Corporate - 09/04/2019

Aboutwater AA/27: the new project by Michael Anastassiades presented at Milan Design Week 2019

Intentionally very different shapes and expressions, but at the same time united in their contemporary style: this is the strategy guiding the designers for Aboutwater, the brand born from the collaboration between Boffi and Fantini aiming at offering special and unique collections in the industry.

His professional philosophy and his designstyle made Michael Anastassiades perfect to join the designers already featured in the Aboutwater brand: Naoto Fukasawa, Piero Lissoni and Paik Sun Kim. Anastassiades’s project, previewed last year during the Milan Design Week in Brushed Stainless Steel and Matt Gun Metal PVD, and has now become a fully-fledged series in the Aboutwater catalogue, as AA/27.

“I think Michael Anastassiades - states Daniela Fantini – is a unique, out-of-the-box designer: his work is somewhere between art and design and he stands out in the international design scene with an absolutely precise identity. I like his quest for the essence, his unusual way of looking at objects and understanding their material without altering their nature, but rather interpreting them by always experimenting and innovating.”

“I think Michael Anastassiades - states Daniela Fantini – is a unique, out-of-the-box designer: his work is somewhere between art and design and he stands out in the international design scene with an absolutely precise identity. I like his quest for the essence, his unusual way of looking at objects and understanding their material without altering their nature, but rather interpreting them by always experimenting and innovating.”

— Daniela Fantini

And about his own project, Michael Anastassiades says: “It is a very familiar, yet unexpected and surprising shape, all at the same time. Familiarity is an important element in my work because people feel comfortable with objects of familiar shapes, and I think this is exactly what makes an object timeless and durable. Balance is also very evident in this project, like it is across all my works. What makes it surprising is that it is a single block with water coming from one side of the faucet, and this is an unexpected element as the connection between the spout and the mixer is invisible, so it looks like it is suspended on the washbasin.

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