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Parentesi 50

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Categories:	Interior lighting ›Pendant lights

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Good design creates relationships - between people, objects, technologies. But when it allows for impossible connections to occur, it evokes the idea of magic. It is indeed the word magic that springs to mind when thinking about the story of Parentesi, the lamp by Pio Manzù and Achille Castiglioni, produced by Flos since 1971 and presented for its 50th anniversary in the new editions Turquoise and Orange Signal. The story of Parentesi is the story of a dialogue that never happened, a story of ingenuity fueled by a passion for everyday objects, and an example of the respect that those who create should have for the creativity of others.

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Articles about Parentesi 50

INTERVIEWS

Three questions to Marco Dessí

4/20/2022

Industrial and product designer Marco Dessí was born in the Italian city of Merano in the South Tyrolean Alps and lives in Vienna. He tells us in an interview why design is an interactive process for him and it is worthwhile to reinterpret the work of the old masters.

DESIGN

FLOS 2021: PARENTESI 50

10/11/2021

For the 50th anniversary of the classic "Parentesi" luminaire, FLOS presents a new edition in Turquoise and Orange Signal.

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DESIGN

Stylepark Selected Award 2022

11/28/2022

With the Stylepark Selected Award 2022, Stylepark honours the best new products of the year. These are the award winners.

ARCHITECTURE

Raising the curtain in the boiler hall

11/7/2022

In the west of Munich, Stenger2 Architekten and the interior experts at Arnold/Werner are transforming the former Aubing thermal power station into a monumental cultural meeting place complete with bat biotope. It is to go by the name of Bergson Kunstkraftwerk.

INTERVIEWS

Looking Ahead

10/31/2022

Roberta Silva has been CEO of the traditional Italian company Flos since 2019. In an interview she talked to Stylepark publishers about how she is dealing with the lighting manufacturer's successful past and what her plans for the future look like.

DESIGN

FLOS 2022: ALMENDRA

8/30/2022

With the "Almendra" pendant lamp, Patricia Urquiola has created a modular organism for Flos whose design is based on the poetic aesthetics of an almond tree.

ARCHITECTURE

Two in One   

8/29/2022

In Berlin's West, the architecture office Coordination has converted two attic flats into an elegant penthouse. Now the Wilhelminian architecture serves as a colourful backdrop for the art.

ARCHITECTURE

A house that grows with you

8/5/2022

Designed by Stuttgart-based architecture practice Yonder, Haus S together with the adjacent sauna annex forms an ensemble that boasts an extraordinary view out over the Allgäu countryside.

3DAYSOFDESIGN 2022 – REVIEW

Ten out of three

6/20/2022

Due to the pandemic, the 3daysofdesign took place this year from 15 to 17 June and once again showed how varied Scandinavian design can be. "Remember to Play" was the motto, which Luca Nichetto translated graphically. We have selected ten highlights from the numerous showrooms and exhibition areas.

ARCHITECTURE

Alpine Grandeur

6/13/2022

A modern "village in village" is currently taking shape on land formerly used by the military in Andermatt, Switzerland. The project is a brainchild of entrepreneur Samih Sawiris and one element of it is "Mira", an apartment house designed by Ilg Santer Architekten and atelier 522, containing 18 duplex apartments. It is scheduled for completion by 2023.

DESIGN

Projection forward

1/28/2022

Why do chairs have to be connected to crash bars? And what is the purpose of installing a fire hose on an armchair? In his “New Normals” solo show in Berlin's Haus am Waldsee, Konstantin Grcic shows how much our idea of normality is associated with objects.

DESIGN

FLOS 2021: ARGENT MOON

11/15/2021

FLOS offers its successful "Coordinates" collection by Michael Anastassiades in a new colour: Argent Moon.

DESIGN

Stylepark Selected Award 2021

11/10/2021

With the Stylepark Selected Award 2021, Stylepark honours the best new products of the year. These are the award winners.

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Parentesi 50 by Flos

10/27/2021

The history of the creation of "Parentesi" by Flos is that of a collaboration between two designers who passed the baton to each other without knowing each other: Pio Manzù, developer of the legendary...

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