Lighting designer Michael Anastassiades and Italian manufacturer Flos created two restrained, poetic lighting families: String Lights and IC Lights. Both use simple geometric forms to turn the light source itself into a sculptural element, with the designs shown internationally after their European debut.
Pendant light designs: String Lights and IC Lights
String Lights won the 2014 EDIDA award in the Lighting category, and both collections show that practical lighting can also shape the character of a room. Their spare forms invite individual arrangements rather than a fixed decorative gesture.
String Lights by Michael Anastassiades for Flos
Inspired by street lamps, festival lights, and telegraph wires in European cities, London-based Cypriot designer Michael Anastassiades created the String Lights collection for Flos. Thin black cables connect cone- and sphere-shaped lamps, drawing geometric lines through the air.
With LED light sources
The lights resemble telegraph wires
The String Lights pendants emit a soft, atmospheric light. The bodies are made from die-cast aluminum and are available in a matte black finish with LED light sources. A long Kevlar-reinforced coaxial cable can be stretched through the room, so the pendant light design becomes a graphic line as well as a functional lamp.
Free-standing pendant lights: IC Lights
The IC Lights lamps are offered with refined metal frames and hand-blown opal glass diffusers. They form a clean synthesis of balance, form, and function, giving the room a sculptural point of light.
Photos by Graham Carlow and Giuseppe Brancato
String Lights
Minimalist hanging lights
IC Lights Collection
Peter Dark
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