Lighting Design Proposal · 41 Arvida · Confidential

For a lifetime the light has been pointed at him.
Here, he decides where it falls.

Studio Valle de Valle is reimagining the interiors of 41 Arvida. We were invited to design the light that lives inside them — for a client who has spent a career being seen, and a home built so he can choose, for once, when he isn't. This is how we'd read this house, and how we'd light it.

↓ Read the house
ScopeRenovated interiors
WithStudio Valle de Valle
LocationGables Estates · Coral Gables
StudioLima · Miami · Madrid
Contents 41 Arvida · A Lighting Proposal in Eleven Parts
01 — A Shared Language

A single role, done precisely.

Our role here is singular: to reveal what you've specified, never to compete with it. You shape how the house looks — we make sure the light agrees.

Your work speaks in plaster, iroko, microcement — surfaces that hold light instead of bouncing it. That's the grammar we light in too. No flood, no glare, no fixture competing with the architecture. The hardest light to engineer is the light you never notice.

Scope · Renovated interiors · with Studio Valle de Valle
02 — The Technology

You design the room. We make the light disappear into it.

The light you've imagined for this house is warm, quiet, and almost invisible — the kind that feels like it was always there. That's the hardest kind to engineer. It takes more control, not less, to make light this calm. This is the part of the house that runs underneath everything you've drawn.

01 · The light

A light that dims like a candle.

Most LEDs hold the same cold tone all the way down. Ours warms as it lowers — clean white to the amber of a flame, the way daylight fades at dusk. On your materials, that warmth is everything.

02 · The system

A house that keeps time with the sun.

The light shifts on its own — cool in the morning, golden by night, tracking the sun. No switches to read, no cold glow at midnight. Artificial light that behaves like the window beside it.

03 · The control

One gesture, the whole room answers.

One control layer holds every fixture in agreement. The scenes are composed in advance — so the room arrives complete at a single touch. Even cinema, graded with zero glare, is a scene the house already holds.

The instrument
Morning
Cool and awake — the house wakes with you.
⇆ Drag to move the day
3000K · clean white 1800K · candlelight
The day
Morning Day Evening Cinema Night
Temperature 3000K Ketra warm-dim
Intensity 100% follows the sun
Scene Morning Lutron HomeWorks
Engineered on Lutron HomeWorks & Ketra — the reference standard for light that moves with the day.
03 — The Company We Keep

We've done
this before

We light homes for people the world recognizes and rarely gets to see inside. The discretion is the point — we speak this language fluently, and we keep it to ourselves. The stakes here are familiar to us, and so is working beside a studio that holds them to your standard.
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04 — Selected Work

A portfolio,
by typology

The same studio that lights an art collector's home lights a tower, a beach house, a flagship. Click any project to open its story.
01
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Residential · Private Collection

A Private Art Collector's Residence

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02
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Residential · Wecselman Design

A Palm Beach Residence

Palm Beach
03
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Residential · RAMSA

Pezet 3

Lima
04
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Residential · MORPH Studio

La Moraleja Residence

Madrid
05
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Commercial · Wellness

Viva Gym Building

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06
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Multifamily · RAMSA

Blas Cerdeña

Lima
07
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Residential · Beachfront

Poseidón Beach House

Lima
08
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Residential · Adriana Hoyos

Fisher Island Apartment

Miami
09
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Residential · Oppenheim Architecture

A Private Residence

Golden Beach
10
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Residential · Adriana Hoyos

Four Seasons Penthouse

Brickell · Miami
11
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Residential · RAMSA

Pezet 1

Lima
12
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Residential · RAMSA

Pezet 2

Lima
13
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Residential · Private

A Private Villa

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05 — Our Scope of Work

Three stages, one commitment: our scope of work.

