Lumen Center

Lumen Center the classics of interior lighting

A historic and iconic design suitable for those who love only trendy light points

Lumen Center was born in 1976 in the city of La-Fare-les-Oliviers, under the direction of Gilles Derain; prominent exponent of contemporary French design. Derain was among the first scholars of the UAM - Union des Artistes Modernes, an artistic movement active between 1928 and 1958, which later merged into the international modern movement.

Gilles Derain

The Union des Artistes Modernes numbered among its members, designers and architects such as Eileen Gray, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Franz Jourdain, Le Corbusier, Pierre Chareau, as well as the famous Jacques Adnet: considered one of the most brilliant interior designer of the twentieth century. Adnet was notable for using materials such as glass and steel that emphasized functionality over ornamentation, rejecting the tradition of elite craftsmanship of the Société des Artistes-Décorateurs and the decorativism of Art Nouveau. In the first half of the twenties he worked in Paris together with his twin brother Jean, for Maurice Dufrène at La Maîtrise, the atelier for applied arts of the Les Galeries Lafayette department store, opening their design studio, JJ Adnet. In 1927, with the support of Maurice Dufrène himself, he accepted the directorship of the CAF - Compagnie des Arts Français, a position he held with great honors until its closure in 1960. In thirty years of directorship, Adnet brought together a large number of artists, ceramists , decorators and designers, who share stylistic visions. Collaborations that include personalities such as Marc Chagall, René Gabriel, Francis Jourdain, Georges Jouve, Fernand Léger, Serge Mouille, Alexandre Noll and Charlotte Perriand: the Parisian laboratory becomes an important creative melting pot, contributing to the vitality of the French decorative arts of the mid-twentieth century .

Jacques Adnet

After the Second World War, Adnet was invited to participate in the renowned Salon des Artistes Décorateurs in the 1947 edition, and again in 1948. His reputation earned him numerous commissions carried out in the 1950s including noble villas, airports, transatlantic liners and consular palaces . When the CAF closed in 1960, Jacques Adnet became director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, a position he held until 1970. A few years later LUMEN CENTER was taken over by a Milanese entrepreneur. The collaboration with well-known French designers, including Jean-Michel Wilmotte, and the high quality of the products mean that the company quickly reaches a position in the Italian and international lighting panorama. At the end of the nineties, the company came into contact with Panasonic's European Design Center, VillaTosca Design, creating an important interior design and lighting project for the Royal Pines Hotel in Urawa, Japan. The project is called Life River and still today represents the company's technical-production know-how, as well as the ability to create tailor-made projects with great flexibility. Since then, many initiatives have been carried out by the company at an international level, such as experiments on synesthesia between light, color and sound, the use of alternative sources such as OLEDs and studies on the interaction between light and human metabolism. LUMEN CENTER was also the sponsor of the lighting of the food court of the Japan Pavilion at Expo 2015 and illuminates the important works of Leonardo Da Vinci, Titian, Raphael, Bruegel and Botticelli at the Veneranda Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan.