Michael Anastassiades is a brand that specializes in the design and production of high-quality, designer lamps and objects. The brand was founded in 2007 on the initiative of Cypriot designer, transplanted to London, Michael Anastassiades, who already owned a design studio since 1994. The brand debuted at the Maison&Objet fair in Paris, where, many years later, it would receive the 2020 “designer of the year” award. Its rigorous design, characterized by refined simplicity, is the key to a planetary success that opens the door to prestigious collaborations, both with companies of the caliber of B&B Italia, Flos, Cassina, and Bang & Olufsen, to name but a few, and with organizations and institutions for the creation of lighting projects and installations. Three examples out of all, the lighting of the Four Seasons restaurant in New York, a public project on Mint Street in London, and a water fountain for the Victoria & Albert Museum. Critically acclaimed, he collects numerous awards and honors over the years, among which we can mention the Archiproducts Design Award 2019 and 2022, the ADI Compasso d'Oro 2020 and IF Design Award 2021. Michael Anastassiades products are somewhere between a work of art and an industrial product, by virtue of suggestions drawn from the world of art combined with a handcrafted and technological approach. The minimalist style is based on the combination of simple geometric forms and purged lines, enhanced by the choice of refined materials. Anastassiades' work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Craft Council in London, the FRAC Centre in Orleans, France, and the MAK in Vienna, while limited edition designs have been featured in numerous solo exhibitions.
Michael Anastassiades floor lamps, sculptures of light
As the designer himself recounts, his designs are born out of a search for originality, using new technologies in a poetic way. Perhaps this is the secret that makes Michael Anastassiades' signature lamps unique objects, more like a work of art than a light fixture. Just take a look at the floor lamps in the catalog to discover true sculptures of light. The Relay 1 floor lamp consists of a Carrara marble parallelepiped and an opaline borosilicate glass tube that stands out like a luminous graphic line. Turning on the luminous body is provided by an invisible magnetic connection built into the base, and is done by a simple touch. The Relay 1.6 version features a light tube that adds a portion of about 60 cm to the 100 cm portion of the parent. The base is also available in black Marquina, Gré strain and basalt versions. The TA-KE 3 lamp stems from the limited series of lamp-sculptures exhibited in an installation at the ICA Foundation in Milan in 2021. From the circle-shaped base, made of black-painted steel, sprout as in a tropical garden three bamboo rods, to which the light tube is attached, placed strictly in the center. The system that supports the bulb is ingenious, and consists of thin black wire cables, so that it appears to float in the air.
Michael Anastassiades pendant and table lamps
The Michael Anastassiades catalog offers a series of pendant lamps and table lamps animated by the same poetic inspiration. An elongated, strictly white cone is the designer's chosen element for the Peaks family of pendant lamps. It starts with single light-body models, namely Peak Down, facing downward, and Peak Up, with the cone inverted and oriented upward. Both models are declined in versions with two or three cones, joined one on the base of the other to form a geometric chain. An inverted cone acts as a rosette, forming a mirror recall of the diffusers. The Blue skies table lamp is inspired by Japanese aesthetics to poetically decline the theme of moon phases. The star is represented by a disc made of Tosa-Washi paper, attached to a thin Hinoki wood frame, which in turn is hooked to the base, a silver cylinder, through a rod, also made of Hinoki wood. The light body inserted into the base projects a gentle beam of light onto the disc, which spreads an ethereal glow around the lamp. The iconic Mobile Chandelier collection of pendant lamps consists of structures linked together in a delicate balance thanks to weights and counterweights. The luminous bodies are represented by opaline blown glass spheres set in thin black painted metal rods with an organic shape. The chandelier rotates on itself, giving rise to ever-changing light configurations. The collection is declined in countless models, both for the range with the structure with organic shapes and for the curved and straight ones, also available in floor versions, all capable of creating infinite geometric compositions.
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