Flos Smithfield, Glo Ball and More

Flos are long established as one of the worlds premier designers in their field and are responsible for some design icons.

Flos was founded in 1962 in Merano by Dino Gavina and Cesare Cassina, who wished to produce modern lighting. To develop new lighting concepts, they enlisted the aid of Achille Castiglioni, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni and Tobia Scarpa. One of the first materials they experimented with was cocoon, a very pliable material made in the USA. In 1964 Sergio Gandini joined the company, and the headquarters were moved to a new site near Brescia. The first Flos retail store, designed by the Castiglioni brothers (Achille and Pier Giacomo), opened in Milan in 1968. Pino Tovaglia designed the logo, and Max Huber the catalogues.

Today Flos is an international organization that offers a complete range of residential, commercial and even custom-made lighting products that can be seamlessly integrated in any office, hotel, or store, together with a specifically designed line of informative materials, among which a corporate manual. Their most popular products include the Flos Smithfield, Flos Glo Ball and Flos KTribe although there are plenty of amazing products from Flos to choose from.

The catalogue showcases items that now rightfully belong to the history of design: forms, lighting techniques, original design concepts invented by Flos, readily acclaimed and adopted by consumers across multi-cultural areas and eras. Among these: Parentesi by Achille Castiglioni and Pio Manzù; Arco and Taraxacum by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni; Miss Sissi, Archimoon, the Romeo series and the Flos Ktribe series by Philippe Starck; the Flos Glo Ball series by Jasper Morrison; Flos Skygarden and Zeppelin suspension lights by Marcel Wanders; the 2097 chandelier by Gino Sarfatti; Ray by Rodolfo Dordoni; Flos Kelvin by Antonio Citterio with Toan Nguyen; Nebula by Joris Laarman.

Browse our selection of Flos lighting and lighting from other popular designers online or see our selection of designer furniture to find the perfect piece to match your new lighting style!