Flos Floor lamp White Metal. Dimensions: H 189 cm – Base: Ø 60 cm –
Cable: L 280 cm. Floor lamp sold without bulb: compatible bulb sold separately.
After a memorable career spanning over 60 years, designer and architect Achille
Castiglioni (1918 – 2002) has gifted the world of design with an exceptional
legacy. Having won seven Compasso d'Oro, he was one of the most significant
industrial designers of the 20th Century. From 1952 onwards, he worked
alongside his brother, Pier Giacomo, until the latter passed away in 1968. The
Achille brothers and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni created lighting and furnishings
that became iconic features in the history of design, contributing to endless
successful collaborations with huge names: Flos, Zanotta and Alessi. Generally
sober and stripped back, the Castiglioni brothers' creations innovate with their
apparent simplicity, which often hides real work around the balance of forms and
use of new materials. The designers had fun rejecting the traditional form of
classic utilitarian items (such as the floor lamp), to offer inventive
reinterpretations, always rational but sculptural, full of humour and tinged
with poetry. Created in 1954, the Luminator floor lamp has become a design icon.
It's composed of a simple spotlight placed at the end of a tube, mounted on a
tripod which adds stability as much as it humanises the light. In 1955, for his
Luminator lamp, Achille Castiglioni received the first of many Compasso d'Oro
awards – the most prestigious accolade in Italian design. The bulb, sat atop
the lamp's cylindrical body, projects a halo of light around the entire room.
Mastering the art of being simple without being simplistic, this post-war floor
lamp is a stunning demonstration of the Castiglioni brothers' quest to
contribute to avant-garde modernism, flirting with minimalism. The Castiglioni
brothers' aim was to find a form of minimal design that would allow the object
to fulfil its required functions. The aim was to reach a point where, in their
own words, you could not do any less. With Luminator, they tried to bring the
object back to its simplest expression. The design was streamlined and
clarified, focusing on ergonomics and functionality. Timeless and modern,
Luminator stands out with the balance and attention to detail with which the
materials were used, the exemplary simplicity of the composition, the adaptation
of the light source to the supporting structure, and the dimensional relations
between the parts. A product rooted in a discreet tone of anthracite grey, the
iconic and minimal design has been updated with a new, extraordinary palette of
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