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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.

Jasper Morrison is an English industrial designer, born in London in 1959. He graduated from Kingston Polytechnic Design School and continued his studies at the Royal Collage of Art and the Hochschule der Künst in Berlin. In 1986 he opened his studio in London, where he designed design objects that fit perfectly into everyday environments. Together with his colleague Naoto Fukasawa he coined the term "super-normal", the name of the exhibition he set up in Japan in 2006, to indicate what good design should be: sober, useful and responsible.