Philips Hue has launched a new line of architecturally styled smart lighting at IFA 2026 in Berlin, including a 360-degree colour-changing rope light called the Liane and three new cylindrical Signe fixtures.
Hue has also added three fixtures to its Signe range: the Signe Pendant, Signe Pendulum and Signe Pole.
The Signe Pendulum and Signe Pole will go on sale in October, starting at $320.
The company also introduced three additions to its Festavia indoor/outdoor range: the Festavia Net, Festavia Curtain and Festavia Icicle.
These are available now, priced at $250 each, and can be synchronised with each other through preset scenes in the Philips Hue app.
Philips Hue has launched a new line of architecturally styled smart lighting at IFA 2026 in Berlin, including a 360-degree colour-changing rope light called the Liane and three new cylindrical Signe fixtures.
The Liane uses Hue's OmniGlow technology to emit diffuse light around its full circumference with no visible LEDs, and can be controlled for brightness and colour through the Philips Hue app. It is sold in 3-metre and 5-metre lengths, can be cut at 5-inch intervals but cannot be joined together to extend its length, and is for indoor use only.
Hue displayed the Liane in several installations, including one wrapped around a branch hung from the ceiling to form a chandelier with a gradient effect running from warm to cool white, and another using around 16 strands hung from the ceiling to resemble a curtain of light. Rope lights of this kind are commonly used in interior design as an architectural feature, though they have typically been available only in white light.
The Liane is available now in North America, priced from $399.99 for the 3-metre version and $549.99 for the 5-metre version.
Hue has also added three fixtures to its Signe range: the Signe Pendant, Signe Pendulum and Signe Pole. All three have a slim black housing with a strip of coloured lighting on one side. The Pendant is suspended from the ceiling by two cables and can be rotated to face downward, sideways or upward; the Pendulum hangs from a single cable and can be slid up or down to set its height; the Pole is designed to lean against a wall.
The Signe Pendulum and Signe Pole will go on sale in October, starting at $320. Philips Hue has not announced pricing or availability for the Signe Pendant.
The company also introduced three additions to its Festavia indoor/outdoor range: the Festavia Net, Festavia Curtain and Festavia Icicle. These are available now, priced at $250 each, and can be synchronised with each other through preset scenes in the Philips Hue app.
Separately, Hue announced a chatbot-based feature for the Hue app called Custom AI Behaviors, which lets users describe an automation in natural language for the assistant to create, similar to the Siri AI Shortcuts tool due in iOS 27. A Philips Hue representative said the feature could handle automations such as turning on backyard lights only when ambient light falls below a set level, or dimming living room lights when a television switches on. Users who want to change an automation must ask the AI assistant to revise it rather than editing the underlying rule directly. The representative said Hue had kept such automations out of its standard menu-based system not because its hardware could not support them but to avoid making the app too complicated for customers.
Custom AI Behaviors will arrive as a free update to the Philips Hue Bridge Pro in October.
