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Architectural Lighting Design · Lima · Miami · Marbella

Great architecturedeserves lightingthat understands.

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KM Lighting Studio · founded in 2023Karen Mannheim · 33 years · 2,500+ projects · 6 countries

You spend yearson a space.

Every detail considered. Then lighting becomes an afterthought — and the architecture disappears.

We design light that reveals what you've already created. Not light you notice; light that makes the room, the material and the person inside it feel inevitable.

Our philosophy

Lighting designedfor the architecture.Not for the portfolio.

We listen to what each space wants to be — then design light that helps it become that. Single, intentional sources over flooded rooms. Deliberate pools of shadow that make warmth feel warmer.

The architecture is the vision. Lighting serves it.
Selected work

A portfolio,by typology.

The same studio that lights an art collector's home lights a tower, a beach house, a flagship, a jet.

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Trusted by

Studios Karenhas worked with.

Our range

Classical orcontemporary.

The language changes. The discipline doesn't.

RAMSA

Traditional

Lighting that honours heritage and craftsmanship
Elicyon London

Modern

Lighting that celebrates line and transparency
The technology

You design the room.We make the lightdisappear into it.

The light that feels like it was always there is the hardest kind to engineer. It takes more control, not less, to make light this calm.

The light

A light that dims like a candle.

Most LEDs hold the same cold tone all the way down. The sources we specify warm as they dim — from clean white to the amber of a flame, the way daylight fades.

The system

A house that keeps time with the sun.

The light shifts on its own: cool in the morning, golden at night. No switches to decode, no cold glow at midnight.

The control

One gesture, the whole room answers.

The control layer we specify holds every fixture in agreement. Scenes are composed in advance, so the room arrives complete at a single touch.

How we specify →
Great lighting disappears — the architecture remains —
Where we work

Six countries.One standard.

Residential needs scene control. Hospitality needs reliability at scale. Commercial needs adaptability.

Mapa mundial · fase 2Ciudades con obra entregada sobre proyección con grilla. Seis países con obra: Perú · Estados Unidos · España · EAU · Aruba · República Dominicana. Ciudades: Lima · Miami · Madrid · Marbella · Abu Dhabi · Palm Beach · Golden Beach · Coral Gables · Key Biscayne · Fisher Island · Aruba.
Let's begin

Tell us whatyou're building.

Whatever stage you're in — concept, tender, or a ceiling that's already closed. We'll tell you honestly if we're the right studio.

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