NEWS

2023 Frame Award Winner

October 2023
T.O Pendant awarded Lighting of the Year!

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Uma Mini Feature

July 2023
Uma Mini featured in the New York Times. 

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Core 77 Design Award

July 2023
Carousel wins 2023 Core 77 Design Award. 

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Paris Design Award 2023

July 2023
T.O wins 2023 Paris Design Award. 

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HiP Award Winner

June 2023
Nivél wins 2023 Interior Design HiP Award. 

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LED Lights Keep Improving

May 2023
T.O Pendant featured in New York Times. 

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2022 Best Lighting Products

December 2022
 T.O was the winner of the Best Lighting products 2022 for Architectural Record magazine.

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2022 Architizer A+ Product Awards

November 2022
Finalist in Decorative & Free Standing Lighting - T.O

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European Product Design Award 2022

August 2022
Bola Lantern wins 2022 European Product Design Award in illumination!

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Sixtysix

June 2022
T.O highlighted at NeoCon 2022!

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Azure

June 2022
Luci is featured alongside other portable, "go-anywhere" lamps.  

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HiP Award Winner

June 2022
T.O wins 2022 Interior Designs HiP award

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ICON

March 2022
Patricia Urquiola designs Haworth Hotel in Michigan

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Vancouver Sun

February 2022
The Vancouver Sun covers Pablo Design latest product development in the portable lamp space. They highlight the upcoming Luci and Nivél product families. 

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ICFF 2021 Spotlights

December 2021
Take a brief look into some of the highlights from this years International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City!

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IDA Award 2020

February 2021
Sky Dome was awarded a Silver award in the 2020 International Design Award competition in the Product category. Sky Sound was also mentioned in their coverage.

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Diseño Interior

November 2020
Talia gets covered in the Diseño Interior Magazine.

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METROPOLIS

October 2020
Sky Dome is chosen by Metropolis as one of its #metropolislikes from the NYCxDESIGN 2020. 

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Azure

May 2020
Our Candél portabe lamp is recognized by Azure magazine

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Dwell

December 2019
Bola Felt was featured in Dwell's 2019 Made In America Series

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Interiores Minimalistas

December 2019


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SoyBCM

December 2019


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Koax

December 2019


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O Magazine

August 2019
Pixo Plus gets highlighted in Oprah's List for Back to School. 

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Avenue

August 2019


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Marin Magazine

July 2019
Seeing the Light, Pablo Pardo seeks the human elemeent in lighting design. 

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Veneta Cucine

May 2019



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La Vanguardia Magazine

May 2019


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Washington Post

October 2018


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CORE 77 DESIGN AWARD

October 2018


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IDA DESIGN AWARD

June 2018


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GOOD DESIGN AWARD

April 2018


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INTERIOR DESIGN

December 2017


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INTERIOR DESIGN

May 2017


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METROPOLIS

March 2017


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SF GATE

March 2017


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Sky Delta

March 2017


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LIGHTING UK

March 2017


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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD

January 2017


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SF CHRONICLE

December 2016


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FORTUNE MAGAZINE

December 2016


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BLOOMBERG MAGAZINE

November 2016


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WIRED MAGAZINE

November 2016


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German Design Award winner 2016

October 2016


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METROPOLIS MAGAZINE

October 2016


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DESIGN MILK

October 2016


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New York Times

September 2016


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San Francisco Chronicle

September 2016


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INTERIOR DESIGN

June 2016


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IN STYLE

June 2016


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AZURE MAGAZINE

June 2016


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Oprah Magazine

June 2016


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The Globe and Mail

April 2016


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WALL STREET JOURNAL

April 2016


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PLAISIRS DE VIVRE

March 2016


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AZURE

March 2016


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DESIGNLINES

March 2016


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GLOCAL

December 2015


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IIDEX Gold Innovation Award

December 2015
IIDEXCanada has honored Pablo and LightForm with the 2015 Gold Innovation Award in Lighting Design 

Thank you to all members of IIDEX for your recognition.

