In 2020, Italian lighting publisher Flos re-released a modernized version of the Chiara table lamp created in 1969 by designer Mario Bellini. A UFO one would be tempted to say (Unidentified Light Object) at the time. Bellini had submitted his idea of a lamp delivered in a flatpack, the user having to "assemble" himself the object made of a single sheet of polished stainless steel, to the boss of Flos, Sergio Gandini. An elegant luminaire with its reflector in the shape of a hat cut into 2 parts... An example that demonstrates the avant-gardism of the publisher Flos. This article looks back at the publisher's history, much of which was shaped by its association with the Castiglioni brothers and resulted in the creation of now iconic vintage lamps.
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