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Parentesi Suspension Light by Achille Castiglioni and Pio Manzu for Flos

About the Item

Parentesi Suspension Light by Achille Castiglioni and Pio Manzù. Originally designed in Italy in 1971. The iconic Parentesi was named for the parenthesis symbol—a visual reference to the nickel-plated shaped tube that lives on a floor-to-ceiling steel cable. The steel cable can reach up to 157", and the tube allows the lamp head to move vertically along the cable to achieve a customized height. The head fixture is injection-molded black elastomer, equipped with a switch. The Parentesi provides direct lighting and is available in black, nickel, or red. Takes one 120W BR-40 Medium Reflector Flood Incandescent which is not Included. This light is UL certified.

Creator:

Flos (Manufacturer),Achille Castiglioni (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 157 in (398.78 cm)Diameter: 4.3 in (10.93 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Metal,Steel

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

2010-

Date of Manufacture:

2018

Production Type:

New & Custom(Current Production)

Estimated Production Time:

5-6 weeks

Condition:

120W BR-40 Medium Reflector Incandescent bulb. Parentesi is dimmable.

Seller Location:

Los Angeles, CA

Reference Number:

Seller: FL11581stDibs: LU79472868072

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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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