Pipe Lighting GmbH

Pipe Lighting GmbH is a Hamburg lighting company founded in 2021 by Eduard Bochanov and Evgenii Vetlugin, both from professional film lighting. Their starting point was the weight, bulk and set-up time of conventional fixtures: a soft source that once needed a truck and a crew now travels in a bag.

The system is inflatable. Air gives the shape and the diffusion, so the PIPE 2, 4, 6 and 8 tubes deliver a bicolour 2,650-6,600 K light without softboxes or diffusers; the Color Pipes line adds RGBWW for set, studio and architectural work, while helium-filled units can be suspended above a scene. Production is split between Hamburg, a rental office in Berlin and a plant in Kutaisi, Georgia. In 2024 the system was recognised at the LIT Lighting Design Awards in the product design category.