GUSTAVE ON TOUR

To celebrate Vincent Van Duysen’s first portable light for Flos, we took it on a trip to three restaurants: Rosetta in Mexico City, Lode & Stijn in Berlin, and Saga in New York, testing its design possibilities and adaptable nature in a series of diverse settings. At each location, the lamp’s soft glow charmingly graces the tables, contributing to the atmosphere.

Gustave was imagined as a perfect dining companion. Compact, elegant and adaptable, Van Duysen’s portable light adapts to different interiors and moods. Versatile, distinctive and minimal, this lamp was inspired by Adolf Loos’s iconic table lamps, and named after Monsieur Gustave H., the legendary concierge of Wes Anderson’s aesthetic masterpiece Grand Budapest Hotel.

Its soft, compact forms conceal a combination of LEDs and patented lens, whose unique positioning results in a bright beam, falling obliquely on the surface underneath and stretching around the stem with an even, 360° illuminating effect.