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Bottega Veneta x FLOS is a collaboration nearly six decades in the making: Two Italian companies, one of which (Bottega) was founded the same year that designer Gino Sarfatti created FLOS' original Model 600 lamp. Can it really be mere coincidence?

Well, now, it's reality.

Bottega Veneta has transformed FLOS' Model 600 lamp into an exquisitely artful statement piece that allows the beauty of BV to really light up a room (more than it already does, of course).

Here, the luxury house tastefully reinvented a classic FLOS shape as only it can.

Envisioned by prolific deigner Sarfatti as an inventive blend of metal and leather, the gently voluptuous form of FLOS' Model 600 — an out-of-production table lamp from 1966 that only occasionally surfaces secondhand — is intact but updated.

Specifically, the device's plush calfskin base is now shaped from Bottega Veneta's signature woven Intrecciato leather, unstitched both in its classic smooth and textured Foulard iterations.

The latter, as Bottega Veneta noted in a press release, has become a signature of the Matthieu Blazy era, utilized for creations as classic as handbags and charmingly outré as paperweights. Under Blazy's purview, Bottega Veneta's emphasis on Intrecciato has yielded some terribly memorable leather creations, enhancing otherwise timeless staples as a tangible mission statement for the house's fixation on craft.

The Intrecciato edition of FLOS' Model 600, available in two sizes and a handful of colors from November 20 on Bottega Veneta's website, only upholds that conceit.

It also reiterates another unspoken core tenet of contemporary BV: Italian excellence.

Besides FLOS, Bottega Veneta has let its Italian roots lead prior collaborations with late artist Gaetano Pesce and various local businesses for its "Bottega for Bottegas" series.

Now that's amore.

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