Red Dot Award
ELEKTRA has won the coveted Red Dot Award for its simple and slim niche lighting solution. The LD8177 LED system was recognized by the jury in the Product Design discipline for superior design.
Simple, but visually captivating illumination of niches can be a big challenge. ELEKTRA, a company from Enger in North Rhine–Westphalia specialising in LED lighting, has developed a solution that has now won the Red Dot Award for design. The slender, minimalist LD 8177 LED system is a bright and effective means of illuminating the rear walls of kitchens and living rooms.
“The prestigious Red Dot Award is a great honour for us,” says ELEKTRA’s Managing Director Boris Niessing. “It shows we’re on the right path with our lighting solutions, which emphasize attractive design.”
The special feature of the LD 8177 is that the customer can easily add additional elements such as shelves or holders to the system. Different versions create an ambience that radiates light either upwards, downwards or to the rear, combining the niche and the furniture into a single unit. “A strip of small, closely spaced LEDs provides homogeneous, indirect and glare-free lighting,” explains Henrik Bültmann, Head of Development and Design at ELEKTRA. “The design concept of the LD 8177 fits a 16 mm grid, which means it fits in visually with all standard furniture grids.” The new system can also be used as illumination in other rooms, such as hotel rooms or bedrooms, where it can be installed behind the bed.
About the award
The Red Dot Award for Product Design is given out at one of the world’s most important design competitions. Since 1955 it has honoured products with designs of particularly high quality. The independent Red Dot Jury evaluates entries on the basis of four quality principles: function, aesthetics, usability and responsibility. In 2025 the jury was made up of 43 experts from 21 countries and a variety of disciplines – among them designers, professors, journalists and consultants. Entries were submitted from more than 60 countries and were carefully scrutinized and discussed by the jury.
Further information on LD 8177 niche lighting is available here:
elektra.de/en/niche-lighting-ld8177/