What’s New What’s Next takes place today at 200 Lex, the New York Design Center. Design events will be taking place throughout the day, including several related to lighting:
RTO Lighting is launching the Anouk collection of table and floor lamps later this month and offering a preview of the line in the Fair showroom at 200 Lex today. Inspired by modernist designer Andre Sornay’s Rondins lamps from the 1930s, Anouk, designed by Robert True Ogden, pairs a closed cone lampshade with a sculptural wooden base for a bold yet minimal fixture.
Visual Comfort, which introduced outdoor lighting earlier this year, is hosting a panel discussion with leaders in lighting design and landscape architecture including Basar Erdener, Mario Nievera, Nathan Orsman and Stacy Paetzel. They will talk about the use of light in exterior spaces, from smart systems and sustainable materials to architectural integration. Elle Decor‘s Market Director Benjamin Reynaert is moderating the discussion.
As previously reported, Cosulich Interiors is closing its showroom at the New York Design Center and transitioning to an online-only model as it returns to Europe to work directly with its design partners from there. The showroom, which is filled with unique and custom-made Murano glass lighting fixtures, is holding a 45% off sale on everything in its showroom from now until the end of the year.
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Robern has introduced the Instinct Mirror which has customizable lighting, on-mirror touch control for easy adjustments to color temperature and output, and built-in de-fogging technology.
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Lutron recently collaborated with Brooklyn artist Dustin Yellin to demonstrate how dramatically illumination can alter perception. “Prisms of Light,” an exhibition in Lutron’s New York showroom that closes today, highlights four of Yellin’s pieces from his Psychogeographies and Cave Painting series.
The Lutron showroom allows visitors to experience different color temperatures and light intensities with the touch of a button, said Cecilia Ramos, senior director, architectural market, at Lutron. It also allows the company the opportunity for artist collaborations such as this one to show how light can impact art.
Lutron’s Ketra system can automatically change indoor light to mimic the outdoors, and Yellin has the system installed in his studio.
While Yellin works across mediums, he is known for creating visually complex, three-dimensional collages with stacked sheets of laminated glass, three of which were in the exhibit: God Shaped Hole (2024) and The Willow Next Door (2024) – both of which weighed 2,000 pounds and required a special support platform – as well as the smaller Kykeon Drift (Study for Psychogeography, 2024). In addition, Yellin’s painting Werner’s Crater (2025) was also displayed.
In a press tour this week, Ramos toggled between different color temperatures to show how each piece changed. “One of the things we discovered in this collaboration was the idea that light can shift perceptions of reality,” she said. Light with a pink hue, for example, can result in faded greens in artwork.
“We’re always learning from others of how these tools can be used,” she said. “Giving the power to the artist or the homeowner, to shape their space as they wish – we might have our ideas – but we have to make it easy and intuitive for them to shape their environments.” — Andrea Lillo
