Ronan Bouroullec has designed two new modular suspension lamps for Flos, Luce Sferica and Luce Cilindrica, released in 2025. These projects aim to merge the poetic beauty of a handcrafted product with an industrial, functional spirit. The design strives to achieve magic and refinement through technical sophistication, acting as an ode to the beauty of the simplest things in life.
Luce Sferica seeks delicacy, evoking images like “raindrops clinging to a thread or a soap bubble blown by a child”. The result is a luminous body that is light, delicate, ethereal, and quietly magical. The lamp features a highly technical horizontal body in polished extruded aluminum, which houses two LED strips designed for both upward and downward light emission. At one end, an innovative touch dimmer allows users to select and dim each output (upward or downward) independently. Encasing this technical axis are light, transparent glass spheres, approximately 180 mm (or ∅200mm) in diameter. These spheres are crafted using the refined, centuries-old technique of mouth-blown glass. Luce Sferica is a modular lamp available in three lengths: S1 (1.65 m, 8 spheres), S2 (2.7 m, 10 spheres), and S3 (2.5 m, 12 spheres). It emits diffused light that is simultaneously efficient, delicate, and gentle (LED 2700 K, CRI 95). It is ideal for illuminating large tables in private homes, hospitality settings, and museum spaces, creating a scenographic, almost magical effect when installed in multiple parallel rows.
Luce Cilindrica is a complementary variant that shares the same refined magic and identical technology as Luce Sferica. This design originates from the Luce Orizzontale project, which Bouroullec initially designed for the entrance of the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Foundation, in relation to Tadao Ando’s architectural project. Instead of spheres, Luce Cilindrica is composed of ethereal modules with a cylindrical geometry. This new proposal provides an “almost unreal delicacy of glass elements, a presence that is almost magical, on the brink of disappearance”. To ensure maximum transparency, lightness, and resistance, Luce Cilindrica uses borosilicate glass elements, contrasting with the solid cast glass used in the original Luce Orizzontale project. Luce Cilindrica is also available in the same dimensions (S1, S2, S3) and shares the same light source specifications (e.g., S1: LED 110 W, 5345 lm).
Both projects fully express Ronan Bouroullec’s poetic sensibility and aesthetic research.
