Michael Anastassiades

Michael Anastassiades is a Cypriot-born, London-based designer whose practice moves between product design, spatial interventions and experimental works, often dissolving the lines between disciplines. Trained as a civil engineer at Imperial College before a master’s in industrial design at the Royal College of Art, he founded his studio in London in 1994.

His lights, furniture and objects read as a poetic but rigorous interpretation of technology, material and function, distilled from nature, archaic references to Cyprus, Modernism and everyday life into simple structures. Work is held by MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the V&A and the MAK, and the studio has collaborated with Flos, B&B Italia, Herman Miller, Cassina, Bang & Olufsen and Alessi. He is a Royal Designer for Industry.