As the end of 2023 draws near, Kristin Estes, Specification Sales, seized the opportunity to highlight some of TLA’s manufacturers who have been recognized by Interior Design Magazine through the Best of Year Awards!
We are thrilled and proud to represent manufacturers who are continually pushing the limits and creating incredible products. Perhaps a few of these luminaires can find a home on one of your projects in 2024!
Congratulations to all who were nominated. Get inspired by checking out the list of Best of Year Awards finalists and their drool-worthy products below.
Acoustical Lighting
Bover Barcelona: Noren
Designed by Estudi Manel Molina, Noren takes its name from the pieces of fabric that were traditionally used as curtains in Japanese homes to divide different areas, replacing walls, doors, or windows. Inspired by this Japanese tradition, Noren are lightweight, decorative light structures with sound-absorbing panels which, when combined, help to coordinate the space by integrating sound and light.
This project aims to meet the needs of communal areas and workplaces by providing good light and softening ambient noise through a decorative element.
Congratulations to Bover for Noren’s recognition as a 2023 Best of Year Honoree.
BuzziSpace: BuzziSurf
Here’s your invitation to ride the wave and add softness to your space with BuzziSurf. The acoustic pendant light’s plush design will create a cozy atmosphere for your chosen interior, whether in an office, reception, educational setting, or residential area.
The versatile and height-adjustable solution can adapt to different zoning areas and spaces with low ceilings. BuzziSurf Small is suited for individual tables or intimate gathering spots. On the other hand, BuzziSurf Medium and BuzziSurf Large benefit collaboration zones, reception areas, educational spaces, and the hospitality sector.
Congratulations to the team at BuzziSpace for BuzziSurf’s 2023 Honoree award!
Architectural Lighting
Estiluz: Mood
Mood is a new lighting concept designed by designed by Ester Pujol and Daniel Vila of Nahtrang Studio. The essence of MOOD is to create environments, always immersive, always changing. MOOD is transformed and transported, accompanying us in every space, in every moment of the day.
The same shade can be attached to different supports and in different positions to adapt as much as possible to the changes of a nomadic life, and easily become a suspension lamp, floor, table, or wall lights.
We’re thrilled to offer our congratulations to Estiluz USA for winning the architectural lighting product category with the Mood Collection!
Pendant Fixtures
LZF Lamps: Candela
The Candela lamp’s abstract composition reflects designer Candela Cort’s flamboyant career as a milliner.
With this symbolic light, Candela alludes to the abstract artwork of the painter Wassily Kandinsky and his assiduous use of geometric form and color. The Candela lamp’s seemingly chaotic arrangement of geometric elements and strips speak figuratively of life itself: the geometric elements allude to how things come about and the strips of red wicker pith signify maintaining balance.
In Candela, fashion merges with light in singular and unique illuminated works of art, which Candela Cort makes with her own hands, following her instinct and inspiration as if it were a headdress. Each piece is unique, numbered, and signed by the artist.
Our congrats go to Estiluz for Candela’s well-deserved recognition as a 2023 Honoree!
FLOS: Skynest
Designed by Marcel Wanders, Skynest is a suspension lamp featuring an innovative LED strip, woven with a textile tube to create a basket-like form that is crafted yet sophisticated.
Formal elegance and technical innovation materialize into a poetic approach with a new world of sustainability and technology.
We’d like to congratulate our friends at FLOS for Skynest’s recognition as a 2023 Honoree.
Foscarini: Fregio
Designed by Andrea Anastasio in collaboration with Bottega Gatti, Fregio represents Foscarini’s attitude toward exploring new expressive languages in lighting design, also approaching different materials. Made of a section of a ceramic floral bas-relief, the lamp is presented as a suspension and wall lamp offering light directed both downwards and upwards.
FREGIO is a horizontal composition, an impressive and highly decorative lamp; the suspension version is ideal for lighting tables or desks, with both downward and upward light emission. The two ceramic sections are anchored to a metal profile containing LEDs, thanks to two straps placed at the extremities.
Our heartfelt congratulations go to the team at Foscarini for being selected as the winner of the Pendant Fixtures product category.
Sconces
RBW: Topo
Topo’s elegant construction is both minimal and inviting, seamlessly joining an elliptical glass bulb to the unique visual textures of our circular backplate (and Topo is ADA-compliant!).
Offered in a selection of rich earth tones ranging from Clay to Basalt, the backplate radiates with warmth as the light illuminates the organic patterns on its surface.
Congratulations to RBW for Topo’s 2023 Honoree award!
Floor & Table Lamps
Foscarini: Bridge
A luminous bridge with a distinctive and minimal visual essence, Bridge is a contemporary yet timeless design object.
Congrats to the team at Foscarini for Bridge’s 2023 Honoree award!
Outdoor Lighting
Bover: Nit
Nit features a circular surface that floats on an illuminated skirt, integrating the light in an orderly manner without occupying a usable area and illuminating the minimum to open out around it. The lamp is battery-powered and emits light above and below.
The upper light emerges discreetly, peeking above the surface, to gently bathe the tabletop and reveal objects in the dark.
The light cylinder penetrates the inside of the metal structure, indirectly illuminating the screen woven by hand with a nautical cord or synthetic rattan. Designed by Gonzolo Nila.
Nit was recognized as a 2023 Honoree— our congrats go to Bover!
El Torrent through Estiluz USA: Meisy
Meisy transports you to the places you dream about. Fine details include a braided natural or acrylic cord shade, available in one, two, or three colors, and a black metal structure with black electrical cable and canopy.
Mesiy was recognized as a 2023 Honoree in Outdoor Lighting. Congratulations to the team at El Torrent!
