Flos lights up the grandiose rooms of Casa Italia Paris 2024, illuminating art and objects housed in a Napoleon III-style building. Located in the bucolic Bois de Boulogne (the largest park in Paris), Italy’s house showcases the country’s rich design history—including spectacular lighting by some of the world’s best designers. Here are some Flos favorites shining a light inside Casa Italia.

Taraxacum by Achille Castiglioni

An extraterrestrial sphere of silver triangles and globe bulbs, Taraxacum is supposed to evoke “the bloom of a dandelion.” However, I put it squarely in the genre of Space-Age exploration. I know the iconic pendant is not in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey—but my brain will go on populating the movie’s set designs with Taraxacum.

Zeppelin 1 by Marcel Wanders

Zeppelin 1 is made for anyone who adores Gothic novels.

Staircases bathed in penumbral light, chandeliers covered in ethereal cobwebs, castles overgrown with serpentine vines—these are the ideal sets for Marcel Wanders’ creation.

Glo-Ball Floor Lamp by Jasper Morrison

Glo-Ball is a shapely tribute to form. With a slender stem and globose orb, this floor lamp recalls a full moon at night. A warm diffused light gives it a calm aura. Flos explains, “Jasper Morrison created the Glo-Ball series to illuminate the otherworldly magic of the night.”

Bellhop Floor by Barber Osgerby

Arrangements by Michael Anastassiades

Another excellent complement to the ornate interiors of Italy Country House, Bellhop is a lovely vertical luminaire who always looks ready to help. This “eccentric up-lit floor lamp” combines painted glass, aluminum, and eco-friendly concrete.

The slender hanging forms of Arrangements light up grand spaces in Casa Italia without taking up too much mass.

Anastassiades makes pendants look like fine jewelry, forever in the act of balancing.