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Flos lampade: artistiche innovative lampade creative

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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Moooi: mobili, interni e illuminazione moderni olandesi

Moooi

For 20 years now, Moooi has inspired and seduced the world of design with sparkling, innovative, ironic and courageous projects.
The Dutch company was founded in 2001 by Marcel Wanders and Casper Vissers initially to propose the projects of Marcel Wanders himself, who in the 90s made himself known to the famous Dutch collective of designers Droog Design mainly thanks to his knitted chair, Knotted Chair, later edited by Cappellini; Wanders’ designs are often too original for design companies, so this publishing house is founded in order to maintain its independence and creativity intact: Moooi which means “beautiful” in Dutch.
Marcel Wanders’ capricious, unique and provocative style is fully expressed in the Moooi collection. In addition to the creations designed by Marcel himself, Moooi also edits other well-known designers such as Bertjan Pot, Jasper Morrison. Ross Lovegrove, Studio Job… enriching the catalog every year with always surprising pieces.
The company does not hesitate to leave the usual and aesthetic paths of design by editing unusual and courageous creations such as the surprising spider-shaped chandelier, composed of a multitude of technical desk lamps and called Dear Ingo in tribute to the Master of light Ingo Maurer , created by Ron Gilad in 2003 or even the “charred” Smoke wooden armchair from 2002 by Maarten Bass, who later became one of the most acclaimed Dutch designers.
In this way, the Moooi collection easily combines a suspension in pressed white paper by the creative couple Studio Job and a life-size black horse wearing a lamp on its head, a project signed by the Swedish studio Front Design and part of a particularly iconic collection completed from a rabbit_lampada and a pig-table.
Many designers are now called to collaborate with the company, always under the artistic direction of Marcel Wanders, now sought after by all the most important international design companies, from Flos to Baccarat, from Cappellini to Alessi; recent collaborations include those with Jaime Hayon, Nika Zuoanc, Joost van Bleiswijk.
Moooi’s style has not changed since the beginning and has remained exclusive, bold, playful … based on the belief that design is a matter of love, irony and joy. They are timeless objects, which possess the uniqueness and character of antiques combined with the freshness of modern times. This merger leads the brand to focus more and more on the production of iconic and spectacular objects.
With this unique and iconic mix of lighting, furniture and accessories, the company creates interior spaces decorated with a variety of inspiration of models and colors to embrace any type of space, domestic and public, and makes people of different ages, cultures fall in love and personality.
This vision of unexpected home always highlights new ideas with a clever touch of magic. Behind the apparent irony and playfulness there are always intelligent projects, the result of continuous reflections on the way of living and living and its continuous changes.

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Serge Mouille

Serge Mouille

Known worldwide for his work as lighting designer, Serge Mouille (1922-1988), after graduating in silver-related decorative arts at the School of Applied Arts in Paris, practices in the study of the sculptor Gilbert La Croix and, after graduating in 1941, opened his own studio.

In 1945 Mouille himself became a teacher at the School of Applied Arts and opened a new studio specialized in metalworking: his orders were mostly handrails for stairs, chandeliers and ornaments for the walls. In 1953 Jacques Adnet hires him to design lighting fixtures, an art to which he will dedicate the rest of his life. During the 1950s Serge Mouille designs large wall, ceiling and floor lamps, with different arms and curved shapes, which morphologically resemble a spider. Some of his best known designs of the period are his “Oeil” lamp from 1953, “Flammes” from 1954, “Saturn” from 1958. Throughout his life he works to obtain a kinetic and sculptural aesthetic that evokes a sense of movement in the space, stating that its appliances are “an alternative to Italian models, which began to invade the market in 1950”. His projects of these years are exhibited and sold at the Steph Simon Gallery on Boulevard Saint Germain in Paris, together with the works of Isamu Noguchi, Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier.

In 1955 Serge Mouille became a member of the Society of Artists of Decorative Arts and of the French National Art Society; in the same year he was awarded the prestigious Charles Plumet prize for his work and in 1958 he received a diploma of honor at the Brussels Expo. Towards the end of the 1950s Mouille began designing institutional lighting fixtures and became responsible for the lighting design of the Antony University, furnished by Jean Prouvé, for the schools of Strasbourg and Marseille and for the Bizerte cathedral , always continuing to create lamps also for private individuals and for the most famous galleries. Its most popular models, wall and ceiling, are the larger ones, with 5 and 7 arms, called “Araigné” in the colors black or more rarely white.

In the same years the invention of neon tubes inspired the artist to create a series of floor lamps that combine incandescence and fluorescence: these drawings, the “Colonnes” collection, debuted at the 1962 Paris Motor Show for interior design and are some of his best known late works. Very different from the previous collection, they support it without penalizing it, having two completely different aesthetics and two technologies.

In 1961 Serge Mouille founded SCM (Société de Création de Modèles) as a way to encourage young and emerging lighting designers; he continues to work and teach for the rest of his life, showing his lamps and jewels in various exhibitions around the world. For his career as a metal artist and designer, he received a medal of honor from the city of Paris in the late 1960s. His laboratory never stops creating these masterpieces, created by the skilled hands of a few selected collaborators; upon his death the atelier was carried on by the widow and then by the heirs, who continue to manufacture the original collection, by hand, without modification, numbering and certifying each specimen.

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