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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.

Achille Castiglioni (1918 - 2002) and Pier Giacomo (1913 - 1968) were born in Milan where, together with their brother Livio (1911-1979) they began their professional activity, giving life to a design activity entirely characterized by research into "new" shapes, techniques and materials, tending towards the creation of an "integral" design process. Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni are among the founders of the Association for Industrial Design.