Cement lighting
Cement has entered for good in lighting industry and seems to be a trend that has come to stay. More and more companies in the field of lighting have begun to manufacture luminaires with cement as raw material.
Cement as a material, definitely gives us an industrial result in lighting, and depending on its color and processing, sometimes it can also have a more pop style. While one would think that concrete luminaires are almost exclusively limited to monochromatic constructions, the imagination of our designers is always surprising and gives us impressive designs. The advancement of technology in the use and shaping of cement has certainly helped, since it can now be made in thin thicknesses, colored in a variety of colors and has a very low weight compared to what we would reasonably expect to have a cement luminaire.
These elements have made cement luminaires fit now into homes, in any room. They give us a minimal aesthetics in the space since the concrete pieces can not be “exuberant”. There is always the chance to exaggerate and fill a living room with concrete pieces but again the material itself will provide a minimal aesthetic in space.
Nevertheless, cement does not cease to be a difficult to use material in the luminaires, mainly because of its lack of transparency. It’s a piece that deserves special attention when designing, because a light should not only have a beautiful and nice design, it must be functional. So we do not have to neglect its original purpose which is to brighten a space. It requires a proper proportion of functionality and design in the luminaires so the result is complete.
