"From biology to architecture and engineering, a survey of the hexagon's history boasts exceptional strength, material efficiency, and iconic forms among its many accolades. Italian high-end lighting company FLOS adds to the shape's storied experiences with their expansive SuperWire family of modular lamps designed by research-based design studio Formafantasma, founded by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin. Almost alchemical when illuminated, SuperWire transforms glass and metal into something exceptionally ethereal."
"But at the crux of this collection lies the radical rethinking of the LED filament. What's typically hidden inside a bulb, then behind a shade or within a globe, is here elevated as the design's physical expression. The hardware, developed in close collaboration with the FLOS Research & Development team, is SuperWire's custom light source. A thin, flexible LED filament stretches up to one meter emitting a warm, homogeneous glow along its entire length."
SuperWire centers on a hexagonal module formed by six sheets of industrial planar glass joined at top and base by polished aluminum plates with exposed steel screws. Cylindrical diffusers inside each glass plane house luminous filaments that allow light to exit 360 degrees, causing the glass to shift from transparent structure to radiant vessel that captures and softens light. The collection elevates the LED filament as the design's physical expression through a custom, thin flexible filament that stretches up to one meter and emits a warm, homogeneous glow, producing bulb-less lamps where light radiates evenly across the glass surface and dissolves the boundary between object and illumination.
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