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For fifty years, Flos has been creating objects of light and igniting generations of dreams. Founded in Merano in 1962 by Dino Gavina and Cesare Cassina, it had a period of strong growth starting in the 1970s: it acquired Arteluce, a historic Italian lighting company, inheriting the designs of Gino Sarfatti, still produced today. In the following decades it absorbed other companies and increasingly expanded the already very rich portfolio of designer lamps. The principles of Flos have always been to identify with the masters of design, to discover new talents, to have technical and technological authority and to integrate into mass culture. Flos has always been a cutting-edge company: experimentation has made it possible to adopt revolutionary materials, such as the cocoon in the past, and more advanced technological solutions, represented today by OLED and sustainable materials.

Konstantin Grcic is a German industrial designer. Born in 1965, he trained as a cabinetmaker at the John Makepeace School in England, before continuing his studies in Design at the Royal College of Art in London. In 1991 he founded his own studio, Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID) in Munich, where he developed furniture, products and lighting for some of the leading companies in the design field. Many of his works are part of the permanent collections of the most important design museums in the world and have received international design awards.