Historic ‘Cocoon’ Family relaunched by Flos
In 1959 Arturo Eisenkeil from Merano, an importer of cocoon — a spray-on plastic coating produced in the United States at the time was tracking down possible applications for this new material. Inspired by the work of George Nelson, he joined forces with Dino Gavina and Cesare Cassina and set up a company to produce lighting fixtures – and so Flos was born.
This marked the beginning of a long-standing association 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.
