We do not usually talk about demand before a panel ships. Solaluce is an exception.
Backlit onyx panels have been a fixture in hotel lobbies and restaurant feature walls for years. What specifiers keep asking for is something warmer, something that reads amber at low dimming without feeling heavy. Solaluce is that panel. The amber veining deepens under LED light. The cream base opens up. The surface stops reading as a stone-look panel and starts reading as something else entirely: warmth, held in place, built into the wall.
The first run came off the factory floor in Montréal last week. Warm amber-gold veining over a translucent cream base, the kind of surface that looks like fossilized light when the LEDs come on behind it. Before the panels were even staged for photography, two hospitality projects had already called them in. That does not happen by accident. It happens when a design lands exactly where the market is looking.
It works at a restaurant bar at 30% output. It works in a boutique hotel lobby at noon. In a private dining room where the lighting never gets above candlelit, it is the feature wall that earns its square footage. In a casino corridor where the panels run floor to ceiling, it holds the eye without exhausting it. Solaluce specifies equally well outside hospitality: law firm reception walls, high-end retail, residential feature walls, and any interior where the brief calls for warmth without ornamentation. The material does not fight the light. It accepts it.
That range is what separates a design that photographs well from a design that specifiers reach for again. We have seen both in 25 years of manufacturing backlit architectural panels in Montréal. Solaluce is the latter.
It joins the Lumi-Onyx 2026 collection alongside five other new designs: Imperiale, Luce Divina, Nottedoro, Pietrarosa, and Velaluce. All six were developed for interiors where the brief is almost always the same: a panel that performs under variable lighting conditions, holds its finish over time, and ships on a timeline that works with a construction schedule rather than against it.
Solaluce specifies equally well outside hospitality: law firm reception walls, high-end retail, residential feature walls, and any interior where the brief calls for warmth without ornamentation. The amber register is forgiving under a wide range of lighting conditions, from the controlled daylight of a corner office to the mixed sources of a retail floor. The material does not fight the light. It accepts it.
On lead times: Solaluce is made to order in our Montréal atelier. Every panel is produced to your project specification, not pulled from a warehouse. Lead time is 10 to 15 business days for orders of 10 panels or less. It is also available cut to order, which means if your feature wall calls for a non-standard dimension, we cut to your spec rather than asking you to field-cut on site. No minimum order quantity. Single panels ship.
The substrate choice matters for certain projects. Polycarbonate carries a Class A fire rating under ASTM E84, the requirement for elevator interiors, casino floors, and most commercial applications in North America. Both substrates are CUSMA/USMCA compliant, manufactured in Canada, and approximately half the weight of glass.
Standard format is 4’ × 8’. Translucent and opaque finishes both available. Ready to specify as a backlit onyx wall or a solid opaque surface. Two projects have already claimed their panels. A few more are in conversation. Everything ships from Montréal. Everything is made when you order it. Twenty-five years in, that is still how it works.
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