Vistosi's fifth victory at the German Design Awards: Dione wins in the Lighting category.

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Vistosi's fifth victory at the German Design Awards: Dione wins in the Lighting category.

Vistosi wins fifth German Design Award

After winning the 2025 Archiproducts Design Award, the Dione collection adds a new and prestigious recognition to its international career, winning the 2026 German Design Award in the Excellent Product Design – Lighting category.

This is Vistosi's fifth victory at the German Design Awards, a result that confirms the company's ability to consistently stand out in the most important international design scenarios.

Promoted by the German Design Council, an institution founded in 1953 with the aim of promoting design as a driver of innovation, culture, and economics, the German Design Awards represent one of the most prestigious awards in the industry. Each year, they honor projects that stand out for their design quality, innovation, sustainability, and aesthetic value, helping to define new directions in contemporary design.

In recent years, Vistosi has built a strong legacy, winning five awards at the German Design Awards: Groove in 2024, Anisette, Faro, and Riketta in 2025, and now, Dione in the 2026 edition.

This achievement is part of a history studded with successes: over the past twenty years, the company has received over 35 international design awards, awarded to collections that have become true icons of the Vistosi catalog. This journey demonstrates the strength of a design vision capable of combining the tradition of Murano blown glass with technological innovation and formal research, creating a language of lighting recognizable worldwide.

The 2025–2026 edition of the German Design Awards attracted record numbers, with thousands of applications from 59 countries, over 2,000 participating companies, and 33 projects awarded in the Lighting category. The international jury, composed of experts from 16 nations, awarded Dione for his compositional elegance, the purity of his forms, and the excellence of his technical solution.

Dione: balance between modularity, light and matter

Designed to interpret light as a true architectural element, Dione is based on a modular system that combines design rigor, technical research, and aesthetic refinement. The collection comprises two white frosted glass diffusers of different diameters, which can be used individually or combined with a third element that integrates two independent LED sources, which can be managed separately to offer versatile and customizable lighting.

The ability to control the two light sources independently allows for the creation of different lighting scenarios, adapting intensity and atmosphere to the needs of the space. A balance between functionality and poetry makes Dione a solution capable of interacting with residential, contract, and hospitality environments.

The diffusers slide along the power cables and can be freely positioned at different heights, offering ample compositional freedom. Each installation can thus assume a unique configuration, transforming the lamp into a dynamic element that redefines space through interplays of balance, rhythm, and proportions. The essential forms of glass seem suspended in the air, creating light and dramatic compositions that change character based on the arrangement of the elements.

With Dione, Vistosi once again interprets Murano blown glass with a contemporary perspective, highlighting its material purity and extraordinary ability to shape light. The result is a collection that combines craftsmanship and innovation, transforming light into an expressive language capable of stirring emotion and defining the identity of spaces. A project that embodies the company's distinctive values—manufacturing mastery, technological research, and design culture—and whose design quality has been confirmed by the most prestigious international awards.

The designers: atelier oï

Founded in 1991 in La Neuveville, Switzerland, atelier oï is an international architecture and design studio known for its interdisciplinary approach, combining architecture, interior design, product design, and scenography into a single vision.

The studio's name itself encapsulates its philosophy: the letters O, I, and A respectively refer to Object, Idea, and Action, three elements that constantly interact throughout the creative process. Each project is based on the pursuit of a balance between matter, function, and emotion, with a particular focus on experimentation with materials, artisanal quality, and sensory experience.

The collaboration between atelier oï and Vistosi stems from shared values: respect for the tradition of Murano glassblowing, ongoing research into innovation, and the desire to transform light into an element capable of defining space and creating emotion. With Dione, the studio interprets these principles through an essential and sophisticated collection, in which modularity, compositional lightness and formal purity blend into a project with a strong contemporary identity.