As we stepped into the Flos stand, we instantly felt drawn into the brand’s installation, The Light of the Mind, where we discovered many breathtaking products.
Like moths to a flame, we were instantly drawn to The Light of the Mind—the ethereal and thought-provoking installation by Flos presented during Salone del Mobile 2025. Taking place within the broader context of the Euroluce biennial, this year’s presentation marked a pivotal moment for the brand, arriving just months after Piero Gandini’s return as Executive Chairman and Artistic Supervisor of the Flos B&B Italia Group.
The installation, conceptualized by Formafantasma and built around seven non-linear video portraits, shed light—literally and metaphorically—on the poetic, messy, and beautifully human nature of design. Far from a conventional product showcase, The Light of the Mind offered an immersive journey through the imaginative terrain behind each piece. From the iconic re-edition of Tobia Scarpa’s Seki-Han, to Ronan Bouroullec’s Luce Sferica and Luce Cilindrica, to Konstantin Grcic’s Nocturne, each collection was a window into the mind of its creator.
Though all the lighting designs on display were nothing short of remarkable, three collections sparked our imagination. Linked, the poetic glass modular system by Michael Anastassiades, struck a delicate balance between structure and lightness. Erwan Bouroullec’s Maap, crafted from Tyvek and as flexible as paper, redefined what a wall lamp could be. And SuperWire by Formafantasma—a collection that has struck a chord beyond just us—extended from Eurluce and took over the Corso Monforte showroom entirely.
Whether at the Euroluce stand or the dedicated showroom installation, Flos challenged us to look beyond the object and into the flickering, intuitive process that brings it to life.
SuperWire by Formafantasma: A Dialogue of Light and Material
Originally launched last year and now produced in four variations, SuperWire’s presence extended beyond the Euroluce stand. The brand dedicated the entire space of its Corso Monforte Showroom to an installation displaying SuperWire, underscoring the collection’s growing resonance in the design world.
Its poised geometry and modular transparency reflect Formafantasma’s enduring interest in material culture and repairability, a narrative that aligned perfectly with the broader themes of Flos’ presentation.
SuperWire reimagines how light interacts with space and how objects can be made to last. The modular collection includes floor lamps, sconces, table versions, and suspended configurations. It is composed of hexagonal flat glass panels, an aluminum framework, and twelve slender LED strips encased in borosilicate tubes no thicker than spaghetti. These elements combine in a way that is both technically precise and poetically expressive.
Designed with longevity in mind, SuperWire enables easy disassembly and component replacement—a rarity in LED lighting. In reengineering the standard filament to achieve a warm, continuous glow without relying on traditional bulbs, Formafantasma offers a quietly radical proposition: that light, like design, can be both beautiful and built to evolve.
It is composed of hexagonal flat glass panels, an aluminum framework, and twelve slender LED strips encased in borosilicate tubes no thicker than spaghetti.
Maap by Erwan Bouroullec: Lightness with Intent
Among the standout pieces within The Light of the Mind installation, Maap by Erwan Bouroullec stood out for its delicate materiality and hands-on flexibility. Crafted from Tyvek—a featherlight, paper-like material known for its durability and translucency—Maap transforms an everyday industrial fabric into an object of quiet beauty. The lamp invites the user to become co-author of its final form thanks to a series of small magnetic “dots” that can be fixed directly onto it. The lamp’s sheet-like surface can be folded, shaped, and curved into endless configurations. It’s available in four sizes and can cover up to 4 meters of surface width. Whether you want to tuck it into a corner, billow it like a sail, or gently arch it along a surface, Maap responds with subtlety and grace.
This interactive approach not only reflects Bouroullec’s intuitive design language but aligns perfectly with the spirit of the installation by celebrating the associative, non-linear nature of the creative process. The light emitted through the semi-translucent Tyvek adds a soft, ambient glow, shifting depending on how the material is arranged. Maap is a sculptural, customizable element that turns the act of lighting a space into a tactile, creative experience. In a world increasingly filled with static, fixed forms, Maap offers something refreshingly open-ended—an object you live with, shape, and reshape over time.
Linked by Michael Anastassiades: A Chain of Light and Memory
Inspired by a fleeting moment in a sunlit church in Catania, Michael Anastassiades’s Linked transforms an everyday gesture into a poetic lighting system. The design is composed of slender borosilicate glass tubes shaped like a curved chain link that softly glow when connected. Available in lengths of 40, 80, and 120 cm, the modular elements can be hooked together with ease, lighting up sequentially to form an ethereal, vertical beam of light.
In some configurations, a glowing sphere in opaline white triplex blown glass, 400 mm in diameter, is suspended at the chain’s end, like a droplet of energy descending from above. With its spontaneous elegance, Linked blurs the line between light fixture and sculptural installation, recalling the jewelry-like improvisations that first inspired the designer.
Technically refined and scenographically expressive, Linked contains spring-loaded connectors like pogo pins that enable each piece to pass electricity to the next for infinite customization. Users can configure it into room-height cascades or suspended with precision above a dining table. Linked consists of LED strips enclosed in a silicone diffuser tube that ensures uniform 360° light distribution.
Linked elevates modularity into an art form, one that responds to architecture, atmosphere, and emotion. Within The Light of the Mind installation, it offered a luminous pause, an example of how even the simplest shapes can carry immense narrative weight.
