Luce Orizzontale S1

For fifty years, Flos has been creating objects of light and igniting generations of dreams. Founded in Merano in 1962 by Dino Gavina and Cesare Cassina, it had a period of strong growth starting in the 1970s: it acquired Arteluce, a historic Italian lighting company, inheriting the designs of Gino Sarfatti, still produced today. In the following decades it absorbed other companies and increasingly expanded the already very rich portfolio of designer lamps. The principles of Flos have always been to identify with the masters of design, to discover new talents, to have technical and technological authority and to integrate into mass culture. Flos has always been a cutting-edge company: experimentation has made it possible to adopt revolutionary materials, such as the cocoon in the past, and more advanced technological solutions, represented today by OLED and sustainable materials.

The brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, born respectively in 1971 and 1976 in Quimper, are a duo of French designers. They study at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Cergy-Pontoise. Ronan immediately began working as an independent designer after completing his studies, with the help of his younger brother, still a student. Since 1999, the brothers have been working together in their associated studio in Paris, where they create designer furniture, vases, tableware and accessories for home and office interiors. From 2002 they began to collaborate with the Vitra brand.