About the Designer
FLORIN PANLILIO
Founder of FUNCTIONAL LIGHTING ORIGINS
WBE Certified, Design IALD, IES, Women in Lighting + Design (WILD)
Florin’s first foray into the world of design was through Interior Design, where she quickly developed a passion for lighting. With her scientific curiosity and ability to visualize spaces in 3D, she naturally gravitated towards lighting design, turning creative ideas into illuminating realities. In the US, she’s worked on a range of projects, including civic centers, innovation and design for universities, headquarters for a major social media outlet, and residential designs. Her international portfolio includes lighting design for hotels, shopping centers, and tennis facilities. After gaining experience at lighting design firms in New York and San Francisco, Florin is now based in Atlanta, where she’s launched her own Lighting Design practice, ready to embrace new challenges and continue learning from every project and collaborator she encounters.
Todd Anthony
" It was a pleasure to collaborate with Florin on a recent 30K sq ft lux project. Not only did Florin offer creative solutions, but some of the brand new fixtures that I had not seen in the market took the finished lighting design to a new level."
Darrell Hawthorne
ARCHITECTURE & LIGHT
" She is a highly capable designer with the curiosity to explore architectural space and light, the skill to specify the right equipment to achieve those ideas, the proficiency to professionally document all the requirements, AND importantly, she is smart enough to always seek advice and information for that which she does not know."
Aida Miron
“She is an amazing lighting designer because has a great eye for detail, aesthetics and a clear spatial acuity. With warmth as a leader to younger generations and her commitment to creating interiors with a human centric approach to design."