Flos

So at the beginning of the 60s a certain Mr Gavina, with the small producer of Merano Eisenkeil, gets in the lead - after having created many new furniture (with the brothers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Afra and Tobia Scarpa and other masters of design) - that it is also time to create new lamps. So the Castiglioni and the Scarpa, with the cocoon technique, conceived in the USA and experimented by Eisenkeil, begin to make lamps such as the Taraxacum or the Fantasma. Many other lamps, beautiful and surprising, follow these first ones: so already from its prehistory Flos (Fiore, in Latin, name that Pier Giacomo Castiglioni chooses for her) finds himself reinventing the idea of artificial lighting.Sergio Gandini, who began to manage Flos in 1963, there is no contradiction between the business project and creative imagination: combined they will lead his company to success. The industrial infrastructure of Brescia is perfect for giving designers maximum freedom of action, be it the Jucker lamp by Tobia Scarpa - inspired by the Bauhaus - or the revolutionary Arco dei Castiglioni.