The KAZIMIR Collection, designed by Michael Anastassiades for Glas Italia, is a sophisticated furniture line that embodies the essence of contemporary design through the minimalist elegance of glass. This collection includes shelves, consoles, and low tables, all entirely crafted from a special 10 mm double-sided acid-etched tempered green glass or 6+6 mm double-sided acid-etched laminated extralight glass.
Minimalist design and masterful glass craftsmanship
Each piece in the collection is the result of masterful craftsmanship, precisely layering and assembling glass sheets. The surfaces are joined using an innovative UV bonding technique, free of visible structural elements, ensuring an effect of absolute lightness and purity. This production process not only provides high durability but also enhances the formal rigor of the geometries, transforming each element into a functional sculpture.
Michael Anastassiades, renowned for his essential and poetic approach to design, has given the collection a perfect balance between linearity and visual depth. The rigorous shapes interact with transparency and opacity, creating a fascinating dialogue with light, making these furnishings ideal for sophisticated and modern spaces, whether residential or professional.
A distinctive feature of the collection is the ability to install the shelves upside down, adding greater versatility and allowing for dynamic, customized configurations. The design is characterized by the absence of visible joints, giving the pieces a sense of suspension and continuity, emphasizing the aesthetic value of the material and its refined craftsmanship.
The KAZIMIR Collection stands out for its perfect balance between innovation and tradition, lightness and solidity, functionality and aesthetic research. Each piece is designed to integrate harmoniously into refined architectural contexts, offering a furnishing solution that is both discreet and striking, minimal yet impactful.
A tribute to pure design, where material becomes the protagonist, expressing its full beauty through precise forms and the absolute quality of the materials, bearing the unmistakable signature of Michael Anastassiades.
Michael Anastassiades
Michael Anastassiades is a Cypriot designer based in London. He founded his studio in 1994 followed by his eponymous brand in 2007. Working across lighting, furniture, objects and spatial design, his designs are most notable for their honest use of materials, familiarity of form and clarity of function. They are at once disciplined and obsessive with a playfulness that inspires a vitality once might not expect.
Glas Italia
Glas Italia, established in 1972 in Brianza manufactures doors, wall partitions and glass furniture, supported by century-long experience of the family glass factory and driven by an inexhaustible passion for glass. Research and design combined with the most advanced technology, in collaboration with internationally renowned designers, realizing the ideas of their creative talent come true. Sophistication, originality, intrinsic and formal quality are the salient features of all Glas Italia products that are equally adhered to in home, office and contract sectors.
Photo credit Crisula Barbata
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