What Visible Lighting Studio does

Visible Lighting Studio is a private, boutique lighting design consultancy headquartered in Madrid, Spain, founded in 2021 by architects Inés Llaneza and Isabel Sánchez, who met while studying at Universidad Europea de Madrid. The studio provides multidisciplinary architectural and interior lighting design services across six verticals: hospitality venues, corporate offices, showrooms, museums, residential projects, and commercial spaces. There is no software product; the offering is a professional services engagement that integrates lighting design with adjacent furniture and spatial design expertise to reveal the material and textural qualities of each project.

The firm's value proposition rests on the founders' international training and prior studio experience. Co-founder Inés Llaneza completed a Master's in Furniture and Lighting Design at Art Center College of Design (Los Angeles) on scholarship and spent more than four years at FKA Studio working on hospitality, corporate office, and showroom projects along the US West Coast. Co-founder Isabel Sánchez holds an MFA in Lighting Design from Parsons, The New School for Design (New York), worked as a Lighting Designer and Project Manager at Dot Dash in New York on museum, residential, and commercial projects, and has been recognized internationally through the Lumens Award. The studio's differentiator is the combination of these complementary design and project management skill sets.

Visible Lighting Studio operates a sales-led, project-based professional services model with revenue generated through custom lighting design engagements. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is likely scoped per project. The firm is founder-owned with no disclosed institutional investment, parent company, or external funding. Its distribution relies on direct client engagement with architects, developers, hospitality brands, and corporate entities, supplemented by portfolio visibility and professional network referrals. Headcount is in the 1-10 range and revenue is not disclosed.

Name

Visible Lighting Studio

Legal name

Visible Lighting Studio

Website

https://visiblelightingstudio.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Visible Lighting Studio is a private Madrid-based boutique lighting design consultancy founded in 2021 by architects Inés Llaneza and Isabel Sánchez, providing multidisciplinary architectural and interior lighting design for hospitality, corporate, museum, residential, and commercial clients on a project basis.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Lighting Design Services

NAICS

Interior Design Services (54141)

akta.pro primary industry

Lighting Design Services (BPAHAKAJ)

Keywords

• Architectural lighting design
• Interior lighting design
• Hospitality lighting
• Lighting design consultancy
• Commercial lighting design

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Lighting Design Services: Custom lighting design services for architectural projects including hospitality, corporate offices, showrooms, museum, residential, and commercial spaces. Revenue is generated through project-based consulting engagements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Visible Lighting Studio is a Madrid-based multidisciplinary design studio that provides bespoke architectural and interior lighting design services for hospitality venues, corporate offices, showrooms, museums, residential, and commercial spaces. Each engagement is a custom project in which the studio designs lighting experiences that reveal the possibilities of space, forms, materials, and textures, delivered by its two co-founders.

Product overview

Visible Lighting Studio is a multidisciplinary lighting design studio based in Madrid, Spain, founded in 2021 by Inés Llaneza and Isabel Sánchez. Rather than offering a software product, the company provides professional lighting design services for hospitality, corporate offices, showrooms, museums, residential, and commercial projects. The studio does not appear to offer named software products, modules, or digital offerings based on available source data.

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Products and services

• Architectural and Interior Lighting Design Services Bespoke, project-based lighting design for architectural and interior spaces, delivered by the co-founders to clients such as architects, developers, hospitality brands, corporate offices, and property owners. Each engagement is custom and covers conceptual lighting design, integration with space, forms, materials, and textures.
• Hospitality Lighting Design Custom lighting design for hospitality venues, drawing on the co-founders' experience at FKA Studio (US West Coast) and Dot Dash (New York) on hospitality, corporate offices, and showrooms projects.
• Corporate Office Lighting Design Custom lighting design for corporate office environments, tailored to the spatial and functional requirements of office spaces and built on the co-founders' prior work at FKA Studio on corporate and showroom projects.
• Showroom Lighting Design Custom lighting design for showroom environments, leveraging the co-founders' experience at FKA Studio delivering showroom projects along the US West Coast.
• Museum Lighting Design Custom lighting design for museum installations, drawing on Isabel Sánchez's prior work as Lighting Designer and Project Manager at Dot Dash in New York on museum projects.
• Residential Lighting Design Custom lighting design for residential spaces, based on the co-founders' prior experience delivering residential projects, including at Dot Dash in New York.
• Commercial Lighting Design Custom lighting design for commercial spaces, drawing on Isabel Sánchez's prior experience at Dot Dash in New York on commercial projects.

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Technology focussed No

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Expansion highlights3 records

Others

• Flos: Italian architectural lighting manufacturer with deep roots in design-led specifier relationships. Not a competitor for design services, but a frequent fixture partner and ecosystem participant that boutique lighting studios specify into projects.

Direct peers

• Light Bureau: International boutique lighting design practice with offices in Copenhagen and Toronto. Comparable size and service model focusing on architectural lighting design for commercial, cultural, and hospitality clients, with similar project-based consulting motion.
• Dot Dash: NYC-based boutique lighting design studio where co-founder Isabel Sánchez previously worked as Lighting Designer and Project Manager. Directly comparable boutique practice delivering lighting design for museum, residential, and commercial projects in a similar size and service model.
• Nulty Innovation: UK-based boutique lighting design consultancy (formerly Nulty+) working on hospitality, retail, residential, and commercial projects. Closely matched size and service offering with strong founder-led brand identity and international project ambitions.
• FKA Studio: West Coast US lighting design studio where co-founder Inés Llaneza worked for 4+ years on hospitality, corporate offices, and showroom projects. Closely aligned boutique practice with similar vertical mix and project-based delivery model.

Broad incumbents

• Speirs Major: Internationally established lighting design practice with offices in London, New York, and beyond. Operates at significantly larger scale than Visible Lighting Studio with broader portfolio across architecture, masterplanning, and landscape lighting, but competes for the same high-end architectural lighting mandates.
• Bartenbach: Austrian lighting design and research firm with deep technical specialization in daylight and artificial lighting. Established European incumbent with broader capabilities (research, product development) that competes for premium architectural lighting briefs.
• Tillotson Design Associates: Long-established New York lighting design firm working on museums, retail, hospitality, and cultural institutions. Larger and more recognized boutique incumbent that competes for premium museum and cultural lighting commissions Visible Lighting Studio also targets.
• L'Observateur International: NYC-based lighting design practice with international reach across hospitality, retail, and cultural projects. Established incumbent with broader portfolio and global client base, but operates on similar boutique architectural lighting design principles.

Regional players

• Artec3 Studio: Barcelona-based multidisciplinary lighting design studio with a similar boutique profile and overlapping vertical focus (architecture, hospitality, museums). Most direct Spanish peer, operating in the same regional market and often competing for the same Iberian clients.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

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Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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