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other Cocoon series lights:

Taraxacum S2
suspension lamp
(large)

designers:
Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
Achille Castiglioni

design year:
1960

manufacturer:
Flos, Italy

materials:
steel frame, sprayed resin with a protective transparent finish

notes:
accommodates one 100 watt halogen bulb, included.

In 1959, Arturo Eisenkeil from Merano, an importer of cocoon - a spray-on plastic coating produced in the United States - was tracking down possible applications for this new material. He joined forces with Dino Gavina and Cesare Cassina and set up a company to produce lighting fixtures. This marked the beginning of the long-standing association in the area of design with the Castiglioni brothers and Tobia Scarpa. The first cocoon lamps ever created were the offspring of this collaboration: Viscontea, Taraxacum and Gatto by the Castiglioni brothers and Fantasma by Scarpa. At the Milan International Furniture Fair in 2005, Flos re-introduced the Cocoon Series fixtures, along with this "Cocoon"-inspired suspension light by Marcel Wanders.

accommodates one 100 watt halogen bulb, included.

dimensions:
Ø 34", height: 25", cord length: 8'

price:
$2,280.00