Michael Anastassiades

Michael Anastassiades was born in Cyprus in 1967, trained as a civil engineer at Imperial College and took a master’s in industrial design at the Royal College of Art. He founded his London studio in 1994 and his own brand in 2007, and his lights for Flos include String Lights. He became a Royal Designer for Industry in 2015, won the Compasso d’Oro in 2020 and was appointed OBE in 2024.

For B&B Italia he designed the Jack storage system in 2018, the Parallel Structure table in 2019 and, in 2026, the Metric chair and armchair in slender solid oak.