Nendo, the Bouroullecs and Patricia Urquiola Launch New Lamps with Flos
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As part of Flos’ extensive 50th anniversary collection, lightingsuspended from belts and lamps were launched at this year’s Salone del Mobile,reports dezeen.The lighting brand included a number of designers such as MichaelAnastassiades, Ronan and Erwan BoNendo, the Bouroullecs and Patricia Urquiola Launch New Lamps with Flos
As part of Flos’ extensive 50th anniversary collection, lightingsuspended from belts and lamps were launched at this year’s Salone del Mobile,reports dezeen.The lighting brand included a number of designers such as MichaelAnastassiades, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Antonio Citterio, Formafantasma,Piero Lissoni, Nendo, Philippe Starck, and Patricia Urquiola for the 2019collections. Pieces shown by the brand also included two reissues – the Chiaralamp by Mario Bellini from the 1960s, and a re-release of the first edition ofthe brand’s Bulbo lamp – a 1957 design by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni. In the latest Flos collections, exhibited as part of Design Holdingfor the first time at their mammoth Salone del Mobile stand, the new furnitureand lighting group showcased its brands in three distinctive areas of anall-white, 4,000-square-meter stand designed by Calvi Brambilla.Formafantasma’s WireLine is made of an LED light source within aribbed glass extrusion and supported by long flat pink rubber cable designed tolook like belts. “The lamp plays on the contrast between the industrial feeling ofthe rubber and the sophistication of glass,” explained Formafantasma foundersAndrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin. Mushroom-esque light fixtures arecombined with tabletops in Haeru – a modular lighting system by Tokyo designstudio Nendo. Haeru (meaning to grow in Japanese) consists of eight parts intotal: three types of tables, two types of light fixtures, and three supportinglegs that can be used to create custom configurations. “The basic structure ofthe object is made of a three-legged table with a built-in battery. Two of thelegs are cut shorter, thus allowing the user to change and add light fixturesand tabletops depending on their preference,” explained Nendo. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have also created Belt, a suspendedlighting system with an unusual suspension element. The designers have createda system that connects leather-wrapped linear LED lighting modules with softand flexible leather belts secured by buckles. “All the elements are uniformlymade of leather belts. Some of them carry the weight, some of them carryelectricity, then of course some of them carry the light,” the designersexplained. Patricia Urquiola has created an outdoor lamp called Caule and a wall lamp called Flauta, which is available in different heights and configurations and inspired by the structure of a flower. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more