Flos: A Bright Idea

At the origin of Flos there is a bright thought: the idea of creating objects suitable for changing the way of living, not only of Italians, from a light bulb.

So at the beginning of the 1960s, a certain Mr. Gavina, with the small Merano manufacturer Eisenkeil, got it into his head – after having created many new pieces of furniture (with the brothers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Afra and Tobia Scarpa and other masters of design) – that the time had come to create new lamps too.

Thus the Castiglionis and the Scarpas, with the cocoon technique, conceived in the USA and experimented by Eisenkeil, began to create lamps such as the Taraxacum or the Fantasma. These first lamps were followed by many others, beautiful and surprising: so already in its prehistory, Flos (Fiore, in Latin, the name chosen for it by Pier Giacomo Castiglioni) found itself reinventing the idea of artificial lighting.

Visit our showrooms in Parma and Reggio Emilia (Barco di Bibbiano) to learn more about Flos products.