Design Holding

Design Holding S.p.A. is the largest global high-quality design group with strong individual identities and European heritage. As a leading player in the high-end design market, Design Holding gathers prestigious brands such as Flos, Louis Poulsen and B&B Italia and controls International Design Group SpA. The premise of passion and research is the ideal strategic foundation for the development of Design Holding.

Flos is an Italian lighting pioneer, known in the decorative and architectural segments around the world for its iconic designs and technological innovation. In Flos, you can’t find a uniform design model, but rather a strong desire to make design that can express broader meanings of the ‘sense of our time,’ meanings that are often capable of adding cultural values even to expressions of taste. Starting with Artur Eisenkeil’s cocoon material, a special technique that has remained unchanged until today, and iconic designs like the Arco and Taccia lamps designed by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Flos immediately gained—and has maintained—a reputation for manufacturing masterfully poetic designs and forward-thinking inventions. With this exceptionally rich legacy propelling the brand forward, Flos continues to push boundaries and make timeless, ethereal icons, linking design and engineering with art and culture to profound effect.

Since its foundation in 1962, Flos’s products have been recognized through numerous international design awards and several pieces have become collection items for some of the world’s leading art and design museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, Les Arts Décoratifs and Le Centre Pompidou in Paris and many others. The company’s longstanding relationships with world-renowned designers such as the Castiglioni brothers, Philippe Starck, Antonio Citterio, Piero Lissoni, Patricia Urquiola, the Bouroullec brothers, Ron Gilad and many others is a unique feature of the company.

Louis Poulsen is a leading lighting brand with an iconic product portfolio focused on Danish design heritage, with headquarters in Copenhagen and production facilities in Vejen (Denmark), that offers a high-end product range for both indoor and outdoor applications. Louis Poulsen believes in passionate craftsmanship that produces quality lighting and design products that are pleasing to the eye and to the light. In close partnership with designers, architects and other talents like Poul Henningsen, Arne Jacobsen, Verner Panton, Øivind Slaatto, Alfred Homann, Oki Sato and GamFratesi, Louis Poulsen is established as one of the key global suppliers of architectural and decorative lighting across the professional and private lighting markets for both indoor and outdoor applications.

Louis Poulsen combines iconic designs stemming from the work of golden age Danish designers, such as Poul Henningsen, Arne Jacobsen, Finn Juhl and Verner Panton, and collaborations with leading modern designers such as Christian Flindt, Shoichi Uchiyama and Louise Campbell. The Company has a global distribution network with more than 50 countries served and dedicated showrooms in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Miami, Helsinki, Vejen, Oslo, Los Angeles, Singapore, Tokyo and Dusseldorf.