FLOS Mini Glo-Ball Wall & Ceiling Light by Jasper Morrison

About the Item

Part of the popular Glo Ball Series, the Mini Glo-Ball C/W was created by artist Jasper Morrison to invoke the radiant calm of a full moon. This unique wall or ceiling fixture provides diffused light. Its diffuser consists of an externally acid-etched, hand-blown, flashed opaline glass and a white, injection-molded PPS threaded ring nut. There is an injection-molded PPS white wall fitting. Please note, the base of the fixture will not cover a standard US junction box, a reduction ring is needed and included. Inspiration behind the design: Inspired by the soft and serene glow of a full moon in a clear sky, Jasper Morrison created the Glo Ball series to illuminate the otherworldly magic of the night. This item is compatible only in the United States and Canada. For customers located outside of these regions, please inquire for availability in your area.

Creator:

Jasper Morrison (Designer),Flos (Manufacturer)

Dimensions:

Height: 3.4 in (8.64 cm)Diameter: 4.4 in (11.18 cm)

Style:

Modern (In the Style Of)

Materials and Techniques:

Glass

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

21st Century

Date of Manufacture:

Contemporary

Production Type:

New & Custom(Current Production)

Estimated Production Time:

Available Now

Condition:

Seller Location:

Brooklyn, NY

Reference Number:

Seller: FU4190091stDibs: LU3785111242413

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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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