Anastassiades’ practice reflects a deep engagement with both industrial production and artisan techniques. Through this approach, he achieves a delicate balance between improvisation and structure, control and intuition. With a career spanning over 20 years, he has crafted lights, furniture, and objects that embody a poetic yet precise interpretation of technology, materials, and function. Drawing inspiration from nature, the ancient traditions of his native Cyprus, Modernist history, personal memories, art, and everyday life, Anastassiades distils these diverse influences into a timeless vocabulary of form and structure.

In 1994, Anastassiades established his studio in London. He studied civil engineering at Imperial College London before completing a master’s degree in industrial design at the Royal College of Art. His work is featured in the permanent collections of 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 Orléans, France, and the Saint Louis Art Museum. Recent solo exhibitions include Reload the Current Page at Point Centre for Contemporary Arts in Nicosia and Time and Again at the Geymüllerschlössel MAK in Vienna.

Anastassiades is a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) at the Royal Society of Arts. He also participates in educational programmes at international institutions such as Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and ECAL in Lausanne.

The Michael Anastassiades Studio has collaborated with renowned manufacturers, including Flos, B&B Italia, Herman Miller, Cassina, Molteni, Bang & Olufsen, Puiforcat, Fratelli Fantini, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Roda, Lobmeyr, Salvatori, Svenskt Tenn, Carl Auböck, Sigmar London, Coedition, and SCP. The studio has also designed limited-edition collections for Nilufar Gallery in Milan, Dansk Møbelkunst Gallery in Copenhagen, and Taka Ishii Gallery in Japan.