Vibia and Milan Design Week 2022: The Highlights

At Fuorisalone, Hi Lite Next served as the site of a special Vibia event on June 7 to reveal its latest luminaires.

Several installations of Plusminus were shown as well as Diego Fortunato’s Mayfair Mini.

Another Fuorisalone display of Vibia luminaires was at Elmar Cucine, a showroom designed by the acclaimed architect studio Palomba Serafini.

Four Plusminus installations and four Mayfair Mini brightened the space. The latter, measuring a diminutive 38cm x 20cm, cast a contained pool of diffuse, downward light for an intimate effect.

The DAAily Lounge at the Swiss Center included a group of Plusminus semi spheres suspended over café tables, illuminating an Archdaily, Architonic, and Designboom event on June 8.

Inspired Barcelona, a travelling exhibit held at Fuorisalone, featured an installation of Plusminus semi spheres and the Flat pendant by Ichiro Iwasaki, a disc-shaped diffuser that forms horizontal planes of light. Martín Azúa, who has designed several collections for Vibia, created Inspired Barcelona, which showcases the Catalan city’s creativity in different lounge spaces.

Vibia displayed several collections at Salone de Mobile, including at Salone Satellite, a special exhibit targeted to designers under 35 years old.

Here, visitors found a large spherical version of Stephan Diez’s Plusminus, a groundbreaking lighting system featuring a textural fabric ribbon that conducts electricity and fastens like a belt.

The Arper booth at Salone displayed Vibia’s Flamingo collection by Antoni Arola. The floating, multi-layered Flamingo gives off a gradation of ambient light within its elegant form.

Flamingo was also on display at Salone’s Expormin booth, along with Arik Levy’s Wireflow Freeform and North wall lamp. The personalisable Wireflow is crafted of black electrical cables for an industrial yet ethereal feel, while North allows light to be placed exactly where needed with its deconstructed, adjustable design.

In Salone’s Potocco booth, visitors saw a trilevel Flamingo luminaire as well as a Mayfair table lamp by Diego Fortunato that reimagines the traditional 19th-century French bouillotte fixture in a modern design.

Plusminus and Mayfair Mini is expected to be released later this year in US and Canada.

Featured Products:
– Plusminus
– Mayfair Mini
– Flat
– Flamingo
– North
– Wireflow Free-Form
– Mayfair