To-Tie is the Flos lamp designed by Guglielmo Poletti with a design and aesthetic transparency reminiscent of the ready-mades of the Castiglioni brothers. A celebration of essentiality, simplicity and rigour that generate poetry, giving life to a design that is both spontaneous and sophisticated, in the best Flos tradition. To-Tie (from the English legare, to bind, to fix) is a new table lamp composed of a series of elements reduced to the bare minimum and held together by mechanical tension alone, without screws, glue or soldering.
“To-Tie is a collection of table lamps with a distinctive feature: the construction of the lamp is created by relating three simple elements: cable, bar and cylinder,” says Guglielmo Poletti. “The key to the design lies in the tensioning system, which outlines both the formal and functional qualities of the lamp, uniting them in a mutual bond. Thanks to the stimulating collaboration with Flos and the company’s unique know-how, my personal research on the theme of structural tension has been successfully translated into an industrial lighting fixture for the first time.”
To-Tie, thus stems from Guglielmo Poletti’s personal research on the topic of structural tension, which, thanks to the stimulating collaboration with Flos and the company’s unique know-how, has been successfully translated into an industrial product for the first time. The ingenious structure of To-Tie allows each component to fulfil multiple functions. The light source is integrated in an anodised aluminium bar that not only emits light, but also acts as a handle to lift the lamp. Similarly, the fabric electrical cable not only supplies power to the bar, but also allows the latter to be attached to the borosilicate glass cylinder, whose extreme clarity highlights the geometric composition of the joint.
Attention to detail and the refinement of each component make To-Tie a precious object: the borosilicate glass has a high degree of transparency, and is hand-finished around the entire perimeter of the edge; the fabric cable forms a harmonious as well as functional knot, and is blocked by cable clips made to a specific design; the anodised aluminium bar has a special knurling that avoids leaving marks on it, and is also echoed in the specially customised switch control.
The collection is made up of three different lamps, differentiated in size and proportions according to the context for which each is intended: the smallest can be used as a light next to the bed, the tallest will fit on a console table, while the largest can be placed on the low table of a living room environment. The peculiar configuration of the structure gives the lamps an autonomous presence in the space, even when they are switched off. The screw- and glue-free assembly method allows the lamps to be easily dismantled for replacement or proper disposal of components, facilitating the recycling process at the end of the product’s life.
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