Lumina

The company Lumina began with an idea from Tommaso Cmimini who designed the Daphine in a basement in 1973. The first pieces ordered were produced entirely by hand, by two employees. Daphine was presented the following year, at the Fiera Campionaria in Milan. Thanks to the charm of its modern and simple lines, it excited immediate interest everywhere. Lumina was officially established in 1975 with the intention of designing and building light fixtures that “could dress nothing more than what is necessary”. Riccardo Blumer,Yaacov Kaufman, Walter Monici,and Emanuele Ricci were among the many famous designers who joined Tommaso Ciminis’s design team. They helped to create an increasingly beautiful product line year after year. In 1987 the increase in activity forced the company to leave their small workshop and move to an 11.000 m² location,of which 3.500 m² are covered, still in Arluno today.Between 1992 and 1994 two subsidiary companies - one in Germany near Stuttgart and one in Switzerland near Solothurn - have opened and have since moved to larger, more modern locations.During 2005 Lumina, looking towards the future, enlarged its premises in Arluno. Today there are 40 people working in the factory. Tommaso Cimini, founder and for many years heart and soul of Lumina, was very young when he arrived in Milan in the late ‘60s after completing his technical studies.After a few years spent working for a very well known lighting company, he decided to set up his own business, designing and manufacturing, all by himself and using simple but ingenious tools, a halogen table lamp that he called Daphine. Thus, in 1975, Lumina was established. Design: a consequence of technically conscious choices. An idea must have an immediate impact, it must fascinate right away. A beautiful object is not complete if it has not been designed considering functionality and visual comfort: it should not follow fashion, but meet the human needs, it must generate a good light, it must be easy, safe and handy and have a long life.We design light fixtures that are part of our environment, our world, and our history. “The beauty is a need of the mind, the function is the origin of the harmony and the design is the consequence of technically conscious choices” [arch. Walter Monici]

Quality:

It is an ethic principle: An object must have a long life and reach the aim for which it has been designed.The safe and reliable use in the time is the consequence of many organized activities: the experience improved by a high technical skill, a sound and far-sighted project, and the work being carried out in a careful and controlled manner.Quite complete security standards -under title EN 60598-, continuously updated, have been issued for the lighting industry: Lumina grants that its entire production is designed and manufactured with strict accordance to these standards and to give its customers the highest guarantee, entrust the best international Quality Institutes (IMQ, VDE, ETL) with the control and listing of its production.Our staff is committed to grant our customers the ease and safe use of our products and provide for suitable assistance so that the pleasure of the forms and the light can be fully enjoyed.“Products over 20 years old are often sent back to Lumina for repair and assistance.” Lumina adheres to tradition in order to project the future: in fact, the Company is made by people that shall conserve, feed and increase this tradition. A reliable and serious selling network enhances high quality products and prompt service.Lumina products are sold in the most important markets worldwide with the headquarters in Arluno, Italy, two subsidiary companies (Germany and Switzerland), over thirty agents and importers and many direct Customers. For more than thirty years, Lumina products have been known and appreciated worldwide as high quality light fixtures for residential use; recently, new light fixtures have been designed, where spare energy light sources can be used, thus allowing to extend the refined and personal “residential atmosphere” to public areas such as restaurants, bars, reception halls and hotel rooms, offices, shops, show rooms etc.The specially designed project toolings and the customizing processes of the standard products allow the planners and the specifiers to recognize the most suitable solutions for their Customers.“By means of very advanced softwares (light planning and photographic simulation in CG), Lumina is able, on request, to help the planners to suggest customized solutions for the contract market”.