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Flos

For fifty years Flos has created objects of light and ignites generations of dreams, it was born in 1962 in Merano by the will of Dino Gavina, genius of Italian design and great discoverer of talents.
For Flos, light is the material with which to express new ideas and illuminate unexplored emotions.
The company philosophy can be summarized in these passages: “We write the future, reading our past and expressing today, in a continuity of concrete challenges and bold choices that have shaped our image and identity. Our history has taught us to keep the fire of provocation alive with the search for new poetics of functionality ”
Following instinct has always allowed Flos to create products that become icons, invent types and set new archetypes.
The design paths are many: to identify with the masters of design, such as the Castiglioni or Gino Sarfatti brothers, who sign some of the most famous design lamps in the world such as Arco, Taccia, Toio …, but also to continuously discover new talents. In fact, all the most interesting personalities in the world of design collaborate or have collaborated with Flos: from Philippe Starck to Marcel Wanders, from Jasper Morrison to the Bouroullec brothers, from Michael Anastasiades to Nendo to name just a few. The strengths of the brand, which always place it at the forefront, are manifold, among them, a rare element for a contemporary design company: having great technical and technological authority and being part of mass culture.
Experimentation has allowed Flos to adopt revolutionary materials, such as in the past the cocoon, with which it developed the first lamps of the Castiglioni brothers, and more advanced technological solutions, represented today by OLED and sustainable materials.
Precisely for these reasons, inventing new languages ??around light means for the company to indicate new aesthetics and freedom of life, never forgetting, in the lamps of yesterday and today, to take seriously game and irony.
On the fine line that divides and unites art from design, artisanal production from industrial production, the limited series from the large-scale one, the individual’s thought from the collective one: This is where Flos is and it is there that we can find it. The Flos catalog is divided into different sectors to satisfy all the needs regarding light: a decorative part, including home lamps designed by the most famous designers, a technical part, for high-definition lighting systems for public spaces, and finally a part dedicated outside to illuminate, according to the same aesthetic and technical characteristics, terraces, gardens, swimming pools, streets, squares …

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Vitra

Vitra

Vitra is a Swiss company dedicated to improving the quality of homes, offices and public spaces through the power of design, founded in Weil am Rhein in 1950 by Willi Fehlbaum, owner of a furniture store in nearby Basel. Its products are developed in an impeccable, intensive design process, which brings together engineering excellence with the creative genius of internationally renowned designers. The goal, since the early 1950s, is to create functional and stimulating interiors, furniture and accessories through some guiding principles such as longevity of materials, impeccable construction, high quality and the importance of aesthetics, as demonstrated from the great classics, many still in production since 1950.

The great American design classics were in fact the starting point of the Vitra catalog, thanks to the agreement already in 1946 with the American Herman Miller for the purchase of the rights to produce the vast collection of Charles and Ray Eames in Europe. Willi Fehlbaum was struck by the plans of the spouses Eames during a trip to America and wanted at all costs to produce them and propose them to the European market. Masterpieces such as the Eames Chair, the Aluminum Group, the Upholstered Lounge Chair, the Elephant Stool, the Fiberglass chairs … therefore began to be known and appreciated also in Europe thanks to Vitra. Subsequently to this production were added the works of other historical masters of international design such as George Nelson, Verner Panton, Jean Prouvé and to follow, in more recent years, the works of contemporary designers and architects such as Antonio Citterio, the Bouroullec brothers, Mario Bellini, Ron Aram, Jasper Morrison, Alberto Meda, Philippe Starck …

After a terrible fire, which devastated the entire factory in 1981, the English architect Nicholas Grimshaw was called to design the new factory, ready in just 6 months, which was joined in 1986 by another building by the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, starting what will become the future Vitra Campus, or the most important grouping in Europe and probably in the world of contemporary architecture in a limited space. Among the many buildings we can mention the Vitra Design Museum by Frank O. Gehry from 1989, the Tadao Conference pavilion from 1993, the Zaha Hadid Fire Station from 1993, the installation in 2003 of a petrol designed in 1953 by Jean Prouvé until the most recent VitraHaus by the architects of Basel Herzog & de Meuron in 2010, the Diogene structure of Renzo Piano in 2013 or the factory of the Japanese studio SAANA in 2013. The Vitra Campus has become in a few years destination much frequented by design enthusiasts and not only, thanks to the guided visits to the various factories, the numerous exhibitions and displays on design in its museum and to many initiatives related to the world of design and art.

Currently the Vitra catalog is divided into 2 parts. one dedicated to the home, the Home Collection, and one dedicated to contract and office, with a lot of sensitivity towards smart working. In these 2 parts the proposals of the Masters of design such as the Eames, Jean Prouvé, Verner Panton are always balanced … and the contemporary projects of designers such as the Bouroullec brothers, Hella Jongerius, Konstanto Grcic, Jasper Morrison and many others.

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