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SHOWROOM LUJAN + SICILIA

Founded by Francisco Luján y Jaime Sicilia, Luján+Sicilia was set up in 2001 as a company specialising in decorative lighting. Even though neither of its founders had backgrounds in lighting, they were drawn to lighting design as something which – besides being everyday – they saw as mysterious. ‘In Spain, we have been attracted to consumer goods ever since they became a major feature of our lives in the 1960s and 70s,’ say Luján and Sicilia. ‘Our own creations retain the style of these decades.’

Since 2005, Luján+Sicilia has had a showroom in Madrid where the company’s vibrant lamps are hung strikingly against a black wall. These cast an intriguing play of light and shade which makes them look more like sculptures than lights. Designs include the very original Rut lamp created by Swedish designer Ola Wihlborg, the Paiste pendant light dreamt up by Finnish designer Sami Laine and Spanish designer Martí Guixé’s unusual Booklamp as well as other lights created in-house.

Thanks to the originality of its designs, in a short period of time Luján + Sicilia has gained a strong commercial foothold in all of Europe, the US and Japan. Its founders’ business philosophy is unusual. As they put it, ‘To appreciate the ritualistic aspect of objects, to rediscover and recuperate old values are all starting points for creating something new. We like experimenting with lighting using new materials and investigating the contrasts of light and shade produced by geometric objects. We want to make functional lights – that is to say lamps which are characterful, enigmatic, charming and also a little nostalgic and humorous, as well as lights which, by the by, also provide light.’