Molteni – Card bookcase H126/86/45
The versatile talent of designer Michael Anastassiades meets technological innovation to meet the needs of everyday living. The Card bookcase combines essential functionality and contemporary configuration, reflecting the minimalist and recognizable aesthetic of Anastassiades. With a precise graphic identity, the Card bookcase perfectly integrates the distinctive stylistic approach of the Cypriot designer with the rest of the Collection.
Michael Anastassiades
Michael Anastassiades is a Cypriot-born, London-based designer. He founded his studio in 1994 to explore the contemporary notions of culture and aesthetic through a combination of product, furniture and enviromental design. Positioned between art and design, his work aims to provoke dialogue, participation and interection. He creates objects that are minimal, utilitarian and almost mundane but full of vitality that one might not expect. Anastassiades' works are exhibited in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Crafts Council in London, the FRAC Centre in Orleans, France and the MAK in Vienna. Recent solo exhibitions include Time And Again at the Geymüllerschlössel / MAK in Vienna, To Be Perfectly Frank at Svenskt Tenn in Stockholm, Norfolk House music room at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. He has also designed products with various leading manufacturers including Flos, Puiforcat, Lobmeyr and Svenskt Tenn. In 2007 he founded Michael Anastassiades's company in order to produce his distinctive pieces, a collection of lighting, furniture, jewellry, and accessories table. The studio's philosophy is an ongoing pursuit for eclecticism, individuality and timeless quality in design.
Michael trained as a civil engineer at London’s Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine before taking a masters degree in industrial design at the Royal College of Art.
Angelo Molteni, born in 1912, began his entrepreneurial activity in Giussano, now the province of Monza and Brianza, the furniture district. His workshop becomes, in a short time, synonymous with high quality product. The 60s began in the best way, in fact Angelo Molteni is in the founding committee of the first Salone del Mobile in Milan, which opened on 24 September 1961 with great success. This is the decade of the revolution: in a few months, the production is converted from classic to modern, to create well-designed furniture, designed for the series. Luca Meda, a student of the Ulm School, is the man of the revolution, his Iride containers presented at the Salone del Mobile in 1968. From the 70s until today, Molteni grows, is renewed and concretizes in a definitive way its value, and the undisputed style in the world panorama. In 2008 the distribution expanded beyond the Italian borders and was structured with foreign branches. New molteni&c | Dada monobrand stores are opening: about 600 in the world, including 40 Flagship Stores, also present in the largest international design metropolises such as London and New York. Moltenigroup.com is born, the web address of the new website of the Molteni Group. Key words are narration, inspiration, contemporaneity of molteni&c and Dada brands. As of April 2016, Belgian architect and designer Vincent Van Duysen has been appointed creative director of molteni&c and Dada. After the success of the Gliss Master wardrobe collection, the new collaboration focuses on image coordination and the retail concept.
