Back to Milan
With a highly personal exhibition in a Milanese palazzo, as well as a presence in the Salone del Mobile in Milan, Michael Anastassiades is showing his range as a designer of both the individual and the mass-produced
- Words Deyan Sudjic
- Photography Jack Johnstone
When Michael Anastassiades made the pilgrimage to meet Bruno Danese and Jacqueline Vodoz in Milan in 1995, he was still at the beginning of his career as a designer, just two years out of the Royal College of Art in London. After four decades working with most of the people who made Italian design famous in the 1960s, they had recently sold their company, Danese Milano. They manufactured a collection of apparently humble everyday objects – paper trays, candle holders, water pitchers and ashtrays, which when you looked closely, turned out to be anything but humble. There were ceramics by Angelo Mangiarotti, glasses by Achille Castiglioni, candle holders and lamps by Bruno Munari, desk
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