Michael Anastassiades

His approach is founded on preserving the inherent qualities of materials by exploiting both industrial production and artisanal techniques to obtain new creative balances.

Cypriot-born yet London-based designer Michael Anastassiades joined the Mutina team in 2023. In a career of more than 20 years, he conceived lights, furniture, and objects for companies such as 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. His work is featured in permanent collections at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the MAK in Vienna, the Crafts Council in London, the FRAC Centre in France and The Saint Louis Art Museum.

Michael Anastassiades’ practice encompasses product, spatial interventions and experimental works, often transcending the distinctions between different fields of creativity. His practice is characterised by a poetic yet rigorous interpretation of technology, materials and functions, drawing inspiration from different sources such as nature and archaic references to Cyprus, art and the history of modernism, personal memories and everyday life.

Michael Anastassiades designed the range Fringe.