With Emi, Erwan Bouroullec bring the quality of professional lighting to home and hospitality environments

«The Emi light is a new lighting expression that combines several invisible sources to create a paradoxical experience: light from shadow. We really like the intriguing contrast of the Emi light, which combines a deep, dark matte body that appears to be a void with powerful invisible sources that provide efficient and effective illumination to both the ceiling and the floor. Emi is a silhouette made of shadow that provides light».

The Emi collection by Flos stems from Erwan Bouroullec‘s ambition to bring technology and quality from the professional world into lighting for domestic and hospitality settings. In this case, Flos’ proprietary technology gives birth to a programme of luminaires with compact dimensions equipped with a patented anti-glare optical unit. The collection design originated from grouping three light modules inside linear and compact extrusions, with a triangular section joined at the top.

«We have constructed Emi around Flos’ Light Shadow optical concept», explains Erwan Bouroullec. «The light modules inform the light’s triangular nature, which is reflected throughout its design. The main section, the pole, and the stands all share this shape, creating a cohesive and visually balanced structure. We found it interesting to replace the usual logic of rectangular geometry with a purely triangular approach. Triangles offer many structural qualities with the minimum use of materials, and they reinvent usual geometry, playing with perspective in a special manner».

Emi is constructed primarily with metals, with the light’s base in moulded steel, the pole and main body in aluminum. Polymers are used in the top and bottom sections. Great efforts were made to reduce all surfaces and thicknesses to the minimum, throughout the whole collection. The light provided by Emi is very powerful but at the same time gentle, conceived to be reflective.

Declined in four versions – ceiling suspended, ceiling mounted, floor and table – Emi speaks the language of sophisticated technology while interpreting professional lighting in a poetic way, adapting it to contemporary living.

Sustainability and future proof design

The advanced technology of Emi goes hand in hand with its sustainable design. Emi’s body is mainly realized in aluminum (partially recycled and totally recyclable). All surfaces and thicknesses have been reduced to the minimum to optimize material consumption. For the goal of durability, Emi is designed to last over time. All light units can be individually replaced for maintenance, while the lack of glues and weldings allows for easy disassembly and correct disposal of all parts at the end of its life.

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