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Fagerhult Fjord

Fjord leads the way – with optimized optics and fewer points of installation

When Fagerhult now launches Fjord – a bollard in two heights and with several light distributions – new opportunities are available when lighting outdoor environments. The luminaire meets high demands on efficiency and installation without compromising on either lighting design or aesthetics.

Stockholm City Hall, Nobel Week Lights. Photo: Christan Åslund

Fagerhult x Nobel Week Lights – a partnership highlighting innovation and a brighter future

Fagerhult becomes Principal Partner of the Nobel Week Lights, an annual light festival presented by the Nobel Prize Museum. During Nobel Week, Dec 2–10, a tribute is made through the art of light to the Nobel Prize laureates and their contributions to the greatest benefit to humankind. A solid shared passion for light and innovation links the partnership between Nobel Week Lights and Fagerhult.

United to create healthier, more productive indoor environments

United to create healthier, more productive indoor environments

The four companies Camfil, Condair, Fagerhult and Swegon have teamed up to establish Healthy Indoors Alliance, a joint initiative to improve the healthfulness, productivity and comfort of the people in commercial, public and residential buildings. The website, healthyindoors.eu, features comprehensive information vital to understanding how we can create sustainable, healthy indoors.

Hear interior design company Kinnarps thoughts on how the office might be redefined post-pandemic.

Redefining the workplace - a visionary outlook on the office from Kinnarps

Interior design company Kinnarps originated as a family owned business (and still is to this day) from the country side - and is now a synonym internationally for ergonomics and quality. We have met with Henrik Axell, Workplace strategist, and Johanna Walden, Brand and concept marketing manager, to hear their thoughts on how we can redefine the workplace post-pandemic.

The European standard for lighting in indoor workplaces, EN 12464-1, has been revised. Here are the news.

Keep up with standards

This autumn 2021 a revised version of EN 12464-1 is published, which sets requirements for Lighting of indoor work places. We met with Tommy Govén, Senior Designer and Adviser in Light and Lighting, and Klas Rejgård, Standard Specialist at Fagerhult, to learn more.

Post-pandemic, many companies has re-evaluated what the purpose of the physical office is. Here are some examples of why we still need the workplace.

What is the purpose of the office?

Our flexible and digital way of working during the past year has changed the way we perceive what can pass as a work space. But, post-pandemic, what is really the purpose of a physical office space? We need a place where we can collaborate, have a good working environment - and come home from, and separate work and free time.

Experiencing a brand is more than just the logo. It is the smell, the sound and the light as well. (Photo: Alexander Ruas)

Feel the brand

Why is it that we expect a certain type of music in a jeans shop? And how is it that we notice instantly when the music might be “wrong”? We perceive our environment with all our senses, and the sensory stimuli triggers feelings within us. But does the sensory impressions influence my will to shop?

Living with dementia can be confusing and emotionally turbulent. But light therapy can help balance some of the symptoms. (Photo: Ola Ericson)

Agitated, anxious and alone - living with Dementia

For many people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) life can be confusing and emotionally turbulent. But light therapy can help balance some of the symptoms.

Light can ease the every day life for people suffering from demensia. (Photo: Sofia Sabel)

Setting the biological clock - with light

Even though we consider ourselves modern people, our brains are really not that up to date. We are still biological creatures, affected by the shifts in nature - something that is very apparent in the Health and Care sector.
Apart from its central role in vision itself, light is important for many physiological and psychological processes for us humans. It can improve concentration, affect our

Dr Shelley James at Age of Light Innovations Group (Photo: Marcus Ahmad).

Lighting first aid for the TikTok-generation

When lighting expert Shelley James realized how lockdown affects the wellbeing of kids and teenagers, she was shocked. Now she is joining forces with Fagerhult to improve the light health of the TikTok-generation.

Physical problems, pain and posture - effects of working from home during Covid 19.

Effects of working from home during Covid -19

More people are working from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. While avoiding the office and staying socially distant is crucial to stopping the spread of the virus, working from home can bring about other health concerns. Here are some risks to take into account – but also examples of how you can find variation at your home office desk.

Double Dynamic Lighting (DDL) is a lighting design concept for dynamic indoor lighting.

​Double Dynamic Lighting - combining two worlds

Double Dynamic Lighting (DDL) is a lighting design concept for dynamic indoor lighting. In short, you adjust the electrical lighting in real time so that it complements daylight. This is to be able to create more motivating and engaging environments and increase well-being in indoor spaces. Meet professor Ellen Kathrine Hansen, one of the forces behind it.

Prep Work Exhibition at Tegelviksgatan 32, Stockholm

Exhibition exploring the workplace of the future

With the ambition to show the latest and upcoming ideas for the workplace, Fagerhult has developed a new exhibition – Prep Work - together with the design studio Note. Prep Work explores the design, spatial and sensorial factors that synergise within the workplace of the future to improve morale, creativity, wellbeing and productivity.

Skywalker pendant

Award for high design quality: Skywalker receives a Red Dot

A show stopper at its pre-launch during the Light and Building Fair and now a Red Dot Product Design winner. Skywalker is the latest collaboration between Fagerhult and leading Innovations Consultants Above, a pendant with a unique form and exceptional light quality, developed to enhance the user experience in the contemporary workplace.

Tuning light temperature with one luminaire

Tuning light temperature with one luminaire

Marathon Tunable is a new interesting spotlight from Fagerhult. It is developed for the retail segment but works well for all type of areas that have the need for flexibility in white colour temperature.

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Light for better living.

Fagerhult creates premium lighting solutions that enhance human well-being in professional and public environments. With sustainability and connectivity at heart, we focus on office, education, healthcare, retail and outdoor applications. We work closely with customers and partners in the European market and provide lighting solutions globally – with tailor-made solutions for our customers.

The Fagerhult brand includes both the product company Fagerhults Belysning AB (based in Fagerhult, Sweden) and 12 sales companies located around Europe. Based on knowledge of the positive impact of light on humans, we develop and produce innovative lighting solutions that are marketed and sold via Fagerhult's sales company. In total, we are about 1,000 people, of which close to 37% are women and 63% men. (Figures from 31 December 2022)

Fagerhult is part of the Fagerhult Group, one of Europe's leading lighting companies, with 12 different brands and 4,200 employees in 27 countries around the world.