Choose two Design Luce products to measure for this project: Handrail to illuminate the stairs and Color to illuminate and integrate the emergency lights

The technicians of the Fine Arts of Florence have recovered a secret staircase in Palazzo Vecchio. During the removal of the coatings, some decorations from the year 500 were given credit to Marco Marchetti from Faenza. The restoration also included decorations in the vaults, while the staircase was integrated into the Palace’s escape system, improving safety by enhancing the spaces. Historical records indicate that the staircase provided Eleanor of Toledo and Cosimo de’ Medici with a safe escape route and to connect various parts of the Palace.

The request for this project was to properly illuminate the staircase, making both the frescoes and the steps bright to ensure a safe passage, in compliance with the regulations about the stairwells of buildings open to the public. It was also necessary to create an emergency light to signal the route. For this reason, two custom-made products from Design Luce’s catalogue were chosen: Mancorrente to illuminate the staircase and Color to illuminate and integrate the emergency lights into the lighting body.

The Handrail, in this specific project, was installed along the flights of stairs and on the landings, ensuring safety for both passage and visibility, as it represents the principal source of light in the stairwell. The two Design Luce’s products chosen for this project were selected for their perfect integration with the specific context, thanks to the possibility of customizing size, colour and light source to allow precise lighting and harmonious adaptability to the environment. The Palazzo Vecchio project is just one example of the many possible combinations throughout Design Luce’s catalogue. Each luminaire elegantly adapts to a wide range of environments, ranging from domestic to public and commercial areas, underlining the versatility and innovation that characterize the Florentine company.

Design Luce was born in Florence in the year 2000, thanks to the creative and far-sighted mind of Luigi Cerbone. Neapolitan by birth, Tuscan by adoption and significant experience in electrical engineering, Cerbone decided to devote himself to lighting. That is thanks to the awareness that a sartorial luminaire makes the difference in light in the projects that need products of excellence, functional but elegant, specific and refined. Starting from fluorescence, soon supplanted by the advent of LEDs, to the use of aluminium, the essential material for the dissipation of light sources. More flow, better illumination and greater need for dissipation. And it is thanks to this perfectly mouldable material that light, Cerbone has always expressed as well-being and a source of beauty, meets design.

In his company, experts develop and design made-in-Italy profiles internally, well aware of the importance – in addition to technology – of products’ elegance and class. Luigi Cerbone has been at the helm of Design Luce for 25 years,  employing collaborators, all very young and highly qualified, who, thanks to constant availability and attention, allow the company to tackle prestigious projects with technologically advanced design lighting fixtures. The same attention and availability that Design Luce makes available to its demanding customers on the market, where rules have changed. Thanks to companies such as Design Luce, architects are no longer forced to choose standard lamps to be inserted and adapted to the project but can have an ad hoc luminaire that fits perfectly with their ideas. The philosophy, which immediately took shape as the company’s mission, is to respond to a specific need and satisfy a need through prompt and exhaustive answers.

Through design and technology, experimenting with new forms, Design Luce can convert a simple idea into an extraordinary light project.