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Taraxacum S1 Pendant Light by Achille Castiglioni for Flos

About the Item

Taraxacum S1 hanging light designed by Achille Castiglioni for Flos, 1988. Taraxacum S1 is known as a variation of the famous Taraxacum 1 which Castiglioni designed for Flos already in 1960 and which we have also in stock. The Taraxacum lights share the principle of exposing the bulbs as key elements of the design. The structure of the Taraxacum is a dodecahedron made of polished aluminum serves as a charming eye-catcher in every environment. The diameter of the lamp without the bulbs is 56 cm. The diameter of the canopy is 18 cm. The wire is 137cm long and it can be shortened if needed. The lamp is sold without the bulbs but they they can be ordered on request.

Creator:

Flos (Manufacturer),Achille Castiglioni (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 22.05 in (56 cm)Diameter: 22.05 in (56 cm)

Power Source:

Hardwired

Voltage:

220-240v

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Aluminum,Chrome

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1980-1989

Date of Manufacture:

1988

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Renens, CH

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU5599233230312

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Imaginative lighting is a longtime hallmark of modern Italian design. Following in the footsteps of innovative companies such as Artemide and Arteluce, the company FLOS brought a fresh aesthetic philosophy to the Italian lighting field in the 1960s, one that would produce several of the iconic floor lamp, table lamp and pendant light designs of the era.

FLOS — Latin for “flower” — was founded in the northern town of Merano in 1962 by Cesare Cassina (of the famed Cassina furniture-making family) and Dino Gavina, a highly cultured businessman who believed that artistic ideas espoused in postwar Italy could inform commercial design. The two enlisted brothers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni as their first designers.

Even before FLOS was formally incorporated, the Castiglionis gave the firm one of its enduring successes with the Taraxacum pendant and associated designs made by spraying an elastic polymer on a metal armature. (George Nelson had pioneered the technique in the United States in the early 1950s.) For other designs, the brothers found inspiration in everyday objects. Suggestive of streetlights, their Arco floor lamp, with its chrome boom and ball-shaped shade sweeping out from a marble block base, has become a staple of modernist decors. Designing for FLOS since 1966, Tobia Scarpa has also been inspired by the commonplace. His folded-metal Foglio sconces resemble a shirt cuff; his carved marble Biagio table lamp looks like a jai alai basket.

In 1973, FLOS purchased Arteluce, the company founded in 1939 by Gino Sarfatti, and it continues to produce his designs. In recent decades, FLOS has contracted work from several noted designers, including Marcel Wanders and Jasper Morrison. As instantly recognizable as they are, many FLOS designs remain accessible. While FLOS lighting is the essence of modernity, its sleek, subtle designs can be used to strike a sculptural note in even traditional spaces.

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