Over the last years, the market for lighting fixtures in Europe has completely changed due to major technological advances. LEDification, consolidation in production and changes in consumption are some of processes that led to its transformation.

Benefiting from favourable economic conditions, the lighting fixture market of the Central-European countries has increased by more than 33% during the last six years. Poland is by far the most important market: alone, it accounts for almost 50% of the production and more than 40% of the consumption of the entire region.

In five years, LED technology has achieved an impressive level of penetration; homogeneous in the main lighting markets worldwide. However, a harsh process of selection has already begun and new entry barriers have already be established.

In the past years, the lighting industry has been a subjected to two opposite forces: a progressive concentration of the production, from one hand, and the birth of a growing number of startups from the others.

The result is an inspiring mix of classical archetypes and futuristic technology. These are the trends for the 2016/17 season. Trend Forum showcases four home scenarios with the consumer needs of tomorrow...