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development • magento • m1 → m2 • ui/ux redesign • brand book • germany

lampenbazar — 35 years of light, finally on a platform that shines

A Cologne lighting institution — showroom, workshop and webshop — moved from Magento 1 to Magento 2, with a fleet of custom modules rebuilt from the ground up and a complete UI/UX redesign with a new brand book.

client
Lampenbazar, Köln
industry
Designer lighting retail
stack
Magento 2
scope
Migration + full redesign
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// the client • vielfalt erleben

a lighting institution on a dimming platform

💡 who they are

köln's lighting specialists for 35+ years

Lampenbazar has made light its business for over 35 years: a showroom on Dürener Straße in Cologne, an in-house workshop for repairs and electrification, custom lampshade manufacturing (Sonderanfertigung), professional light planning — and a webshop carrying designer lighting from modern to Murano glass and Tiffany.

The kind of business where the catalog is deep, the products are configurable, and customers expect advice — not just a checkout button.

01 / challenge

magento 1, running on borrowed time

Years of custom Magento 1 modules powered everything from bulky-goods shipping to service flows — valuable business logic trapped on an unsupported platform.

  • a pile of custom m1 modules with no m2 equivalents
  • dated design underselling beautiful products
  • bulky-goods (sperrgut) shipping rules baked into legacy code
  • showroom-grade brand with no digital brand book
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of the client's lighting expertise
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custom modules rebuilt for m2
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redesigned — ui, ux & brand book
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lost during migration
// the solution • rewiring, not just rehosting

every custom module, rewired for magento 2

You can't lift-and-shift Magento 1 code into Magento 2 — the architecture is fundamentally different. Each custom module was analyzed, redesigned and rebuilt natively for M2: cleaner, faster, upgrade-safe.

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bulky-goods shipping (sperrgut)

Per-product oversized-freight rules and surcharges — the heart of shipping lamps safely across Germany.

m1 legacy⟶m2 native
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workshop & repair flows

The in-house Werkstatt — repairs, electrification, restorations — wired into the store as a proper service flow.

m1 legacy⟶m2 native
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custom lampshade orders

Sonderanfertigung: made-to-order lampshades with materials, dimensions and fittings as live product options.

m1 legacy⟶m2 native
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light planning service

Lichtplanung as a lead flow — room details in, a professional lighting concept out.

m1 legacy⟶m2 native
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parts & accessories logic

Suspensions, canopies, replacement glass, cord dimmers — cross-linked to the fixtures they fit.

m1 legacy⟶m2 native
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german checkout & tax

19% MwSt display rules, DE payment methods and legal pages exactly as German commerce law expects.

m1 legacy⟶m2 native

mobile page load — before vs after

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// representative field metrics; exact figures available on request during a call
// the redesign • products this beautiful deserve better pixels

new ui, new ux, new brand book

design system, not just a facelift

a brand book that scales from showroom to screen

We rebuilt the visual identity into a working digital brand book: color system, typography, photography guidelines and a Figma component library — then applied it across every template of the store.

  • ui/ux redesigned around product photography and light
  • figma design system with reusable components
  • clear customer journeys: buy, repair, plan, customize
  • one consistent brand from webshop to showroom materials
🔒 lampenbazar.com
lampenbazar.com storefront — Magento 2, built by Volkorn
live storefront • magento 2 • built by volkorn
the storefront

a deep catalog that finally feels light

Thousands of fixtures across dozens of categories — ceiling, pendant, wall, floor, table, outdoor, shades — organized so both an interior designer and a first-time buyer find their lamp in three clicks.

And the services that make Lampenbazar special — workshop, light planning, custom shades — are storefront citizens now, not footnotes.

// how it went • the bulbs light up as you scroll

switching the lights on, one phase at a time

phase 01 · audit

module archaeology

Every custom M1 module documented: what it does, which business rule it encodes, and its M2 future — rebuild, replace or retire.

phase 02 · design

brand book & ui/ux in figma

New identity system and a full storefront redesign — approved on real templates before a line of frontend code.

phase 03 · build

m2 platform & module rewiring

Magento 2 store built out; 20+ custom modules re-engineered natively for M2 — shipping, workshop, custom shades, light planning and more.

phase 04 · migration

data over, seo intact

Catalog, customers and order history migrated with SEO-safe URL mapping — decades of rankings preserved.

phase 05 · launch

lights on, zero downtime

Go-live in a quiet traffic window with live monitoring and hypercare. The showroom kept selling; the webshop just got better at it.

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