At the origin of Flos lies the concept of luminosity: the idea of creating objects from a light bulb that could change the way people live, not just Italians. Thus, in the early 1960s, a certain Mr. Gavina, from the small manufacturer Eisenkeil in Merano, after having created many new furniture pieces (with Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Afra and Tobia Scarpa, and other design masters), got it into his head that it was also time to create new lamps. So, the Castiglioni brothers and the Scarpas, using the cocoon technique, invented in the United States and pioneered by Eisenkeil, began manufacturing lamps like the Taraxacum or the Fantasma. These early lamps were followed by many more, beautiful and surprising ones: thus, even in its prehistory, Flos (Latin for “flower,” the name given by Pier Giacomo Castiglioni) found itself reinventing the idea of artificial lighting.
SERENA
Patricia UrquiolaTable lighting device with indirect and reflected light. Extruded aluminum heatsink, photo-etched black polycarbonate cut-off, photo-etched optical PMMA diffuser. Braided and folded pre-anodized aluminum reflector. Electric cable with a useful length of 200 cm, with a switch to regulate the intensity, guarantees the on and off functions (ON/OFF) and the regulation of the luminous flux 10-100%. Plug-in power supply with interchangeable plugs.
Serena is a table lamp augmented by Patricia Urquiola characterized by an oval leaf-shaped diffuser that provides indirect and reflected light. Light serena that plays with diffusers, reflecting or allowing light to pass through. It is inspired by the natural world, in leaves of different shapes and colors.