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Hospitality
A hotel is judged at the door and remembered at the bar. We light the whole arrival, not only the rooms.
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Lighting Design Studio · Ahmedabad
Architecture, finishedafter dark.
Stellar Designs is an architectural lighting practice working across India, on homes, workplaces, hotels, temples and public realm. Fifty-three schemes, each detailed on paper before a single fitting is ordered.
Ikebana sample flat · AhmedabadAccent to calm, across a day
Practice
Light is not a fitting.It is how a spaceis finally understood.
Lights are fundamental to architecture and essential to human well-being. They create majestic design through a new-age combination of the visual, physical and biological effect of light on the human mind, and they shape behaviour, comfort, health, work efficiency, safety and security.
Which is why a scheme starts with the space rather than the schedule: what it is for, who is in it, and how long they stay.
- 53+
- Projects designed
- 7+
- States across India
- 1+
- International award
Typology of work
Six kinds of darkness, each with its own answer.
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Commercial
An office is occupied for nine hours at a stretch. The scheme has to hold up for all nine, then read well from the street.
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Residential
A home needs several schemes rather than one, and a switch layout simple enough that nobody has to think about it.
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Temples
Stone carved to be read in daylight has to be re-lit to be read at night. The grazing angle does most of the work.
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Urban & Landscape
A plaza is seen by more people than will ever walk into the building beside it. We light the route through it, not the plan of it.
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Light Art & Shows
Here the fitting stops being infrastructure and becomes the subject. The walk through it is the thing being designed.
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Recognition
[d]arc awards2023
- Category
- Places: Low Budget
- Citation
- Best Interior Lighting Scheme completed in 2023
- Project
- Tarang, India
More work
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Same room, same furniture, same finishes. The only thing that changes is the lighting layout. Cove, grazer, pendant, task and balcony wash, each doing one job. This is the drawing a client signs off before anything is ordered.
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Three-bedroom floor plate with bedrooms, living, dining, kitchen and balconies.
Residence · Interior scheme
Rendered / realised
What we promise is what gets switched on.
Every scheme is calculated and rendered before a single fitting is ordered, then supervised on site until the built result matches the drawing. Drag to compare the Ikebana sample flat.
On site
RenderedLiving & dining, Ikebana sample flat
On site
RenderedDining, Ikebana sample flat
Trusted by
Hotel groups, temple trusts and developers choose to light it with us.
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Tell us aboutthe space.
Wherever the project stands, whether a brief, a set of drawings or just a site waiting for a scheme, we will tell you plainly what it would take to light it properly.