custom lighting Design, Fabrication & Installation Sydney

Bringing your vision to light, Di Emme delivers innovative custom lighting solutions for large & small projects across Australia.

Bespoke lighting design

Drawing on 30 years’ experience, we specialise in designing, manufacturing and installing large scale custom lighting.

Working with architects, designers and builders, we have created architectural lighting for The Star, Westfield and iconic hotels & restaurants both in Australia and overseas. We adopt collaborative approach ensuring that ideas and concepts are brought to life.

Fabrication

Our custom lighting pieces are designed and fabricated in Australia by experienced craftspeople. We use a wide variety of materials to produce high quality, innovative products that are as much about form as they are function.

Passionate Artisans

We are inspired by the endless possibilities, new materials, fresh ideas and the ambition to bring large projects to life. We specialise in creating bespoke architectural lighting with wow factor.

Our creative team works with engineers, builders and architects to understand what's possible in a given space; Weight, cost, durability, maintenance and safety as well as design factors all need to be considered. Our innovative team love producing the spectacular!

Installation

We can manage all elements of the custom lighting project including installation across Australia.

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Pullman Penrith Marcel Bistro and Bar

Custom lights with sleek modernist lines are comprised of steel frames in graduated sizes, fitted with wire mesh and finished with a custom-gold patina.

Tuneable LEDs Clifford Chance Law Offices

Stadium-shaped aluminium frames house five bands of tuneable LED. Acrylic cover plates fit flush with gilded aluminium frames with an applied patina that matches the joinery finishes.

Willowdale Hotel Bespoke Lighting

These stunning interior lights are a series of interlocking ovals comprised of around 6,000 individual lengths of chain link in bright gold polished anodised aluminium.

Ring Light Level 33 Sydney Place Precinct

Alkimi Studio designed the premium suites for Sydney’s tallest office tower at 180 George St and Di Emme created the custom pendant light with its six rings with aluminium housings surrounding opal acrylic diffusers.

Circular Light Bondi Pavilion Amenities

The circular light in the handwashing bay is constructed from stainless steel and painted black with Dulux Luxathene. It is lit with LED flexible 2700k strip.

Acrylic Blades Liverpool Catholic Club

The colourful lighting array is a clever arrangement of laser-etched acrylic plates that are top lit with tuneable LED.

Ramadan Nights Lakemba Lights

Di Emme crafted lamps and moon-shaped lanterns from powder-coated stainless steel with UV-rated acrylic and waterproof tuneable LED strips to illuminate the Ramadan Night Markets and as an enduring acknowledgment of the local culture.

Paspaley Festive Lights Martin Place

Di Emme created the Haron Robson-designed stars from acrylic spheres internally lit with LED buds and finished with a pearly lustre. The “pearls” are stored for the year, and Di Emme freshens up and installs the custom lighting for the holiday season.

Arrays of Ring Lights Engadine Tavern

Di Emme gilded the ceiling then added arrays of ring lights in the ceiling coffers of the Engadine Tavern gaming room. Di Emme created a small model to show the client the arrangement of the rings with their different pitches and diameters, manufactured the light rings from aluminium and installed them to match the scale model layout.

Circular Light Bondi Pavilion Foyer

A translucent membrane is backlit with tuneable LEDs ranging from daylight white, 6000K, to a warmer 2700K. The light is pre-programmed to change colour from day to evening.

Bespoke Lighting Mingara Recreation Club

From Luchetti Krelle’s design concept, Di Emme fashioned a stunning bespoke lighting from around 450 anodised aluminium tubes of various lengths, lit at one end with fibre optics. The mirrored-acrylic ceiling creates the illusion they are lit at both ends and doubles the radiance.

Fish Trap Custom Lights Foreign Return Surry Hills

Three weeks before opening, the owners approached Di Emme to create the statement fish trap-inspired lights. Di Emme met the brief, fabricating the wire frames, dying the netting a rich saffron to match the clients’ reference, stitching up the shades, and installing the completed lights to add a bright note in the dining room.

Union Hotel North Sydney, Custom Lighting

Paul Kelly Design (PKD) commissioned Di Emme to create a feature light for the refurbished gaming space. It is comprised of anodised aluminium flat bar punctuated by half-slivered bulbs throwing light upwards onto the stainless steel ceiling.

Custom Light Feature in Gregory Hills RSL

Di Emme created the spectacular lighting in the gaming area for hospitality specialists, Paul Kelly Design. The work involved threading hundreds of metres of brass ball chain into a ceiling-mounted channel.

Custom Light in Slumped Acrylic, Broadway Sydney

Installed at Broadway shopping centre and conceived by Electrolight, the slumped acrylic shapes create a sense of movement.

Wool and Fibre Optics, Sofitel Darling Harbour

A+ design group commissioned fibre artist, Jacqui Fink, to create the woollen elements of the awe-inspiring lights in the Esprit Bar. Di Emme created the frames and threaded 3000m of sparkle fibre optic cable to provide an ethereal glow.

Bee Lights, Parents Room, Westpoint Blacktown

Custom-made acrylic bee lights are hand-painted and internally lit.

Potts Point Hotel

Custom made uplight with slumped satin ice diffusers.

Custom Light Rings in Westfield Riccarton, NZ

Rings fashioned from aluminium, coated in gold leaf, and lit with LEDs and internal down lights.

Pendant Shades, Collegians Wollongong

Custom lighting crafted from industrial materials like these pendant shades made from metallic strips, enhance the industrial charm of the Collegians revitalisation.

Lobster Pot Lights at Ivanhoe Hotel, Manly

Lobster pot lighting feature in the rooftop cocktail bar reflects the hotel’s coastal setting.

Custom Lighting, Newcastle

Small globes positioned at intervals on a metal grid are reflected by mirrored ceiling creating a warm, playful light.

Mason Jar Lights, Collegians Wollongong

A wall of lights in mason jars produces a warm glow against the rustic exposed brick, complementing the lights fashioned from machinery cogs and metallic strips in Split Watermelon design studio’s Collegians club revitalisation.

Jellyfish Lights at Gateway, Circular Quay

Blown aluminium, laser cut acrylic sheets and layered, gilded MDF.