Lighting suspended from belts and lamps that appear to grow out of tables were launched as part of Flos' extensive 50th anniversary collection at this year's Salone del Mobile.
The lighting brand enlisted heavyweight designers such as Michael Anastassiades, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Antonio Citterio, Formafantasma, Piero Lissoni, Nendo, Philippe Starck and Patricia Urquiola for the 2019 collections.
Pieces shown by the brand also included two reissues ? the Chiara lamp by Mario Bellini from the 1960s, and a re-release of the first edition of the brand's Bulbo lamp ? a 1957 design by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni.
Bellini's Chiara lamp was reissued by Flos as part of its 2019 collections
The Italian lighting company joined the newly incorporated Design Holding group in September 2018, along with B&B Italia and fellow lighting brand Louis Poulsen. The latest Flos collections were exhibited as part of Design Holding for the first time, at their mammoth Salone del Mobile stand. The new furniture and lighting group showcased its brands in three distinctive areas of an all-white, 4,000-square-metre stand designed by Calvi Brambilla.
Michael Anastassiades debuted an outdoor version of his Captain Flint lamp
Formafantasma's WireLine is composed of an LED light source within a ribbed glass extrusion and supported by swooping lengths of flat pink rubber cable designed to look like belts.
"The lamp plays on the contrast between the industrial feeling of the ru...