أشياء تتناسب معًا

نُشر هذا الكتاب لأول مرة في عام 2019، وكان أول كتاب يحتفي بأعمال المصمم الشهير مايكل أناستاسيادس، ويتخذ من معرض أقيم في وقت سابق من ذلك العام نقطة انطلاق لاستكشاف منهجه في التصميم. هناك، شكلت المعروضات المرتبة بعناية - أشياء اكتشفها مايكل في الطبيعة أو اقتناها من مجموعاته الخاصة - كوكبة من الأشياء وبنية من

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.

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Things That Go Together

Author

Publisher

Apartamento

Format

Softcover

Pages

132

Size

9.6 x 11.8 inches

ISBN

978-8409524228

About the author

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.