The art of illumination

Text by DETAIL - Zeitschrift für Architektur + Baudetail
München, Germany
25.07.17

Illuminating places and transforming them into meeting points, traffic routes or public spaces for cultural exchange is a challenge. ewo, a family-owned company, has been doing this for more than 20 years.

ewo emerged from the metal factory in Sarntheim in 1996, and since then has focused on the distribution, control and limitation of light in public spaces. The starting point for all products is a modular LED light unit that generates precise and sustainable lighting scenarios of all sizes. ewo specializes in meeting individual requirements with respect to the shape, technology, colour and material of the lamps. Products for sensitive as well as extreme environments are carefully developed in close collaboration with customers, and manufactured at the company’s site in South Tyrol. ewo seeks to be curious, creative, and open, in order to be able to enter into a dialogue with the spatial and urban architecture and with art and design. Cultural and artistic aspects play a role during design work alongside technical refinement. The ewoLAB series initiates projects with artists, designers and architects, and focuses at different levels on light as a resource, resulting in luminaires of a kind that are ground-breaking in the industry.