SuperWire Floor Lamp

Most glass floor lamps start as a single blown or bent form, which is why they glow like a lantern from one obvious point. SuperWire does the opposite: it is assembled, edge to edge, out of flat sheet.

Flos's SuperWire F is built from stacked hexagonal modules of planar glass, joined at their edges by polished aluminium rather than shaped into one curve. Flat sheet is cheaper and more precise to cut to a consistent edge than curved glass, and because every edge is straight, the aluminium joints sit flush at each seam instead of wrapping around a bend. Stacking six-sided modules this way pushes light sideways through the glass edges, so the fixture reads as machined rather than moulded, closer to a stack of glass blocks than a conventional shade. Formafantasma designed the family in 2024.

Inside, a 56-watt LED filament runs at 2700 kelvin, a warm white, dimmed through a driver housed in the steel tripod base. Flos designed that driver to be swapped by the owner rather than a technician, so when the diode eventually dims with age nothing has to be sent back to Italy. The lamp stands 221.7 centimetres tall and is rated IP20, which means indoor rooms only: even a covered porch puts damp air within reach of the electronics, and this is a lamp built on the assumption that you will keep it long enough to replace parts of it.