{"id":284409,"date":"2026-07-01T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/best-lighting-design-brands-leading-smart-led-innovation\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:50:12","slug":"best-lighting-design-brands-leading-smart-led-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/best-lighting-design-brands-leading-smart-led-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Lighting Design Brands Leading Smart LED Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Best Lighting Design Brands Leading Smart LED Innovation<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/monocle.com\/business\/technology\/lighting-brands-smart-led-design-innovation\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-01 07:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: monocle.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Well-thought-out lighting can improve the quality of design in any space. And it\u2019s an area of product and technological development that\u2019s rapidly improving thanks to innovations that have narrowed the gap between incandescent bulbs and leds. Monocle profiles five brands that are leading lights in the field.<\/p>\n

Bespoke brightness<\/strong>
Occhio, Germany<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just like magic,\u201d says Axel Meise as he holds his hand near a circular light fixture, called Mito, that\u2019s hovering above a table in his Munich office. The light dims and Meise, the founder of German lighting company Occhio, which makes Mito, explains the logic of its design. \u201cYou can be the director of your atmosphere: with a simple gesture, you can decide the intensity, colour and where you want to position the light.\u201d<\/p>\n

Occhio\u2019s rotatable and dimmable Lei luminaire<\/p>\n

\"AxelAxel Meise<\/p>\n

\"MultipleMito lights<\/p>\n

This, he says, is the power of the brand\u2019s technology. And it\u2019s a technology that sets Occhio apart from its competitors: the Bavarian operation has an in-house team of engineers developing its own electronic systems to work with its luminaires. Such a set-up is unusual in the lighting world but Meise explains to Monocle, when it visits Occhio\u2019s HQ, that it was a necessity born out of a number of challenges the brand has faced since its early days.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the 1990s I was working as a lighting dealer and saw that architects and interior designers wanted the right quality of light for every room but for the luminaries to be consistent in terms of design concept and materiality,\u201d says Meise. \u201cThat didn\u2019t exist.\u201d In response, Meise established Occhio in 1999 and launched his first product line, Puro, a modular system of luminaires with interchangeable heads that, despite being limited in range, could be combined in many ways. It was a hit and Occhio\u2019s star product line in these early years.<\/p>\n

However, Puro\u2019s reliance on incandescent bulbs meant that when the EU began…<\/p>\n

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