FLOS OK DESIGNED BY KONSTANTIN GRCIC
It is a truly enlightening story of design evolution, the one of the Parentesi lamp. Pio Manzù’s original idea of creating a “light source that can slide vertically from Õffi kf Z\`c`e^ Xe[ ifkXk\ *-' [\^i\\j fe its axis” was adapted by Achille Castiglife` X]k\i _`j ]i`\e[Ëj \Xicp [\Xk_ `e (0-0% A beautiful original illustration reveals the gX`ejkXb`e^ gifZ\jj f] i\Ôe\d\ek k_Xk kiXej]fid\[ k_\ Ôijk jZ_\dXk`Z ZfeZ\gkj `ekf k_\ ÔeXc gif[lZk% =CFJ cXleZ_\[ k_\ Parentesi lamp in 1972 and it has been in continuous production ever since. Forty years later, much has changed. The world of lighting has seen a fundamental shift from conventional bulbs to a variety of new lighting technologies which in themselves are creating new opportunities for the design and manufacturing of lamps. Designing a lamp is no longer limited to working around a given bulb. Today, it means designing the actual bulb or light source. This challenged me to think of Parentesi, a lamp that celebrated the traditional bulb in the most effective and beautiful way. Would it be possible to rethink the Parentesi lamp once more and pass the Manzù-Castiglioni torch on to the future?
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