The world’s first catalogue for sustainable, reclaimed lighting

About the Catalogue

This is the world’s first light fixture catalogue focused on reclaimed lighting for the professional market. It is a showdown with the linear economy which not only honours Danish design heritage, but proves that great design solutions can be sustainable and cost-competitive.

Lighting fixtures for commercial and public construction are currently designed to suit a linear economy where the solutions have a limited lifespan and cannot be repaired. At the same time, millions of existing light fixtures made of high quality materials are discarded simply due to the interior electronics being outdated. This results in unsustainable resource expense, which contravene the goals of the Paris Agreement.

By reusing light fixtures, we can conserve a number of valuable resources and save a significant amount of CO2. It is therefore a part of waste reduction in construction and the mitigation of over-consumption along with its negative effects.

Our catalogue focusses on the highest quality vintage fittings which are themselves, design classics. We rejuvenate these fittings with our patented LED systems that are modular and updatable. When a new solution is required, we use the reclaimed lamps for the basis of new fixtures with a updated appearance and technical performance

All our fixtures are low energy, high quality and designed for disassembly and exchange. By salvaging the highest quality parts, we can compete on price with other companies’ fixtures that are less sustainable, and lower in quality.

A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) from DTU has shown that reuse and conversion of existing light fixtures saved 43% extra CO2.* versus the purchase of an equivalent new fixture at the point of installation. *LCA by Asger Wendt Karl and associate professor Morten Birkved from DTU.

NB. Construction and demolition waste is one of the most voluminous, heavy and resilient waste streams in the EU.