The Story Behind Flamingo with Antoni Arola

How did you come to design Flamingo?

My approach is always about doing something that will last longer than a simple trend, something timeless. In this case, the challenge to me was to create an atmospheric light using traditional screens, but with an LED light source. LED is a hard and aggressive source, and you need to be quite careful to avoid excessive concentration of light.

The solution was to project the light from a distance, instead of wrapping the screen with the source. Incidentally, it came to life with through a multitude of variations, the possibilities of screen combinations were endless.

Why “Flamingo”?

Flamingo is a bird with long legs, delicate, elegant and very particular. Flamingo lamp matches many of the same characteristics of the bird.

What is your favorite thing to design?

Once when I was in school, in arts and crafts I was making a kind of head from pipes and colored translucent paper.

I went home and put a light bulb inside, making it a lamp. Over the years, light has won me.