Vibia lights the Toronto based Cosentino showroom creating an ethereal and sensually immersive visitor experience

The Cosentino showroom in the Canadian city of Toronto represents a space where materials, architecture and lighting come together in perfect calibrated harmony, to create a generous exhibition space, both modern and bright, whose height allows these sensations to be appreciated.

From a general perspective the various collections act as an invisible structuring device that shapes and guides a route while interacting with the surroundings, from the entrance threshold to any of the several spaces which configure the showroom, providing a pleasant sensation of spaciousness.

Each collection lends identity to the space for which it has been selected, illuminating the same environment, accommodating different functions, perfectly defined by each light fitting. Wireflow Lineal adds a bold graphic presence in the reception area; while Plusminus flows through the space; and Kontorno frames the light with precision within the interior rooms.

Each light fitting not only distinguishes its own personality, generating an attractive visual presence, but the showroom is also capable of creating a dialogue with the exhibited materials introducing different luminous registers within the same project.

Just beyond the threshold, the eye is captured by the importance of the lighting scheme as a key part in the overall project and which responds to a carefully considered configuration of the space, with its associated furniture and accessory elements. All within a selected range of neutral colour tones that generate a calming atmosphere which invites taking pause and exploring the spatial connections, and above all discovering and touching the Cosentino designs.

The first area that visitors encounter is the reception, delimited by a desk with a strong visual presence, thanks to the slatted material expression. Its vertical lines are accentuated on plane above with the Wireflow Lineal collection, designed by Arik Levy, the black cables trace an aerial silhouette that is both sober and precise.

The geometric outline floats in the air welcoming visitors with a poetic expression of light while also offering a clear and direct illumination above the elegant desk while accentuating its surface textures and volume.

From this same entry point, a succession of Plusminus fixtures run through the showroom space featuring compositions of spheres and cones, creating an ordered, aerial continuity. This design by Diez Office, characterised by its textile belt with integrated electrical wiring, allows the fittings to be freely positioned according to their function.

The spherical version of Plusminus offers 360° illumination, a more general and diffuse light, from a central position that crowns the main showroom area. The conical version, on the other hand is only featured in a specific area, over the main table, with a more directed diffuse lighting that responds to a particular lighting requirement.

The showroom includes another separate room for which another collection was selected, Kontorno, a Sebastian Herkner design, that introduces a different language. For this project the version with a curved metal deflector was chosen that projects the light downwards in a precise beam. The practically imperceptible cables evoke a sensation of weightlessness which enhances the immersive lighting generating a controlled attenuation effect.

The Cosentino showroom project in Toronto illustrates the value and potential of very different lighting collections, thanks to a careful previous deliberation of the interior design approach, one that offers a diverse range of mutually complementary and coherent configurations. In such a way that the three together construct a sensorial experience that runs through the space, ordering it, and lighting it, but also lending character.

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– Plusminus
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