without asking permission 💡

And in a season built on scarcity of daylight, that matters more than usual

Environmental psychology has long shown that light affects mood, especially where daylight hours are short. Festivals like this aren’t just cultural events. They’re a public health intervention disguised as art.

You may remember the installations.
But you’ll remember the feeling of the city more.

𝑀𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑒.
𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 🌌

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