Flos Furniture
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 recognisable 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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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Marble, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Flos Furniture
Aluminium
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Marble, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Aluminium
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Marble, Aluminium, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Marble, Aluminium, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Marble, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Flos Furniture
Aluminium
1960s Italian Vintage Flos Furniture
Resin
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Flos Furniture
Metal, Aluminium
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Flos Furniture
Aluminium
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Flos Furniture
Steel
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Flos Furniture
Plastic
Early 2000s Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Carrara Marble, Aluminium, Stainless Steel
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Flos Furniture
Metal, Chrome
1960s Italian Space Age Vintage Flos Furniture
Aluminium, Brass
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Flos Furniture
Pewter
1960s Italian Organic Modern Vintage Flos Furniture
Metal
1960s Italian Space Age Vintage Flos Furniture
Metal, Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Brass
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Flos Furniture
Brass, Steel
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Flos Furniture
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Flos Furniture
Aluminium
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Flos Furniture
Steel, Aluminium
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Flos Furniture
Brass, Nickel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Flos Furniture
Metal, Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Flos Furniture
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Chrome
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Flos Furniture
Brass, Steel
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Flos Furniture
Steel
1980s Italian Vintage Flos Furniture
Metal
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Flos Furniture
Metal
1960s Italian Vintage Flos Furniture
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Flos Furniture
Aluminium
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Flos Furniture
Metallic Thread
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Flos Furniture
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Flos Furniture
Brass, Nickel
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Flos Furniture
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Flos Furniture
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Flos Furniture
Metal, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Aluminium
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Aluminium
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Stone, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Aluminium
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Flos Furniture
Aluminium
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Aluminium
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flos Furniture
Aluminium