At Maytoni, we’ve always believed that lighting is a thing of beauty, as well as one of practical necessity. The aesthetics of appealing design have always been a high priority for us, alongside recyclability and sustainability.
But ideas of both beauty and design evolve over time, and at Maytoni we’ve embraced this evolution through our dynamic young designers, who have challenged the use of conventional materials and styling to take our lighting to new and more contemporary heights.
Here are just a few examples of the latest in stylish lighting originality on offer fr om Maytoni.
Daring materials: what innovation is made of
Who said lighting must be made of metal? Or ceramic? Or wood? Or any other traditional material? Answer: tradition said it! But whilst design, in our view, must indeed be timeless, it should never be dated – and this is wh ere we challenge the status quo with bold and unexpected choices of materials that make for a strikingly modern effect.
Take felt, for example – a pliable textile that perhaps seems more suited to the manufacture of clothing or cuddly toys than the creation of beautiful and useful lighting. But our Cambio pendant lamp range reverses those preconceptions, with thick, fibrous, natural felt vanes that are simultaneously shapely, structural, and organic.
This is modern lighting that is unafraid to explore the new, but puts the learnings of the past to effective and responsible use; felt, which has been made for hundreds of years, is highly recyclable!
Such strong design and sustainability statements fr om a material that is so soft.
Rock-solid lighting design
But in the same way outstanding contemporary design can make softness convey strength, it can also make naturally harder materials – or the suggestion of them – speak volumes too.
Our Orign range of ceiling and wall lamps, for example, is crafted from metal, but the understated grey finish suggests something else entirely – igneous basalt rock, formed by heat and still exuding warmth today.
That said, beauty and appeal aren’t only to be found in natural materials. Concrete and concrete-like substance, long cherished by architects for their ease of use and versatility, are also taking contemporary lighting design forward.
They bring to it organic, rounded, moulded qualities, as in our Opus range, or, conversely, dense, compact, square-edged robustness, as in our Solid floor lamp.
Maytoni’s design has taken what’s hard to the touch and made it pleasing to the eye for discerning, modern audiences.
Cool elegance: the marble effect
But rock and concrete aren’t the only players in Maytoni’s drive to innovate modern lighting design – stone motifs like marble and marble effects are also a winning aesthetic in our contemporary design vocabulary.
These materials reflect the elegance of a bygone era but in cutting-edge modern idioms that combine lightness, cosmopolitan flair, and sleek minimalism.
Take Marmo, for example – a comprehensive range of lighting options for floor, ceiling, and wall, that fuses a beautiful, almost classical white marble with both geometric and organic brass-toned frames and mounts.
The same theme is evident in the Albatre wall lamp, wh ere the marble surround frames a futuristic lighting slit, and in the Memory range, whose black and white marble finishes contrast alluringly with each other.
The Kyoto range, for its part, echoes Memory with its dark and light tones, but with the added piquancy of distinctly Asiatic design cues – a look brilliantly in tune with the cultural realities of a changing world.
This is stone doing what stone does so well – oozing quality, style, and cool.
Get the designs the lighting world adores
All these designs met with a rapturous reception at one of Europe’s most prestigious lighting shows, Lichtwoche 2025, recently, demonstrating that at Maytoni, we have our finger on the design pulse and can elevate your lighting projects with innovations that perfectly capture modernity and resonate with today’s clientele.
To learn more about how we take lighting materials and styling into new territory, get in touch today.
But ideas of both beauty and design evolve over time, and at Maytoni we’ve embraced this evolution through our dynamic young designers, who have challenged the use of conventional materials and styling to take our lighting to new and more contemporary heights.
Here are just a few examples of the latest in stylish lighting originality on offer fr om Maytoni.
Daring materials: what innovation is made of
Who said lighting must be made of metal? Or ceramic? Or wood? Or any other traditional material? Answer: tradition said it! But whilst design, in our view, must indeed be timeless, it should never be dated – and this is wh ere we challenge the status quo with bold and unexpected choices of materials that make for a strikingly modern effect.
Take felt, for example – a pliable textile that perhaps seems more suited to the manufacture of clothing or cuddly toys than the creation of beautiful and useful lighting. But our Cambio pendant lamp range reverses those preconceptions, with thick, fibrous, natural felt vanes that are simultaneously shapely, structural, and organic.
This is modern lighting that is unafraid to explore the new, but puts the learnings of the past to effective and responsible use; felt, which has been made for hundreds of years, is highly recyclable!
Such strong design and sustainability statements fr om a material that is so soft.
Rock-solid lighting design
But in the same way outstanding contemporary design can make softness convey strength, it can also make naturally harder materials – or the suggestion of them – speak volumes too.
Our Orign range of ceiling and wall lamps, for example, is crafted from metal, but the understated grey finish suggests something else entirely – igneous basalt rock, formed by heat and still exuding warmth today.
That said, beauty and appeal aren’t only to be found in natural materials. Concrete and concrete-like substance, long cherished by architects for their ease of use and versatility, are also taking contemporary lighting design forward.
They bring to it organic, rounded, moulded qualities, as in our Opus range, or, conversely, dense, compact, square-edged robustness, as in our Solid floor lamp.
Maytoni’s design has taken what’s hard to the touch and made it pleasing to the eye for discerning, modern audiences.
Cool elegance: the marble effect
But rock and concrete aren’t the only players in Maytoni’s drive to innovate modern lighting design – stone motifs like marble and marble effects are also a winning aesthetic in our contemporary design vocabulary.
These materials reflect the elegance of a bygone era but in cutting-edge modern idioms that combine lightness, cosmopolitan flair, and sleek minimalism.
Take Marmo, for example – a comprehensive range of lighting options for floor, ceiling, and wall, that fuses a beautiful, almost classical white marble with both geometric and organic brass-toned frames and mounts.
The same theme is evident in the Albatre wall lamp, wh ere the marble surround frames a futuristic lighting slit, and in the Memory range, whose black and white marble finishes contrast alluringly with each other.
The Kyoto range, for its part, echoes Memory with its dark and light tones, but with the added piquancy of distinctly Asiatic design cues – a look brilliantly in tune with the cultural realities of a changing world.
This is stone doing what stone does so well – oozing quality, style, and cool.
Get the designs the lighting world adores
All these designs met with a rapturous reception at one of Europe’s most prestigious lighting shows, Lichtwoche 2025, recently, demonstrating that at Maytoni, we have our finger on the design pulse and can elevate your lighting projects with innovations that perfectly capture modernity and resonate with today’s clientele.
To learn more about how we take lighting materials and styling into new territory, get in touch today.
