Michael anastassiades

Inspired by an ancient lunar theory, the Blue Skies lamp features a silver base and a Hinoki wood and paper shade. It reflects light upward, creating a serene, glowing disc that captures and balances light.

Named “Designer of the Year” at the Maison&Objet show, Michael Anastassiades agreed to offer candid answers to our questionnaire about his inspirations. It was an ideal occasion to learn a little more about a designer with a flair for spectacular minimalism.

Cone Light is a small wall and ceiling sconce with a geometric postmodern reference.

White Porcelain Series is a lighting collection comprising of sconces with an emphasis on materiality and simplicity of form. It is distinguished by refined proportions and sophisticated, invisible fixture details that reintroduce porcelain within a contemporary context and distances it from the utilitarian language with which it is often associated. Referring to the Bauhaus porcelain lights used in the 1930s, this simplified version is slip casted to provide a tough, resistant finish. Due…

Archiproducts on Instagram: "Archiproducts meets @studiomichaelanastassiades x @glasitalia The first collection of Glas Italia designed by Michael Anastassiades is a tribute to the artist Kazimir Severinovič Malevič and his geometric abstractionism. Malevich claimed that the only possible artistic language was total abstraction, based on elementary geometric shapes and essential colours. Anastassiades draws on this concept to create a series in wich each piece is a composition of…

This collection of fixtures uses the standard unit of the light tube as a measure. Through the alternation of 1m and 0.5m modules, it creates a rhythmic language of recording space. The designs evolve as a parallel progression of rods, combining five variations of standard linear LED bulbs and metal tubes of the same diameter. With this series, Michael Anastassiades expands the compositional possibilities of some of the most structural elements of lighting, engaging the viewer in a rigorous…

Michael Anastassiades has debuted his first range of furniture for Herman Miller with an installation themed around a 1915 painting

Michael Anastassiades talks to us about the expansion of his minimalist lighting designs for FLOS.

<span>At Fondazione ICA Milan the Cypriot designer exhibits his personal collection of stones and a new series of self-produced lamps.</span>