Noctambule by Konstantin Grcic for Flos selected for the ADI Design Index 2020
20/06/2021.
[Milan] Italy
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The successful collection of lamps designed by Konstantin Grcic for the manufacturer Flos, a leader in high-end design lighting, was selected for participation in the competition for the 27th edition of Compasso D’Oro ADI in Milan, Italy. Thus adding to the exclusive selection that make up the ADI Design Index 2020.
The Flos industry, apart from receiving the work of Konstantin Grcic, has a large number of catalogs of lamps created by legendary names in the history of design, some such as Antonio Citterio, or Piero Lissoni among many others.
The Flos industry, apart from receiving the work of Konstantin Grcic, has a large number of catalogs of lamps created by legendary names in the history of design, some such as Antonio Citterio, or Piero Lissoni among many others.
Noctambule by Konstantin Grcic for Flos selected for the ADI Design Index 2020. Photograph by Santi Caleca
Noctambule by Konstantin Grcic for Flos selected for the ADI Design Index 2020. Photograph by Santi Caleca
Noctambule by Konstantin Grcic for Flos selected for the ADI Design Index 2020. Photograph by Santi Caleca
Noctambule by Konstantin Grcic for Flos selected for the ADI Design Index 2020. Photograph by Santi Caleca
Noctambule by Konstantin Grcic for Flos selected for the ADI Design Index 2020. Photograph by Santi Caleca
Noctambule by Konstantin Grcic for Flos selected for the ADI Design Index 2020. Photograph by Santi Caleca
Noctambule by Konstantin Grcic for Flos selected for the ADI Design Index 2020. Photograph by Santi Caleca
Noctambule by Konstantin Grcic for Flos selected for the ADI Design Index 2020. Photograph by Santi Caleca
Noctambule by Konstantin Grcic for Flos selected for the ADI Design Index 2020. Photograph by Santi Caleca
Noctambule by Konstantin Grcic for Flos selected for the ADI Design Index 2020. Photograph by Santi Caleca
The designer Konstantin Grcic, apart from developing in this case the luminaire collection with cylindrical glass volumes in collaboration with Flos, continues with two lamps already winners of the most prestigious international design award: Mayday in 2001 and OK in 2016.
The collection for Flos consists of a series of blown glass lamps combined with LED lighting technology, with a glass material and a design that makes them imperceptible during the day and striking at night, and is that the cylindrical design allows the light to generate illumination from the floor to the ceiling.
The collection for Flos consists of a series of blown glass lamps combined with LED lighting technology, with a glass material and a design that makes them imperceptible during the day and striking at night, and is that the cylindrical design allows the light to generate illumination from the floor to the ceiling.
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The collection of lamps designed by Konstantin Grcic, comprising elegant modules in blown glass, will be taking part in the 27th edition of the Compasso D’Oro ADI
Milan, June 2021 - Noctambule, the elegant ethereal collection of modular lamps designed for Flos by Konstantin Grcic in 2019, has been added to the exclusive selection of products that make up the ADI Design Index 2020, earning its place among the best design creations that will compete for the 27th Compasso D’Oro.
Noctambule teams the tradition of blown glass with LED technology to create a real sculpture in light. During the day, the graceful clearness of the lamps makes them almost invisible. They come into their own at night, generating refined vertical lighting from the ground and the ceiling, with cylindrical modules in blown glass linked together by delicate rings of light. The elements in the collection can be completed with dome- or cone-shaped caps, creating a majestic column of light that will personalise even the most unusual of settings.
The successful partnership between the designer Konstantin Grcic and Flos thus continues, with two lamps resulting from this collaboration already recipients of the most prestigious international design award: Mayday in 2001 and OK in 2016.
The ADI Design Index 2020 has also seen selection, for the Exhibition Design section, of the Design Holding Pavilion: the trade fair stand conceived by Calvi Brambilla. Four thousand metres of exhibition space designed for the three companies (Flos, B&B Italia, and Lous Poulsen) in three separate areas that however shared a single construction in the middle of the S.Project space at the 2019 Salone del Mobile in Milan.
It tells the story shared by three strong individual identities that boast extraordinary design backgrounds, together with the capacity to continually source new talents and put forward objects that take on symbolic value. The interactive tunnel at the entrance to the complex shows just how vital a link the three companies have with history, providing confirmation, also visually, of the close connection between cult objects from the past and new ones designed by contemporary maestros.
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Konstantin Grcic
Konstantin Grcic, born in 1965, first trained as a cabinetmaker at the British John Makepeace School and began studying industrial design in 1988 at the Royal College of Art in London. He began his career with Jasper Morrison and in 1991 founded his own design studio in Munich, KGID (Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design). Since then his designs have distinguished such brands as Authentics, Flos, Magis, Vitra, ClassiCon, Plank, Laufen and Muji. Many of his works are exhibited by prominent international design museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Grcic was selected “Designer of the Year” in the United States at Design Miami/2010.
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