Lighting factory Flos was found in 1962 in Merano by Dino Gavina and Cesare Cassina. In 1971 Flos opened its first subsidiary in Germany. In 1974 it purchased Arteluce, a historical brand founded in 1939 by Gino Sarfatti, and opened a new factory in Bovezzo, just outside the city of Brescia.

The factory is in continuous experiment with the form and material before achieving the highest functionality and pleasant appearance. The ideas of the company’s management team are immediately developed by culture, vision and talent of designers in fruitful and inspiring cooperation with their own ‘know-how’.

The creation of new vision of light and some new elements in design, using past and present the factory creates things ‘out of time’, such as "Arco" (1962) by designers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, or "Arà" by Philippe Starck. So Flos is the leading player in the international market of lighting production.

One of the first materials the lighting factory Flos experimented with was cocoon, a very pliable material that was firstly made in the USA.

Today Flos has 11 branches and affiliated companies, 5 leading brand shops, the last of which has opened in Kuala Lumpur in 2006, and a worldwide net of distribution. The sphere of interest of Flos is very varied - from house lamps to specially made projects (with architect light and the lamps that are created specially for the concrete client under his own design of an interior).