First up, Flos. Let’s talk about track lighting. How do you make a pretty pedestrian and often maligned source of overhead illumination exciting? Walking into the Italian lighting giant’s showroom, that wasn't clear. In the center of the space, a stage was set up with props like a neutral-colored kitchen table and bookshelves, while dancers wearing monochrome workwear pantomimed various domestic scenes—reading, doing yoga, taking a polaroid of a friend—in slow motion. Someone watching pointed up, and sure enough, track lighting. Exciting track lighting. The prolific London designer Michael Anastassiades’s latest for Flos is a system of tracks from which you can hang a set of five pendant fixtures designed to be moved around a space depending on how you want to use them. The idea is to make open-plan areas more defined for when you’re, say, doing a headstand as one dancer demonstrated, or working from home, without compromising on flexibility. Just scoot a light along when you’re on to the next activity. Photo 22 of 71 in It’s Furniture Design’s Big Week. Here’s What We Saw During Salone del Mobile

It’s Furniture Design’s Big Week. Here’s What We Saw During Salone del Mobile

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First up, Flos. Let’s talk about track lighting. How do you make a pretty pedestrian and often maligned source of overhead illumination exciting? Walking into the Italian lighting giant’s showroom, it wasn't clear. In the center of the space, a stage was set up with props like a neutral-colored kitchen table and bookshelves, while dancers wearing monochrome workwear pantomimed various domestic scenes—reading, doing yoga, taking a polaroid of a friend—in slow motion. Someone watching pointed up, and sure enough, track lighting. Exciting track lighting. The prolific London designer Michael Anastassiades’s latest for Flos is a system of tracks from which you can hang a set of five pendant fixtures designed to be moved around a space depending on how you want to use them. The idea is to make open-plan areas more defined for when you’re, say, doing a headstand as one dancer demonstrated, or working from home, without compromising on flexibility. Just scoot a light along when you’re on to the next activity.