What I love about Milan is the seemingly endless number of light shops sprinkled throughout the city. This past week we had the opportunity to visit both Flos and Fontana Art, which both had a wonderful display of lamps that featured some work from Artemide. As soon as we entered Flos, I recognized the amazing display of lights from Artemide, which in essence was this beautiful chandelier structure featuring what appears to be butterflies cascading down and emitting light.
In Flos, we saw a multitude of very modern and contemporary light fixtures. One of my favorite pieces was one lamp which not only functioned as a lamp but as an iPhone charger as well. However, personally I must say I definitely preferred the pieces in Fontana Art, seeing as they were less contemporary and played an interesting twist on antique styles of chandeliers. Another piece that stood out to me was this ceiling light which doubled as a way to hold glasses – this I did a rough sketch of in my notebook as you can see from the above photo. Overall, I really enjoyed getting to visit and see many of the Artemide lamps in reality through the stores that sell them.