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Shot in flux, a minimal home and studio in the north of Italy, where design icons and lights coexist in the space.
A place where indoor merges with the outdoors, where pure volumes minimally define the space, where brutalist-inspired concrete monoliths stand in contrast with the industrial elements of the house’s previous life

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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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MISO and String Light

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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The power of Scheltens and Abbenes’ photographs hides in their ability to visually reveal the multi-layered meanings of things. They transport the viewer into their way of looking at the world and employ a great variety of strategies, such as framing scenes in surprising ways, creating unfamiliar arrangements, and zooming in on details which usually escape from a viewer’s attention. I caught up with Maurice and Liesbeth over Skype while they were sheltering in place in Amsterdam. During isolation, at the request of Flos, they had turned their lens inward to document their own home and the things in it

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As humans, we crave togetherness. With family, with friends, with the people we love. But, for many of us, time in quarantine has taught us something: we also need a bit of privacy. When, in 1973, Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill and his father, Emilio, created a summer house in Mont-ras, a few kilometres from the Costa Brava, they had this in mind. The radical home they built didn’t propose 24/7 family time. Rather, it suggested a harmonious balance between being together and being apart

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In a 13th century Italian palazzo in Brescia, Edoardo Monti has established a dynamic artist residency, bringing together creatives from around the world. We caught up with him in May, just as Italy emerged from its two-month lockdown, to talk about building community, the future of art shows, and what it’s really like to be quarantined in a palazzo

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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

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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

Flos meets a photographer’s home

Talk to the universe with Sophie Usunier and Flos

Defining paths and borders

Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes

Ricardo Bofill’s Casa Familiar

Palazzo Monti

Curiosity drives the genie

Old fashioned never ages

Captains are meant to lead

Leone likes beautiful things

A world of one’s own

Finding Shantell Martin