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METROPOLIS Magazine

December 2015


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SUNDAY TIMES

November 2015


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DWELL 2015

November 2015


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Harpers Bazaar

November 2015


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EL UNIVERSAL

November 2015


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Conde Nast Design

October 2015


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INSTYLE Magazine

September 2015


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METROPOLIS Magazine

July 2015


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LUXURY Magazine

July 2015


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RESIDENTIAL LIGHTING

July 2015


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ESTILO Mexico

July 2015


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DESIGN MILK

June 2015
Design Milk highlights the newest lighting from Pablo, the UMA Lantern.

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ICFF Spotlights

May 2015
International Contemporary Furniture Fair has selected Pablo's 2015 product launch for one of their Spotlights of ICFF. See what they have to say about the latest Uma, Lana, Contour, and Vella collections.

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Azure Magazine

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San Francisco Chronicle

August 2014
The San Francisco Chronicle highlights San Francisco Travel's new offices designed by Rapt Studio's Hakee Chang. The Senior Designer of Rapt had a list of criteria for his vision which included keeping the space local and keep the employees inspired to sell the city. For Chang this included sourcing pieces from San Francisco artists and designers, including an expansive display of Pablo's latest product, Circa Pendant.

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The New York Times

May 2014
Pablo’s LED Lana lamp includes a felt shade that is made in part from recycled water bottles and attaches to the stem with magnets. The shade rotates 360 degrees.

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Elle Decor Italia

May 2014
L'artista Pablo Pardo invece ama farsi chiamare artigiano, più che designer. Lavora ancora tutto a mano nel suo laboratorio e ha presentato la sua nuova lampada Lana.

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Pablo awarded 2014 ASID "Best of the Best" in Lighting

February 2014
The American Society of Interior Designers Metro NY Chapter has chosen Pablo for its 2014 Winter Best of the Best Award in the Lighting Category. Pablo would like to thank all ASID members, particularly of the Metro NY chapter, for recognizing our line with this prestigious award.

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Luxe Magazine

December 2013


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The New York Times

October 2013
Pablo Pardo, a Venezuelan-born industrial designer who worked for Fisher-Price and DaimlerChrysler, started his own lighting company, Pablo, in San Francisco 20 years ago. The business has grown in prestige because of products like Circa, a new lamp that supplies balanced light via a flat-panel LED screen.

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Design Bureau

September 2013


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Pablo wins 2013 NYNOW's Accent on Design award for Excellence in Product Design for Circa Collection

August 2013
Pablo continues to receive accolades at NYNOW (formerly New York International Gift Fair), taking home the Summer 2013 award for Excellence in Product Design for its Circa Collection. Circa is Pablo's newest lighting system featuring flat-panel LED technology offered in Floor, Table, Wall Sconce, and Pendant models. Available Fall 2013.


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Pablo 2013 Product Launch Party

December 2012


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Surface Magazine

November 2012


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San Francisco Chronicle

June 2012
This San Francisco Chronicle article follows world-renowned interior architect Orlando Diaz-Azcuy as he uses his expertise and unique eye for design to point out the best new products of the 2012 International Contemporary Furniture Fair. When Diaz-Azcuy visited the Pablo Designs Booth, he stated “I see nothing but first-rate creativity and quality at Pablo.”

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Metropolis

May 2012
Lighting was the most interesting category this year, with LED technology generating stimulating new design concepts. Pablo’s Circa Lamp, one of several using flat panel LED light source, was unique in its design allowing the panel to pivot to direct the light where needed, and giving a warm balanced ambient light.

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The New York Times

May 2012
By no means was industrial technology absent from the fair, but much of it assumed an attitude of humility, seizing every opportunity to hide itself… The lighting company Pablo introduced an LED ceiling fixture called Cielo that integrates the transformer required to dim the light, rather than exiling it to a bulky external box.

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ICFF 2012

May 2012
Pablo Designs launches four new products at New York’s ICFF. On the path to becoming a global leader in LED lighting, Pablo’s clean aesthetic, attention to detail and quest for innovation was on display from the booth design to the latest in LED flat panel technology. Three new LED task lamps, LIM360, Clamp FS, Pixo Colors, and one LED suspension lamp, Cielo, will be available for purchase in October 2012.

