Flos

Established in 1962 in Merano, Italy, FLOS (“flower” in Latin) is recognized as a world leading manufacturer of innovative lighting solutions in the residential and architectural sectors, featuring high quality products and systems characterized by fine design. The company has grown significantly over more than fifty years in business, demonstrating its ongoing commitment to research and innovation in lighting, combined with an extraordinary ability to identify new creative talents. Organized into four divisions—Flos Architectural, Flos Decorative, Flos Outdoor, and Flos Bespoke—Flos incorporates a holistic, human-centered philosophy across the company.

Flos is, above all else, about craftsmanship. Starting with Artur Eisenkeil’s cocoon material, a special technique that has remained unchanged until today, and iconic designs like the Arco and Taccia lamps designed by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Flos immediately gained—and has maintained—a reputation for manufacturing masterfully poetic designs and forward-thinking inventions. With this exceptionally rich legacy propelling the brand forward, Flos continues to push boundaries and make timeless, ethereal icons, linking design and engineering with art and culture to profound effect. Form, function, and performance drives every Flos creation. Merging technology and emotion, Flos integrates light into architecture and nature, bringing a sophisticated, poetic sensibility to all that it does.

As a result the brand has cultivated long and successful partnerships with some of the world's most renowned lighting artists. FLOS has a rich catalogue of iconic products by legendary designers including Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Philippe Starck, Antonio Citterio, Piero Lissoni, Marcel Wanders, Konstantin Grcic, Jasper Morrison, Patricia Urquiola, Ron Gilad, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Michael Anastassiades, Vincent Van Duysen, Nendo, Formafantasma and many more.

Since its foundation in 1962, Flos’s products have been recognized through numerous international design awards and several pieces have become collection items for some of the world’s leading art and design museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, Les Arts Décoratifs and Le Centre Pompidou in Paris and many others. Flos has an ongoing commitment to research and innovation in lighting technology, combined with an extraordinary ability to identify new creative talents.

With plants in Italy and the US, Flos Bespoke’s outstanding capabilities range from the personalization of standard collections with special finishes and light sources, to the custom-tailoring of high performance products, up to the bespoke production of unique solutions for large-scale projects, where each device is designed and developed according to the most challenging architectural needs. Today Flos is the only company in the lighting field that is able to offer a complete range of fully integrated solutions. It exports to more than 70 countries worldwide and has single-brand stores in Rome, Milan, Paris, Lyon, New York, Stockholm and Hong Kong. Across the fields of retail, residential, hospitality, public spaces, and workspaces, Flos steps in to make the best of a building and its surroundings, highlighting its details and helping its truest essence shine.