About us

Content (ideas) comes first, form (tools) follows.

Foremost hugo neumann is a lighting consultancy.  In this role, our first mission consists in understanding the project’s nature, identifying needs and wishes.  From there, we bring our own and strive to create value for the project.

This added value usually express in various ways: most of the time, a sound and specific answer to a specific use in a specific location, a sustainable solution in time, a rationalization of maintenance and energy consumption, an optical quality, a rational lighting control management, etc. Sometimes, an unexpected use one can have of artificial light.

We know what can be achieved with artificial light and how it can be done.

Our studies are documented with professional lighting calculation and architecture software’s (RELUX, DIALUX, AutoCAD).

Our Philosophy

Hugo Neumann was created in 1928. We are specialized in artificial lighting solutions.

Whether natural or artificial, light is to architecture what it is to photography (???o?, photos : light ;  ???????, graphein : to paint , to draw, to write): it is both an ultimate goal in itself and an extraordinary means to reveal shapes, create contrast, drive people’s attention and behaviors. Eventually, lighting can achieve much more than just creating atmospheres. It is a true and subtle means of communication – a real media.

This basic principle makes us stand out from many actors in the lighting industry, who tend to limit the issue to two things: aesthetics and technical performance… period.

Many actors in the lighting industry tend to limit the issue to two things: aesthetics and technical performance… period.

We believe in a “third dimension of light” – “The Light of the Third Kind” –  a wider, more complex, yet more interesting perspective, we think. A scope where lighting issues become brilliant solutions – both literally and figuratively. And this, not only aesthetic or performance wise, but also in terms of ease of installation and maintenance (or absence of maintenance), sustainable development, rational consumption, optical quality and maybe even more importantly, in terms of perception one can have of an architecture (and consequently of its occupiers), through a particular use of lighting.

Cette philosophie sous-tend continuellement nos outils de travail et le choix des marques avec lesquelles nous travaillons – marques caractérisées par un haut degré de spécialisation : nous entendons en effet pouvoir avoir une approche aussi compréhensive que possible s’agissant de la lumière artificielle, nous permettant de couvrir des applications très différentes que l’on peut en avoir, mais tout en gardant cette approche spécialiste qui nous est chère. Nos solutions sont soit dédiées à un domaine d’application particulier (retail, office, entertainment, broadcast, art exhibition, museums, hotels, industry, outdoor architectural, public…), soit à une technologie particulière (technologies LED : lumière blanche –fixe et dynamique-, RGB dynamique, voire RGBW, Remote Controlled Lighting, lumière indirecte, etc.). Le plus souvent, il s’agit d’une approche combinant les deux.  Concrètement, nous combinons deux activités qui se complètent l’une l’autre : la consultance via notre bureau d’études et l’importation exclusive de marques spécialistes.

Dans notre approche, le fond préfigure la forme, dont Victor Hugo disait très justement qu’elle est « le fond qui remonte à la surface »