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Red Dot Design Award: Best Product Design
and Innovation 2012

March 2012
Pablo is very proud to announce that Pixo has been selected as a winner of this year's Red Dot Award for Best Product Design and Innovation. The Red Dot Awards are among the most renowned design awards in the world and our design was selected from over 4500 product entries.

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Red Dot Design Award: Best Product Design
and Innovation 2012

March 2012
Pablo is very proud to announce that Clamp has been selected as a winner of this year's Red Dot Award for Best Product Design and Innovation. The Red Dot Awards are among the most renowned design awards in the world and our design was selected from over 4500 product entries.

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Metropolitan Home

January 2012


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Wall Street Journal

October 2011
The Wall Street Journal highlights the new generation of LED task lamps. The article emphatically states that the light quality of new LED’s “rivals that of the beloved incandescent bulb.” The article then reviews five of the leading LED task lamps including Pablo Designs’ Clamp lamp. Wall Street Journal contributor Michael Hsu states of the Clamp Lamp “if the shakers had created an LED lamp, this would be it.”

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New York International Gift Fair: Best Collection Award

February 2010
The NYIGF judges stated that “Since 1993, Venezuelan-born industrial designer Pablo Pardo’s designs have exemplified an uncompromising devotion to simplicity and usefulness, fusing the highest technical sensibilities with the most appropriate material pallet. The collection, which is both innovative and traditional, includes LED task lighting and energy-rated incandescent or halogen ambient lighting.

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iF 2010 Product Design Award in Germany

January 2010
Established in 1953, the iF product design award is now among the most important awards for innovative product design.

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Interior Design: Best of the Year Winner - Lighting

December 2009
LIM is designed as a multi-purpose, multi-task LED lighting platform whose simple elemental structure can be reconfigured and applied to address multiple lighting requirements across a variety of applications within various markets to include: contract office, institutional, hospitality and residential.

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Elle Decor

September 2009


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International Contemporary Furniture Fair: Editor's Choice Award for Best Lighting

May 2009
A participant of ICFF for the past fifteen years and winner of last year’s 2008 ICFF’s Editor’s Choice Best Lighting award, Pablo comes home with this prestigious honor for a second year in a row.

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I.D. Annual Design Review Honoree

January 2009
Since 1954, this prestigious annual showcase has chronicled the evolution of design and highlighted its impact on our material and visual culture. Each year, the featured work is chosen by a jury of leading practitioners, who, along with I.D.’s team, focus the abundance of submissions into a clear survey of the state of design.

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International Design Excellence Awards - IDEA Silver Award

January 2009
This task lamp puts the light right where you need it. A concentrated array of high-power LEDs provides a brighter light output than most other lamps in this category. Its 180-degree movement allows precise adjustability without taking up valuable work space. And its ultraslim profile, smooth bright details, and colorful finishes reflect today's electronic age.

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Gold Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA)

July 2008
The award-winning Brazo received the 2008 Gold Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA). The Brazo's reputation for sustainable design, precision technical detail and clean aesthetic served it well and coincided nicely with all of this year’s (IDEA) competition winners. Out of 1517 entries, only 35 were awarded the coveted Gold award.

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International Contemporary Furniture Fair: Editor's Choice Award for Best Lighting

May 2008
At the 2008 New York International Contemporary Furniture Fair a panel of distinguished U.S. and international editors bestowed Pablo the Editors Award for Best Lighting. The award is among the industry’s highest accolade—only 16 of the 600 exhibitors displaying contemporary furnishing received this prestigious award.

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California Home Design

January 2008


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Best of Competition, Best of Neocon Gold

June 2007
We are pleased to announce that BRAZO has garnered a Best of Show Award at this years NEOCON Contract Furniture Exposition in Chicago. This is a first ever for a lighting product!!! Praised for its highly sustainable LED and renewable materials platform, BRAZO is the first task light to feature focus control—providing both calibrated beam spread and directional light focus. BRAZO is available in both table and floor models.

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