Michael Anastassiades
The studio has designed products with various manufacturers, including Flos, B&B Italia, Herman Miller, Cassina, Molteni, Bang & Olufsen, Puiforcat, Fratelli Fantini, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Roda, Lobmeyr, Salvatori, Svenskt Tenn, Carl Auböck and Sigmar London, Coedition and SCP. The Studio has also designed limited-edition collections for Nilufar Gallery in Milan, Dansk Møbelkunst Gallery in Copenhagen, and Taka Ishii Gallery in Japan.
THE BRAND
Michael Anastassiades is a London-based company specialising in the design and manufacturing of high-quality lighting and objects. Established in 2007, it was founded to increase the availability of Michael’s signature pieces.
Michael Anastassiades
The Composition series includes a floor and table lamp. They consist of sculptural, elementary forms stacked to create simple, balanced compositions. Each fixture is formed of two cylindrical legs balancing a circular disk, with the Floor Composition grounded by a solid sphere. Illumination is through a bespoke LED circuit with a perspex diffuser, which softly distributes the light downward. Both Floor Composition and Table Composition are produced in an earthen red, powder-coated finish based on a brass patina developed specially by the Studio.
Michael Anastassiades
One of the most recognisable designs by Michael Anastassiades Studio, the Ball Lights consists of pendants, wall pendants and ceiling and wall sconces. Designed around existing incandescent bulbs of that time, the project began as an exercise to abstract the bulb into a perfectly spherical ball, celebrating its perfect shape by repeating it in metal.
Michael Anastassiades
One of the most recognisable designs by Michael Anastassiades Studio, the Ball Lights consists of pendants, wall pendants and ceiling and wall sconces. Designed around existing incandescent bulbs of that time, the project began as an exercise to abstract the bulb into a perfectly spherical ball, celebrating its perfect shape by repeating it in metal.
Michael Anastassiades
One of the most recognisable designs by Michael Anastassiades Studio, the Ball Lights consists of pendants, wall pendants and ceiling and wall sconces. Designed around existing incandescent bulbs of that time, the project began as an exercise to abstract the bulb into a perfectly spherical ball, celebrating its perfect shape by repeating it in metal.
Michael Anastassiades
The result of a carefully curated take on an existing series of products, the Brass Architectural collection brings together the simplicity and elegance that characterises Michael Anastassiades’ aesthetic. Through a formal economy of shapes and materials, these architectural features call for an understanding of luxury as a discreet presence: glass, brass and nickel articulate a geometric, minimalistic alphabet of forms that adorn the space with luminosity akin to a piece of jewellery.
Michael Anastassiades
The Mobile Chandeliers are delicate structures balanced in perfect equilibrium. Constructed following the principles of a mobile, these are arrangements of linear tubes, geometric light sources, reflective surfaces and counterbalancing weights. The pieces rotate freely and delicately, creating an ever-changing lighting configuration unique to the space they occupy. Each Mobile Chandelier is individually tailored to ensure the balance of its approximately 200 hand-crafted patinated-brass components. Every piece is unique in its dimension and compositional balance, due to the varying weight of the mouth-blown opaline glass.
Michael Anastassiades
Bob is an inverted tear drop resembling a weight suspended from a string, which is often used as a vertical reference line; a tool for building and measurements. Instead, this is a simple pendant that hangs to illuminate a space. Bob is a family of pendants and wall or ceiling-mounted sconces.
Michael Anastassiades
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 to the manufacturing process, each piece is inherently unique.
Michael Anastassiades
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 to the manufacturing process, each piece is inherently unique.
Michael Anastassiades
The Philosophical Egg was realised as an homage to the mysterious pendant that appears in the famous altar painting Brera Madonna by Piero della Francesca. The various fixtures featured reflect the same architectural approach that the artist represents in the painting. The refined composition of primordial shapes with an illuminated ostrich-egg-shaped oval allows the light to become the central focus of the space. The collection comprises various pendants and sconces and features a new petrol blue powder-coated finish.
Michael Anastassiades
The result of a carefully curated take on an existing series of products, the Brass Architectural collection brings together the simplicity and elegance that characterises Michael Anastassiades’ aesthetic. Through a formal economy of shapes and materials, these architectural features call for an understanding of luxury as a discreet presence: glass, brass and nickel articulate a geometric, minimalistic alphabet of forms that adorn the space with luminosity akin to a piece of jewellery.
Michael Anastassiades
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 to the manufacturing process, each piece is inherently unique.
Michael Anastassiades
The result of a carefully curated take on an existing series of products, the Brass Architectural collection brings together the simplicity and elegance that characterises Michael Anastassiades’ aesthetic. Through a formal economy of shapes and materials, these architectural features call for an understanding of luxury as a discreet presence: glass, brass and nickel articulate a geometric, minimalistic alphabet of forms that adorn the space with luminosity akin to a piece of jewellery.
Michael Anastassiades
The Philosophical Egg was realised as an homage to the mysterious pendant that appears in the famous altar painting Brera Madonna by Piero della Francesca. The various fixtures featured reflect the same architectural approach that the artist represents in the painting. The refined composition of primordial shapes with an illuminated ostrich-egg-shaped oval allows the light to become the central focus of the space. The collection comprises various pendants and sconces and features a new petrol blue powder-coated finish.
Michael Anastassiades
One of the most recognisable designs by Michael Anastassiades Studio, the Ball Lights consists of pendants, wall pendants and ceiling and wall sconces. Designed around existing incandescent bulbs of that time, the project began as an exercise to abstract the bulb into a perfectly spherical ball, celebrating its perfect shape by repeating it in metal.
Michael Anastassiades
Tip of the Tongue consists of table lamp, wall lamp and ceiling-mounted sconce, all which feature an interesting illusion: a luminous mouth-blown opaline sphere appears to roll down the edge of a solid polished brass base. This delicate gesture of a sphere poised on the edge of the surface evokes the familiar phenomenon of failing to retrieve a word from memory, expressing a moment of tension in the form of the design. Tip of the Tongue was launched at Euroluce in Milan in 2013. It has gone on to become one of Michael Anastassiades’ most iconic pieces
