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Flos is friendly endorsing #TalkingToTheUniverse, a poetic art project that feels like a game. The visual artist Sophie Usunier invites people to spell out their feelings, transforming words into light according to the Morse code. Let’s play with light and make our favourite lamp talks: the only limit is our imagination

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To me, borders have very much a two-fold meaning. They can be immensely prohibitive but incredibly creative at the same time. For me, in terms of my work and personally as an immigrant, borders can be tremendously cruel and horrific, but at the same time, as a creative person, borders can be very interesting because, creatively speaking, limitation can actually have great value. Sometimes creative constraint can provide a reference point for you to go up against and to rebel against

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Japanese design studio Nendo created a modular box that is a light fixture, an accessory and a piece of furniture in one. Gaku allows users to create a miniature world of their own. Here we show how people with different interests and preferences – a jewelry lover, a bookworm and a plant enthusiast – might use Gaku to create their own still lifes: from pendant lamps to bowls, vases and wireless phone chargers

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Getting inside Shantell Martin’s studio at Mana Contemporary, in Jersey City, New York, can be confused with entering a dreamlike space. White walls enclose a wide open space hosting a white desk in its centre, with a wide white monitor on top. If Shantell is around, then her little dog Blanche is too (who is, obviously, candid white) “barking but not biting”, as Shantell would say

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It’s 3:30 p.m. and Maurizio Stocchetto, owner of the Bar Basso, crosses the door of the historic Milanese bar as usual, and with a smile across his face he greets us and orders his coffee. Son of Mirko Stocchetto, inventor of the famous “Negroni Sbagliato”, Maurizio is a funny and kind-hearted man. It’s from his father that he has inherited elegance as well as the talent of making you feel at home

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Many follow a lead just because it is fashionable, sure Jos Gibson is not one of them. He seeks things that he really likes and enjoy no matter the contest, being authentic to his true self

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The interaction with what surrounds us can unfurl infinite paths and possibilities, numerous developments of a story so unique that it only resembles itself.

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Leone likes beautiful things, and if they’re not beautiful, he makes them so, transforming the ordinary into extraordinary

Talk to the universe with Sophie Usunier and Flos

Defining paths and borders

A world of one’s own

Finding Shantell Martin

Curiosity drives the genie

Old fashioned never ages

Captains are meant to lead

Leone likes beautiful things