Artec Studio

We are back to work with a project that stops you in your tracks. This time in Portugal 🇵🇹

On a gentle rise above Meia Praia, where the pinewoods of the western Algarve give way to the Atlantic, Palmares Ocean Living & Golf unfolds across the landscape rather than over it. Designed in its entirety by Pritzker Prize winners RCR Arquitectes RCR Arquitectes for Kronos Homes Kronos Homes the resort gathers a clubhouse, residences and signature villas into a single architectural language: overlapping planes of red pigmented concrete, tinted with the clay of the Algarve soil, stepping down with the terrain toward the sea.

At the Casa Club, the social heart of Palmares, light works with the building’s tiered slabs and multifaceted columns. Warm, restrained illumination settles among the terraces and lounges without breaking the continuity between inside and out, letting the panorama of Meia Praia, the Alvor estuary and the Monchique hills remain the protagonist as day turns to evening on the Al Sud restaurant terrace.

For Maurici Ginés Maurici Ginés founder of Artec Studio, light could only be an extension of RCR’s architecture, never an addition to it. Luminaires reduced to their smallest expression, almost dematerialised, so that what is read is the architecture itself.

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Project info
Client: Kronos Homes
Architecture: RCR Arquitectes
Location: Lagos, Algarve (Portugal)
Year: 2025

Solo Delta Bronze Award 🟠

There’s a moment every evening when the sun touches the horizon and everything slows down. Solo for Vespre Design was born to hold onto that moment.

Now it holds a Delta Bronze at Premios Delta 2026, ADI-FAD’s recognition for the best industrial design in the country.

On view now as part of Premios Delta 2026 at Disseny Hub Barcelona.

📍 Disseny Hub Barcelona
📅 23.07.26 - 06.09.26

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Inside The Palace’s rooms, there’s no statement to make. A bedside lamp, a sconce by the headboard, a reading light angled just right: each piece chosen for its own presence.

That’s the whole idea, room by room: the hotel doesn’t perform for you here. It just works, quietly, the way a good hotel room always should.

☝️ This is the third and final chapter.
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In the common areas of The Palace Hotel, light stays in the background. The decorative pieces take the lead: period lamps, mid-century pieces, each one carrying its own identity. Our aim was to make sure those pieces read exactly as they were meant to.

Everything else stays behind. Recessed lighting, perimeter coves, accent points: they’re there to support, not to compete. A line of light that wraps around a boiserie. A warm glow that appears behind a panel. Accents that highlight paintings, marbles, lacquered woods, hand-painted wallpapers.

In corridors and circulation areas, discreet downlights and indirect light strips unify the path without drawing attention, letting the eye travel freely across illustrated carpets, wallpapers inspired by El Retiro, and mosaics depicting the Royal Botanical Garden from above.

✌️ This is the second of three chapters.

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Light that holds memory 🛎️

The Palace Hotel in Madrid, inaugurated in 1912, returns to full luminosity, and Artec Studio carried out the building’s lighting design. The idea was simple: help the building shine. In a National Monument, light is there to help you see the architecture, not to show off.

The biggest part of the work was the façade, more than 8,000 square metres of it. The original luminaires were recovered and adapted to today’s technology, keeping their character intact. The light is all there. It just stays quiet and lets the building speak.

☝️This is the first of three chapters.o

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Seven ways to experience light ✨

At the centre of the Showroom is the Light Theatre: a 300 sqm auditorium for up to 150 people where light is not a support element. It is the main actor.

Through a system of programmed and controlled scenes, the space explores seven approaches to light: Invisible, Human, Guide, General, Shape, Graphic and Color. Each one defines space, perception and atmosphere differently. The same volume shifts from a functional setting to a fully scenographic environment, combining light, time and sound.

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Project: iGuzzini Showroom Recanati
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Scenography + Light: Artec Studio
Location: Recanati, Italy
Year: 2026

DAISY 🌼

A luminous bloom suspended in space. Designed by for Daisy transforms light through delicate strands that reveal subtle patterns, textures and atmospheres.

✨ Selected for the Delta Awards 2026.

Light as experience ✨ We continue with the iGuzzini Showroom in Recanati.

Two areas, two ways of understanding light. In Retail, each scenario demonstrates how light defines value: it modifies the perception of the product, guides the eye and builds context. In culture area , function disappears. What remains is light as expressive matter, capable of transforming a space into an experience that needs no explanation.

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Project: iGuzzini Showroom Recanati
Architect: Atelier Alfonso Femia
Scenography + Light: Artec Studio
Location: Recanati, Italy
Year: 2026

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Light as experience ✨

The iGuzzini showroom in Recanati is built around a concrete premise: light is not explained, it is experienced. That principle organises the entire project, from the spatial layout to the logic of the journey.

The scenography, conceived by Artec Studio alongside architect Atelier Alfonso Femia, unfolds as a sequence of interconnected spaces. The visit can be guided or self-directed, with different durations and approaches depending on the visitor profile.

The result is a space designed for light to be understood and evaluated in real conditions.

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Project: iGuzzini Showroom Recanati
Architect: Atelier Alfonso Femia
Scenography + Light: Artec Studio
Location: Recanati, Italy
Year: 2026

🟠 The sun, brought indoors

SOLO is born from the warmth of a setting sun, that brief instant when light rests on the horizon before fading. A dual luminous effect: soft diffused light from the front, an indirect halo cast onto the wall behind. Colour filters tune the atmosphere toward the warm tones of dusk.

Selected for the Selecció Delta 2026, among the 203 projects shortlisted for the Premis Delta, the annual recognition of excellence in industrial design at a national level.
Available as wall and table lamp in 40 and 60 cm diameters, and as a 90 cm wall version.

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