Flos is a creative partner of the Milan Triennale for the A Castiglioni exhibition

Flos is Creative Partner of the Milan Triennale for the highly-anticipated monographic exhibition A Castiglioni, curated by Patricia Urquiola in collaboration with Federica Sala, on from October 6th, 2018 to January 20th, 2019 in the spaces of the Milanese cultural institution based in the Palazzo dell’Arte.

To celebrate the centenary of one of the most important Masters of Italian design, Flos, in collaboration with Studio Urquiola, has created an ironic and at the same time poetic site-specific installation entitled (traparentesi). A party of 100 Parentesi lamps which, like 100 candles, are activated by the presence of visitors, recreating the innate joy that Achille brought to every environment and transferred to every object. Lights and sounds, for a noisy, Jacques Tati-style Achille, always designing with the noise of the objects in mind. One can find the call of an owl, the noise of a switch being turned on, the bounces of a ping-pong ball and many other entertaining sounds bringing a voice to the lighting effect produced by the 100 Parentesi lamps, some of which have been hacked and hybridised for the occasion with unusual and surprising heads and light sources.

The story of Flos is intertwined in an indissoluble way with the Castiglioni brothers who, together with Tobia Scarpa, have been the reference designers of the company since its foundation, in the early 1960s, with an unprecedented fermentation of revolutionary ideas and intuitions that would lead to the creation of objects destined to remain forever in the history of design. In addition to the extraordinary series of cocoon lamps, such as Taraxacum, Viscontea and Gatto, the working relationship between Achille and Pier Giacomo with Sergio Gandini resulted in some iconic products such as Arco, Taccia, Toio and Snoopy. The successful and prolific collaboration of the Castiglioni brothers then continued with just Achille after the untimely death of Pier Giacomo, resulting in a new series of successes, with highlights including Lampadina, Aoy, Gibigiana, and Parentesi, the brilliant height-adjustable lamp designed in 1971 from a Pio Manzù’s spark, winner of a Compasso d’Oro ADI award and exhibited in the permanent collections of the most important design museums in the world.__

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