About the Designer
FLORIN PANLILIO
Founder of FUNCTIONAL LIGHTING ORIGINS
WBE Certified, Associate IALD, IES, Women in Lighting + Design (WILD)
Florin completed a degree in Interior Design. She gravitated towards lighting design due to her inherent interest in Science. Her ability to visualize a space in 3D helped shape the kind of Lighting Designer that she is now. With her experience working on numerous international projects, she was able to transform creative ideas into well-developed realities. Her exposure while working for lighting design firms in New York and San Francisco has allowed her to work on a diverse selection of commercial & residential Projects. Having worked as the only Lighting Designer for a Home Automation company in Atlanta introduced her to a new market. She now plans to build her roots in Atlanta where she is currently residing. Her desire to continuously learn and work on projects that interest her led her to open up her Lighting Design practice. She is ready to take on new challenges, while also learning from her collaborators along the way.
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."