Anastassiades describes the project as “a very interesting exercise right from the beginning, in how do you actually achieve the most minimal table with a very simplified geometric section.”
The windows of the store are enriched by a special graphic that invites the visitor to enter into a world of design and craftsmanship – a synaesthesia that magnifies the senses.
Anastassiades’ intervention in the Molteni&C Paris Flagship Store is a radical and ironic interpretation of some of the brand’s most iconic designs, paired with Cypriot designer’s latest collection.
Set against a backdrop of dusty pink, Anastassiades has intuitively paired his lighting collection, including the all-new Twin Peak Down and Tripe Peak up pendant lamps, with iconic pieces of the Molteni&C collections, that span the historic brand’s many decades of work.
The pieces include his own ‘Half a Square Table,’ a minimal yet impeccably crafted dining table featuring a top in white Carrara marble, Werner Blaser’s MHC.1 dress in honey pattern wood, Gio Ponti’s D.555.1 coffee table and the D.154.5 armchair and Jasper Morrison’s red and black oak Tea chairs.
The intervention unites Molteni&C’s rich history, while keeping an eye towards the shifting dimensions of a radical future.
“Radical is about contamination. Radical is about simplicity. Radical is the way we conceive spaces in relation to their essence. A free interpretation of different dimensions, a physiological relation between light and elements.”
Michael Anastassiades
Michael Anastassiades
22 Rue des Saints Pères 75007, Paris, France
Tue–Fri 10:00 - 19:00
Sat 10:00 - 18:00
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