We design the light, we protect it through construction, and we stay until it's right — in coordination with Studio Valle de Valle.
Stage 1

Lighting Design

Delivery · 15 business days
01

Site Assessment & Briefing

  • Site assessment and gathering of initial information and project requirements
02

Lighting Concept & Strategy

  • General lighting concept with a complete moodboard per each space
03

Fixture Selection & Placement

  • Lighting layouts with fixtures placement according to the concept
  • Legend with fixture symbols & nomenclature
  • Specbook for each selected fixture
04

Lighting Control System

  • Switching plan
  • Keypad distribution proposal layout
  • Advanced control systems evaluated to integrate the most appropriate solution, such as Ketra by Lutron
05

Photometric Calculations & Rendered Simulation

  • Photometric calculations for 5 principal spaces (Dialux with real photometry)
06

Coordination with Other Disciplines

  • Coordination with architecture, interior design and other technical trades
Stage 2

Lighting Design Management

  • Coordination meetings with architects and interior designers — (10) meetings
  • Change management — (10) drawing modifications & updates
  • Support during construction
Stage 3

On-Site Management

Delivery · per construction schedule
  • Site visits at key milestones — (3) visits
  • Supervision reports
  • Resolution of technical queries
  • Light testing to verify correct installation
06 — What you receive

Every drawing, one final dossier.

Not a set of fragments handed over stage by stage — one complete, closeout dossier you can hold us to.

Final Dossier · Closeout Deliverables

Delivery · 15 business days
07 — The Renovated Areas

Room by room,
a point of view

Per Studio Valle de Valle's drawings. Lighting scope covers the renovated areas only — but we don't read them as a list. Each room already has an intention.
First Floor · 8 rooms Second Floor · 4 rooms
First FloorEntry Stair · Entry Bar · Library · Great Room · Breakfast Room · Dining Room · Office · Powder Room
Second FloorPrimary Bedroom · Primary Bathroom · Home Studio & Booth
Second Floor · the heart

Screening Room

Graded for cinema, zero glare, scene-controlled.

08 — The Studio
For 33 years, Karen Mannheim Lighting Studio has done one thing: make light give a space its meaning.

What began as one person knocking on doors in Lima is now a practice of more than 80 people across three continents, with offices in Lima, Miami and Madrid. For a Coral Gables home, our Miami studio is already next door — not flying in, but here.

We've delivered more than 2,500 projects across six countries, working alongside firms like RAMSA, Oppenheim and Adriana Hoyos. But the number that matters most isn't on this list: it's that after three decades and that much scale, the studio still designs each project as if it were the only one. The throughline never changed — light, here, is never decoration. It's the soul of the architecture.

33+
Years of practice
2,500+
Projects delivered
80+
People in the studio
6
Countries · 3 offices
Who we are

Karen Mannheim.

Founder & Creative Director

“I don't design light to be noticed. I design it so the room, the material, the person living there all feel inevitable. The best light in a home is the one no one ever thinks about. They just never want to leave.”

Karen has spent more than three decades building one of the few lighting practices that works at the level of the world's most demanding architecture firms — and keeps the soul of a studio. She leads the design on every project the studio takes, and she'd lead this one. When you work with Karen Mannheim Lighting Studio, you're not handed to a team. You start with her.

09 — Trusted By

The firms who trust KMLS

RAMSA
Robert A.M. Stern Architects
MORPH Arquitectura
World's Top 100 Firms
Oppenheim
Architecture
Adriana Hoyos
Design Studio
Wecselman
Design · Florida
Kobi Karp
Architecture & Interiors
Fernanda Márquez
São Paulo · Lisboa · Vancouver · London
Legeard Studio
New York
2id Interiors
Miami
Llosa Cortegana
Architects
10 — Terms & Conditions

The terms we work by.

Payment terms
70% upon proposal approval and 30% before the delivery of final deliverables.
Onboarding requirements
The client must provide architectural base files in AutoCAD format to initiate services.
Design revisions & scope modifications
Modifications to architectural and interior design layouts will only be accommodated prior to the commencement of the Final Dossier phase. Any changes requested thereafter will incur additional fees.
Project closeout
All project phases are bound by predefined commencement and completion dates. The issuance of the Final Dossier marks the formal conclusion of the contracted scope of work. Any additional services or design revisions requested subsequent to this milestone will require a separate project proposal and fee estimate.
Proposal validity
This proposal remains valid for 30 business days from the date of issuance.
11 — The Proposal

Investment

Integral Lighting Design
Includes everything in each stage + final dossier.
$ 40,000 USD

Payment terms

  • 70% Upon proposal approval
  • 30% Before delivery of final deliverables
The Beginning of a Conversation

Every room he's ever been in had an audience.
This one won't.

This house is going to be singular — and the light inside it should be held to the same standard as everything else you're designing. We'd be honored to build that part alongside you. Let's start with a conversation: show us where the house is headed, and we'll show you how we'd light it.

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