Castaldi Lighting Competitors

Established in 1962 in Merano, Italy, FLOS is recognised as a world leading manufacturer of innovative lighting solutions in the residential and architectural sectors, featuring high quality products and systems characterised by fine design. The company has grown significantly over more than sixty years in business, demonstrating its ongoing commitment to research and innovation in lighting, combined with an extraordinary ability to identify new creative talents. FLOS has a rich catalogue of iconic products by legendary designers including Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Philippe Starck, Antonio Citterio, Piero Lissoni, Marcel Wanders, Konstantin Grcic, Jasper Morrison, Patricia Urquiola, Ron Gilad, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Michael Anastassiades, Vincent Van Duysen, Formafantasma and many more. Today, through four divisions that operate in synergy – Decorative, Architectural, Outdoor and Bespoke, Flos continues to respect and carry forward its extraordinary heritage in the pursuit of the unexpected, manufacturing top-end designer lights and innovative lighting solutions for every living environment, indoors and outdoors. The brand’s creations have received numerous international awards and many of them are now featured in the permanent collections of leading international art and design museums.

One of the best known illumination brands in the world, Artemide, known for its "The Human Light" philosophy, has become synonymous with design, quality and innovation. Founded in 1960s, the Artemide Group is one of the global leaders of the residential illumination sector and high end professional and contract lighting. Artemide has always collaborated with renowned international designers, contributing to the history of the international design with products like Eclisse (1967, from Vico Magistretti), Tolomeo (1989, from Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina) and Pipe (2004, from Herzog & De Meuron), all showed at the Compasso D'oro Awards. In 1994 Artemide received The "Compaso D'oro" career Award and European Design Prize In 1997. The Artemide Lamps are today considered as Design Icons of contemporary design; being exhibited in most museums of modern art and design collections.

‘to design is form of the verb to love’. we make the culture of light and we create wellbeing through the light. Viabizzuno is a company that for more than twenty years has been making design its own reason for living; to design is a way of being, thinking and acting dedicated at 360 degrees to every action and thought in life. to design is the building of ourselves, to design is to go strongly toward the improvement. to Viabizzuno, to design should not be intended as a simple professional activity, but a way to establish a relationship with life and the others. to design means to build something that lasts and keeps on living beyond temporary fashion. the project is a promise, a suggestion of quality and value, it is the way to fix the disorder of the world. Viabizzuno works, designs, produces, researches and innovates, trains its staff. for years it has been creating its own design philosophy to assert itself day by day not only like an industrial reality; it aims also to create an ethic design process.. the strenght of Viabizzuno relies on working toward a customised design, finding solutions that didn’t exist before, integrating light with architecture and so creating a recognizable image all over the world thanks to its formal and thinking integrity at the same time. Viabizzuno becomes a philosophy of life, a thought to follow by architects and designers in the world, an image in which to identify oneself, a style.