Patricia Urquiola with a piece of the Tatou shade in hands. Most design pieces by Patricia Urquiola are a beautiful fusion - between East and West, modern and ancient, art and crafts. No exception, Tatou is a new family of lamps she designed for Flos on the occasion of the 2012 London Design Festival. A close detail of Flos Tatou Table Lamp Initially, Urquiola was inspired by the architecture of an antique Samurai armour - a set of metal rings cleverly tied with ribbons. Samurai means warrior in Japanese, so the initial concept aimed to represent resistance and strength along with lightness and dynamism. It was a reference to the protective shell. “I was looking at modules of metal crossed with fiber and making a really powerful and emotional suspension lamp.” Patricia Urquiola's 'Tatou' collection of lamps has its UK launch at FLOS, Clerkenwell Photography: Sabine Zetteler The studies for Tatou's modular plates began with wood and metal - Urquiola firs...