The Lumière Family

Late 19th-Mid-20th Century | Light and Shadow from the Same Source, Acoustics at its Beginning

The Lumière brand was founded by Augustin Lumière, a descendant of a collateral branch of the Lumière family. Sharing the same roots as the main branch that pioneered cinematography, the brand inherited the family’s top-tier expertise in lighting and acoustics from its inception. While the main branch revolutionized the history of film with its cinematic cameras, the collateral branch focused on deep research and development in acoustics, specializing in the handcrafted production of wooden acoustic equipment. Through generations of exquisite craftsmanship, they became a renowned acoustic workshop in France. In 1926, with the official establishment of the Lumière Academy, the brand, leveraging its shared family heritage, simultaneously began early technical collaborations with the academy, providing equipment and technical support for film sound research and acoustic experiments. This laid the foundation for the brand’s core craftsmanship and acoustic research genes, making it a significant pioneer in early French acoustics.

1950s-60s | The New Wave: The Rise of French Acoustics

The French New Wave art movement swept across France, its innovative spirit permeating design, audiovisual media, and lifestyle. Lumière Acoustics seized this opportunity, deeply integrating French minimalist aesthetics with cutting-edge acoustic technology. Precisely capturing the New Wave cinematic demands for natural sound and spatial acoustics, they developed audio products specifically tailored for artistic creation and high-end private listening. Beyond the market, leveraging their close family ties, they also provided customized acoustic equipment and sound field tuning services for family cinemas, specifically for screening rooms and classic film production.

1970s-Early 21st Century: Shifting Times, Preserved Craftsmanship

From the 1970s onwards, the brand’s core acoustics business experienced a period of stagnation due to multiple factors, including adjustments in the European industrial landscape, changes in acoustic materials policy, and the gradual decline of the physical music market. Despite the overall slowdown in market-driven production, professional collaborations with academies and in-house cinemas continued, providing exclusive technical support and customized acoustic solutions for film education, film screenings, and spatial acoustics research. Through non-commercial in-house services, the century-old acoustic craftsmanship and technological heritage were fully preserved and passed down.

2010s-2022 | Classic Discovery, Capital Empowerment

Founded in 2018, BAOMA SARL in France focuses on investing in high-end industries and operating accessible luxury lifestyle brands in France, specializing in the discovery, revitalization, and global expansion of classic, high-quality brands. With the rise of the global high-end lifestyle market, BAOMA SARL targeted the core segment of high-end acoustics, recognizing Lumière’s century-old craftsmanship, classic French acoustic design, and high-end, rare brand image, which highly aligned with the group’s high-end accessible luxury strategy. After years of in-depth negotiations, tracing the origins of craftsmanship, and conducting technical investigations, BAOMA SARL completed the full acquisition of the Lumière brand in 2022, officially incorporating it into the group’s high-end lifestyle product matrix, making it a core vehicle for its global high-end acoustics strategy.

2022–2025 | Revitalized, A Century of New Life

Following its acquisition, BAOMA SARL injected global capital, a modern acoustic R&D system, and omnichannel operational resources into Lumière, fully launching a brand strategy revitalization and global relaunch. Simultaneously, BAOMA SARL entered into a deep strategic partnership with Qube, a global digital cinema technology giant in Italy, to jointly develop a global digital cinema ecosystem. Leveraging cinema-grade technology and global channel resources, they will jointly promote the globalization and market penetration of the Lumière acoustics brand.