Milan: FF 2013 – Flos – Re-lighting
Gino Sarfatti. Re-lighting Gino
Sarfatti, or rather bringing his work back to light, appeared to Flos as a
fitting and captivating challenge. It is
fitting because Sarfatti was probably the greatest Italian lightening designer.
Active between 1939 and 1973, he
renovated and updated traditional typologies and invented new functions for
light, designing over six hundred lamps and fittings that were all produced by
Arteluce, the company he founded in 1939 and sold to Flos in 1973. This legacy posed a responsibility that could
no longer be left on the shelf.
Flos – Re-lighting Gino Sarfatti. Detracting nothing from the integrity of the
lamps’ original forms, it was essential to bring these objects into the present
day, “re-lighting” them by adopting cutting-edge LED technology, which had to
be introduced with the upmost sophistication yet without being invasive.
Above. Droplight, Model 2129 designed by Gino
Sarfatti in 1969.
Flos – Re-lighting Gino Sarfatti. Table
Lamp, Model 548 designed by Gino Sarfatti in 1951.