FLOS Arrangements – Nominee for London Design Museum’s Beazley Designs of the Year
Arrangements, the collection of modular chandeliers designed by Michael Anastassiades for FLOS, has been announced 2018 nominee of the Beazley Design of the Year, the London Design Museum’s annual celebration of the most original and exciting products, concepts and designers in the world today.
Now in its eleventh year, the international awards and exhibition showcase design projects from the past 12 months, across six categories: Architecture, Design, Fashion, Product, Graphics, and Transport. Design experts, practitioners and academics from across the world are asked by the Design Museum to suggest potential projects, from which the museum has selected 87 for nomination to display in the exhibition, opened from 12th September 2018 to 6th January 2019. A specially selected jury will choose a winner for each category and an overall winner – to be announced in November 2018.
Arrangements is displayed at the Design Museum in four individual configurations of one, two, three, and four lighting modules, like jewellery chains, hinting at the endless possible creative combinations that this innovative, sophisticated and highly technological design project can offer.
About FLOS
Established in 1962 in Merano, Italy, FLOS is recognized as a world leading manufacture of innovative lighting solutions in the residential and architectural sectors, featuring high quality products and systems characterized by fie design. The company has a rich catalogue of iconic products by legendary designers including Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Philippe Starck, Antonio Citterio, Piero Lissoni, Marcel Wanders, Konstantin Grcic, Jasper Morrison, Patricia Urquiola, Ron Gilad, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Michael Anastassiades, Vincent Van Duysen, Nendo, Formafantasma and many more.
The company has grown significantly over more than fifty years in business, demonstrating its ongoing commitment to research and innovation in lighting, combined with an extraordinary ability to identify new creative talents.
In November 2014, the entry of the private equity fund Investindustrial into the FLOS’ capital marked the start of a further plan of industrial development and international expansion. In June 2015, FLOS acquired Italian architectural outdoor lighting company Ares and the outdoor division became the Group’s fourth production unit, alongside the historical design, architectural and custom products sectors.
FLOS is today the only company in the lighting field that is able to offer a complete range of fully integrated solutions. It exports to more than 70 countries worldwide and has single-brand stores in Rome, Milan, Paris, Lyon, New York, Stockholm and Hong Kong. The brand’s creations have received numerous international awards and many of them are now featured in the permanent collections of leading international art and design museums.
