Luxury Touch
Much more than just switches. Pushing customisation and functionality to brave new heights to broaden the scope of domotics, PLH, creative Italian bespoke switch and keypad company, is on a roll by Marta Bernasconi
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n high end residences and megayachts, where perfection co-
nature of the products inspired the production process and offers an
mes as standard, details often take on a starring role. Italian
endless array of forms and materials, textures and finishes. As Corelli
company PLH has turned designing and producing lighting and
explains: “Even though for many, making one-off pieces would be
control plates and keypads into a decorative art with absolute
absurd, it is becoming routine for us. A normality that allows us to
personalisation a forgone conclusion.
meet the requirements of highly discerning architects and commis-
Founded in the early 2000s, the PLH brand grew out of an already
sioners who see the added emotional as well as aesthetic value in
well-established electronics and computerisation business as boss
our custom product”.
Enrico Corelli realised that domotics equipment and tools had a role
All of PLH’s collections, be they wired or wireless, can also be laser
to play as a décor elements in their own right. Taking its lead from
or plotter-personalised and given superior hand-finishes – satin, po-
specific signatures such as using solid metal (aluminium, steel, brass,
lished, micro-sanded to name but a few. This guarantees the ultimate
copper), wood and DuPontTM Corian® instead of plastic and a styli-
in exclusivity and ticks all the boxes for the luxury nautical sector.
stic appeal that endured the winds of fashion, PLH have produced
In fact, the company already works with several different high-end
increasingly multifaceted designs that have broadened the scope of
yards, including the Ferretti Group, Sanlorenzo, Baltic Yachts and
lighting design and domotics into an entirely new realm. The bespoke
Mazu. Its Slim and Neo collections are particularly popular with yacht
