Winner: Architectural lighting design of the year 2025. L'Observatoire International has designed the lighting design for the Hermès collection at Milan Design Week 2025, using suspended boxes and colour halos to transform objects into luminous emotions within a light-filled scenography.

For Hermès at Milan Design Week 2025, L'Observatoire International – under the scenography of Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry – conceived a lighting scheme that transformed La Pelota into an immersive, ethereal space.

Suspended boxes cast vivid colour halos, turning objects into luminous emotions. Light was meticulously deployed to accentuate craftsmanship and guide a rhythmic discovery.

The result was an atmosphere of understated elegance, where each piece commanded attention.

This lighting design reinforces Hermès' artistry through an environment of clarity and restraint, enveloped in a soft, cloud-like glow.

Judges comments: "The designer of this exhibition has created an ethereal glow in the space by painting with colour and reflected light. The effect helped to give warmth to an otherwise clinical scenography and the result has been executed to a high quality level."

Studio: L'Observatoire International for Hermès
Project: Hermès' Collections at Milan Design Week 2025
Credits: Studio CMP