Things That Go Together by Michael Anastassiades
Things That Go Together by Michael Anastassiades
Things That Go Together by Michael Anastassiades
Things That Go Together by Michael Anastassiades
Things That Go Together by Michael Anastassiades
Things That Go Together by Michael Anastassiades
Things That Go Together by Michael Anastassiades
Things That Go Together by Michael Anastassiades

Things That Go Together

By Michael Anastassiades
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First published in 2019, this book celebrates designer Michael Anastassiades, exploring his design approach, nature's influence, and the connection between objects and meaning.

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Overview

Things That Go Together

Originally published in 2019, this was the first book to celebrate the work of acclaimed designer Michael Anastassiades and takes an exhibition held earlier that year as a starting point for exploring his approach to design. There, carefully laid out displays—things that Michael had unearthed in nature or sourced from his own collections—formed a constellation of objects and a syntax of ‘things that go together’. This book might be considered yet one more layer in this universe of objects and meaning.

Together with photos of the exhibition, a collection of essays reflects on Anastassiades’s early years in Cyprus, the influence of its natural environment and local artistic figures, his interest in exploring the psychological connection that humans share with the objects around them, and his appreciation of form and scale, but also unpredictability, in nature and design.

Texts by Alessandro Rabottini, Elena Parpa, Emily King, Mario García Torres, Michael Anastassiades, Yiannis Toumazis, and Zoë Ryan. Text editor: Alessandro Rabottini. Photography by Osma Harvilahti.

Pages

132

Language
  • ENG- English
Publisher

Apartamento

Format
  • Softcover
Size

9.6 x 11.8 inches

ISBN

978-8409524228

About the author

Michael Anastassiades

Michael Anastassiades is a Cypriot-born, London-based designer whose practice encompasses product, spatial interventions and experimental works, often transcending the distinctions between different fields of creativity.

Anastassiades’ practice contemplates both industrial production and artisan techniques. In doing so, it expands into a vivid, nuanced balance between improvisation and structure, control and intuition. With a career spanning more than 20 years, Anastassiades has conceived lights, furniture and objects characterised by a poetic yet rigorous interpretation of technology, materials and functions. His work draws inspiration from many sources, which he distills into pure, simple structures. From nature to archaic references of his native Cyprus, the history of Modernism, very personal memories, art and everyday life, he transforms a rich set of diverse references into a timeless vocabulary of form and structure.

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