In contemporary interiors, well-being depends not only on what we see, but also on what we hear, or what we are finally no longer forced to endure. Open-plan offices, meeting rooms, restaurants, and common areas often suffer from constant background noise and uncalibrated lighting, conditions that compromise concentration, quality of time, and relationships.
Hush
Martinelli luce | 2019
Hush was born from this awareness: to illuminate and, at the same time, to attenuate noise. The system integrates light and sound absorption into a coherent, measured, and formally essential solution. Its strength lies in the ability to bring together different skills: the lighting culture of Martinelli Luce, the acoustic research of Caimi Brevetti with Snowsound technology, and a design vision geared towards the sensorial quality of space.
The result is a modular and parametric system, designed to adapt to different configurations without losing its identity. Hush doesn't simply add a light fixture to a sound-absorbing panel: it creates a clearer, more intimate, more human atmosphere. Even the name alludes to this intention: silence not as absence, but as a necessary condition for better perceiving what matters.
Strategy
Interpreting environmental comfort as a synthesis of light, sound, and perception.
Addressing the critical issues of shared spaces, where reverberation and noise impact the quality of daily life.
Create a cross-functional system suitable for workplaces, meeting rooms, reception areas, contract furnishing, and hospitality.
Enhance the synergy between different industrial skills, avoiding the logic of simple technical assembly.
Offering a sober formal language, capable of fitting into very different contemporary contexts.
Design
Modular suspension and wall system, designed to integrate lighting and sound absorption.
Soft and rigorous geometry at the same time: rounded profiles, light presence, clear horizontal line.
Multiple configurations, from a single linear element to more complex and scenographic compositions.
Structure designed to interact with acoustic panels and lighting fixtures in a unified way, without forced visual hierarchies.
Project parameterizable through dedicated algorithms, useful for adapting the system to different spatial needs.
Available in pendant, wall-mounted and panel-free configurations, maintaining family consistency.
Results
Hush redefines the concept of well-being in collective spaces, simultaneously intervening on light and acoustic quality.
The system improves the perceptual readability of the environment and promotes concentration, comfort and quality of stay.
The project demonstrates how a targeted collaboration between companies and complementary skills can generate a product with a precise identity.
Its modularity broadens its application in professional and hospitality contexts, without losing its expressive power.
Selezionato per ADI Design Index 2021.
Vincitore di iF Design Award 2021.
