The Flos/LightForm party was packed with international design stars (and some awesome lights too)
On Friday night, Niagara Street lit up with the opening of the first ever Canadian Flos flagship store in partnership with LightForm. The enormous warehouse, located between King and Queen Street, was shoulder to shoulder with local and international designers and architects, including Fabio Novembre, Piero Lissoni, Claus Sendlinger, Eero Koivisto, Caroline Robbie, Rick Mugford, Mason’ s Stanley Sun and Ashley Rumsey and Restaurant Makeover’ s Glen Pelos o. Check out some of Flos and LightForm’s beautiful creations and the scene from the party in a gallery after the jump.
Flos, an Italian lighting manufacturer, was one of the most talked about booths at IDS, where CEO Piero Gandini presented one of the coolest lamps we’ve ever seen. Designed by Philippe Starck, it does double duty as a lamp and a charger for your iPad or iPhone (an obvious necessity). LightForm founder Richard Assaly gave us a tour of the space, explaining that the showroom was kept relatively “bare bones” to keep the focus on the product. Concrete floors, exposed ceilings and simple wooden crates give the space a gallery feel that’s dramatic (there are lights everywhere, after all), yet inviting. Quirky installations, like a gigantic crack in one piece of drywall filled with 18-karat gold and a squiggly installation of light rods changing from green to pink to purple, made for great conversation pieces.
With multiple rooms to explore and product literally lighting up every corner, partygoers mingled, relaxed in the Flux seating clusters and congratulated each other (and themselves) for making it to the halfway point of the show (and for being so awesome). There was an excited buzz in the room as younger designers got the opportunity to hang out with some of their icons, and we’re certain more than a few light bulbs went off.
114838 <a href="http://www.torontolife.com/daily/style/design-scout/">Click to see more Interior Design Show 2012 coverage »</a> (Image: Simone Olivero) FLOS/LightForm party https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/FLOS-LIGHTFORM-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/FLOS-LIGHTFORM.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/FLOS-LIGHTFORM.jpg 656 437 [] https://torontolife.com/style/interior-design-show-2012-flos-and-lightform-party/slide/flos-lightform/ flos-lightform 0 0
114840 Some Flos and LightForm light magic (Image: Simone Olivero) Flos/LightForm party https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty15-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty15.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty15.jpg 624 414 [] https://torontolife.com/style/interior-design-show-2012-flos-and-lightform-party/slide/jan12idsparty15/ jan12idsparty15 0 0
114841 Shauna Levy, curator of the Interior Design Show (Image: Simone Olivero) Flos/LightForm party https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty14-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty14.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty14.jpg 466 700 [] https://torontolife.com/style/interior-design-show-2012-flos-and-lightform-party/slide/jan12idsparty14/ jan12idsparty14 0 0
114842 Realtor Jim Gallagher and Warren Gyulay, winner of the Cecconi Simone design competition Design Interns (Image: Simone Olivero) Flos/LightForm party https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty13-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty13.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty13.jpg 466 700 [] https://torontolife.com/style/interior-design-show-2012-flos-and-lightform-party/slide/jan12idsparty13/ jan12idsparty13 0 0
114843 Flos CEO Piero Gandini and colleague Barbara Politi (Image: Simone Olivero) Flos/LightForm party https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty12-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty12.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty12.jpg 466 700 [] https://torontolife.com/style/interior-design-show-2012-flos-and-lightform-party/slide/jan12idsparty12/ jan12idsparty12 0 0
114844 <em>Restaurant Makeover’</em>s Glen Peloso Flos/LightForm party https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty11-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty11.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty11.jpg 466 700 [] https://torontolife.com/style/interior-design-show-2012-flos-and-lightform-party/slide/jan12idsparty11/ jan12idsparty11 0 0
114845 LightForm president Richard Assaly and Piero Lissoni (Image: Simone Olivero) Flos/LightForm party https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty10-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty10.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty10.jpg 466 700 [] https://torontolife.com/style/interior-design-show-2012-flos-and-lightform-party/slide/jan12idsparty10/ jan12idsparty10 0 0
114846 Kelly Cray and Neil Jonsohn, principal designers at Union 31 (Image: Simone) Flos/LightForm party https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty9-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty9.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty9.jpg 466 700 [] https://torontolife.com/style/interior-design-show-2012-flos-and-lightform-party/slide/jan12idsparty9/ jan12idsparty9 0 0
114847 Mason Studio partners Ashley Rumsey and Stanley Sun (Image: Simone Olivero) Flos/LightForm party https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty8-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty8.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty8.jpg 466 700 [] https://torontolife.com/style/interior-design-show-2012-flos-and-lightform-party/slide/jan12idsparty8/ jan12idsparty8 0 0
114848 Designer Fabio Novembre (Image: Simone Olivero) Flos/LightForm party https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty7-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty7.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty7.jpg 466 700 [] https://torontolife.com/style/interior-design-show-2012-flos-and-lightform-party/slide/jan12idsparty7/ jan12idsparty7 0 0
114849 This is what Flos and LightForm refer to as bare bones (Image: Simone Olivero) Flos/LightForm party https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty6-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty6.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty6.jpg 466 700 [] https://torontolife.com/style/interior-design-show-2012-flos-and-lightform-party/slide/jan12idsparty6/ jan12idsparty6 0 0
114850 No one was in the dark at this party (Image: Simone Olivero) Flos/LightForm party https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty5-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty5.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty5.jpg 466 700 [] https://torontolife.com/style/interior-design-show-2012-flos-and-lightform-party/slide/jan12idsparty5/ jan12idsparty5 0 0
114851 Bright lights, big city (Image: Simone Olivero) Flos/LightForm party https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty4-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty4.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty4.jpg 466 700 [] https://torontolife.com/style/interior-design-show-2012-flos-and-lightform-party/slide/jan12idsparty4/ jan12idsparty4 0 0
114852 Discussing lights as though they were art (Image: Simone Olivero) Flos/LightForm party https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty3-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty3.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty3.jpg 466 700 [] https://torontolife.com/style/interior-design-show-2012-flos-and-lightform-party/slide/jan12idsparty3/ jan12idsparty3 0 0
114854 Bright young things (Image: Simone Olivero) Flos/LightForm party https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty1-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty1.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jan12IDSparty1.jpg 624 414 [] https://torontolife.com/style/interior-design-show-2012-flos-and-lightform-party/slide/jan12idsparty1/ jan12idsparty1 0 0
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