Founded in Italy in 1962, Flos has established itself as a "manufacturer of the art of illumination" since its opening, and has collaborated with internationally renowned designers such as Achille Castiglioni, Piergiacomo Castiglioni and Philippe Starck for decades. Flos has achieved an excellent balance between unconventional creativity and simple and practical functions, and has become an industry leader, producing luminaires that enjoy a high reputation in Europe, the United States and even around the world.
Flos means "flower" in Latin. Taking inspiration from nature or the things around us, with the help of technological innovation and the experiment of new materials, and finally concretizing the creativity into the modern and concise design of the lamp, this is an important reason why Flos is loved by users and designers. As a professional lighting manufacturer, Flos has a wide range of mass-produced and customized products, and there are more than 10 independent products to choose from in the more niche floor lamp segment of home lighting. In China, consumers are most familiar with and have the highest sales volume of Arco and IC series.
Arco was one of the first creations designed by the Castiglioni brothers for Flos. Exaggerated but not insolent, practical features have made the Arco endured for decades and copied by various manufacturers. Arco, known as the "fishing lamp" in China, originally designed a floor lamp to replace the traditional table chandelier, so it designed a steel lamp pole with a very large arc. The marble base is small but stable enough to be connected to a slender adjustable rod and a metal openwork shade that scatters light from the upper and lower ends, providing both lighting and decorative functions. The biggest advantage of Arco is that it covers most of the use scenarios of chandeliers, and maintains the unique mobility of floor lamps, which is suitable for placing in living rooms, dining tables, leisure areas and other areas. It is worth noting that the poles of the Arco fishing lights have a large arc, but the stability is guaranteed due to the use of thick marble as the base.
The original Arco uses natural marble and metal and other materials, and the price is as high as 23,000 yuan. There are also many imitations of Arco fishing lights on domestic online shopping platforms, and the price is only a few hundred yuan, but most of these lamps use lighter materials as bases, which are easy to be knocked down by children or the elderly, so please choose carefully.
Launched in 2014, IC's lighting collection, including chandeliers, wall lamps, floor lamps and table lamps, was designed by Michael Anastassiades, known as the "Poet of Light". The IC series floor lamp features a slender and capable brass pole with a clear varnish and chrome finish; The lampshade design was canceled and replaced with a milky white bulb with a spherical bulb, which brought a bit of warmth. This floor lamp is a good balance of elegance and simplicity, and is suitable for large, modern and minimalist spaces. There are two models of IC floor lamps: F1 and F2, both of which are completely consistent in design and material, but the size and weight of F2 are larger, and the brightness of the bulb has also been improved, and it is recommended to choose a larger space, priced at about 7000-10000 yuan.
Compared with the above two popular products, Flos's other floor lamps are a little too "ungrounded", and ordinary home appliances are more difficult to control. Automatic rifle-shaped light poles, cocoon-inspired bases, and tubes made of several transparent glass cylinders stacked on top of each other...... These floor lamps are more like works of art than household lamps.
Like most high-end design lighting brands, most of Flos' floor lamps do not contain bulbs (except for the IC series), and consumers have to buy them themselves. Fortunately, there will be matching bulbs for sale within the brand, so you only need to spend some extra time and money to buy them. At present, Chinese consumers can buy Flos lamps and lanterns in the overseas flagship store of dmlights, the Tmall international designer lighting brand hall.
