Michael Anastassiades is a Cypriot-born, London-based designer whose practice encompasses product, spatial interventions and experimental works, often transcending the distinctions between different fields of creativity. In doing so, it expands into a vivid, nuanced balance between improvisation and structure, control and intuition. With a career spanning more than 20 years, Anastassiades has conc
eived lights, furniture and objects characterised by a poetic yet rigorous interpretation of technology, materials and functions. His work draws inspiration from many sources, which he distills into pure, simple structures. From nature to archaic references of his native Cyprus, the history of Modernism, very personal memories, art and everyday life, he transforms a rich set of diverse references into a timeless vocabulary of form and structure. Michael Anastassiades’ design philosophy is to preserve the inherent qualities of the materials he uses. All of the products we make in the studio are artisanally made and come in natural finishes, exposed to the elements without any protective lacquers. We see oxidation as a process that only adds to the patina of an object, making it more beautiful over time.
