LUXXU

LUXXU: The Porto Brand That Started With One Chandelier and Built a World Around It

LUXXU launched in 2014 as a lighting company with a single, clear fixation: chandeliers built from gold-plated brass and hand-cut crystal, drawing on the architectural grammar of Art Deco rather than borrowing from contemporary minimalism. The timing was not accidental. The mid-2010s luxury interiors market had drifted so far into restraint that a brand willing to go in the opposite direction — monumental scale, layered crystal, brass in abundance — found an immediate audience among designers working on five-star hotels, private villas, and penthouse schemes where statement pieces were not just acceptable but required.

The Empire collection, inspired by the vertical authority of the Empire State Building, became the piece that established the brand internationally. The chandelier reads as a stacked architectural form — tiered rings of gold-plated brass set with crystal glass, scaling from domestic suspension lamps up to the Empire XL, a 4-metre-high installation weighing 600 kg that ships in a dedicated transport crate and requires white-glove installation. Its presence in hotel lobbies and entrance halls from Moscow to Kuala Lumpur confirmed that LUXXU had identified something the market genuinely wanted.

From Lighting to a Complete Interior Language

Within a few years of founding, LUXXU expanded into furniture — not as a diversification exercise, but because the brand had been specifying its lighting into interiors it could not fully control. The furniture collection was built to close that gap: tables, seating, storage, beds, mirrors, and outdoor pieces that share the same material vocabulary as the lighting. Nero Marquina marble, polished and aged brass, smoked glass, botanical silk, premium leather. The Darian dining table — a brass vertical-panel base with a marble top — sits in the same tonal register as the Empire chandelier above it. The Charla seating family, available as a dining chair, bar stool, counter stool, and lounge chair, covers the full range of hospitality and residential seating needs within a single design language.

The Waterfall collection took a different reference — the geometry of falling water translated into vertical tubes of ribbed crystal glass suspended from gold-plated brass frames. It runs across pendants, wall lamps, table lamps, and a sputnik plafond, and has been specified in bathrooms, dining rooms, and hotel corridors where the Empire family's scale would be too heavy.

What the Range Covers Today

• Lighting — chandeliers, pendants, wall lamps, floor lamps, and table lamps across Empire, Waterfall, Babel, Guggenheim, Gala, McQueen, Pharo, Liberty, and Draycott collections
• Furniture — dining tables, centre tables, consoles, sideboards, desks, and bar units in marble, brass, smoked glass, and lacquered finishes
• Upholstery — sofas, armchairs, dining and bar chairs, ottomans, and beds in velvet, leather, and bouclé with brass frame detailing
• Outdoor — the Mysa outdoor collection brings the same material quality to terraces and garden settings
• Rugs & accessories — handcrafted floor pieces and decorative objects designed to complete a LUXXU scheme from floor to ceiling

All pieces are handcrafted to order in Portugal, with customisation available across finish, fabric, material, and dimension. The full LUXXU collection is available through SayRug — the brand's authorised UK retailer — with specialist guidance for both residential clients and contract projects.