The Untapped Market: Why India Needs a Dedicated Lighting Platform for Designers
1st August 2025, Jaipur: As India’s design economy accelerates—powered by urban luxury living, boutique hospitality, and a new generation of design-conscious homeowners—one essential category continues to lag in innovation and relevance: decorative lighting.
Despite its vital role in shaping spatial emotion, functionality, and narrative, lighting remains one of the most fragmented, under-curated segments in India’s interior design ecosystem. Amidst this gap, Lumeil, a Jaipur-based platform, has emerged as a definitive response: India’s first dedicated lighting destination, built exclusively for architects, interior designers, and the design-forward elite.
A Category Left Behind in a Booming Design Landscape
India’s interior design market is expected to grow at over 7% CAGR, with high-end residential and hospitality segments leading the charge. And yet, for all the innovation in finishes, layouts, and digital visualization, designers are still left navigating:
· Scattered vendor ecosystems
· Poor product transparency
· Non-standardized quality
· Lack of spec support
· Missed delivery timelines
“Designers today are not looking for SKUs. They are looking for clarity, control, and curatorial depth,” says Naman Jain, Founding Member of Lumeil. “We created Lumeil not as a vendor directory, but as an infrastructure—a lighting ecosystem that mirrors how modern studios think, source, and deliver.”
A Platform That Thinks Like a Studio
Lumeil is engineered around the way top-tier design studios operate. From material-specific filters and spec-integrated product pages to real-time concierge support and white-glove delivery, every function is optimized for reduced friction and elevated control.
A tightly curated catalog Finish palettes suited for Indian interiors Scalable from standalone homes to large hospitality Trusted delivery aligned to real project timelines
“On a recent villa project in Kasauli, the design team needed 10 matching pendants sourced, spec-checked, and delivered within 8 working days,” recalls Jain. “Our team handled shortlisting, matched proportions to ceiling height, and executed delivery ahead of time—without a single revision.”
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