One Well-Known Sequence: Michael Anastassiades’ Third Lighting Collection for Nilufar Gallery.

Michael Anastassiades’ new collection of lights is having its debut in the recently decommissioned Camden garage that he will convert into his studio over the coming months. First built in 1900 and used to mend cars for the last forty odd years, the space is left as is for now, with its concrete floor painted red, its walls blue to waist height and traces of a working garage on every surface.

The lights offer various combinations of standard linear LED bulbs, either 1 or 0.5 meter long, and tubular brass fittings of the same diameter. They appear as parallel repetitions of rods, either in metal or illuminated. The design process was systematic bordering on the obsessive, with Michael exploring all the possible iterations determined by a mathematical sequence. The final cut, however, was made on purely aesthetic grounds. The eleven arrangements that went on to become the editioned lights were chosen for their apparent effortlessness. Belying the complexity of their construction and the skills of the UK-based machinist who manufactured them, they look as if they came together by chance.

One Well-Known Sequence is Michael Anastassiades’ third lighting collection for Nilufar Gallery, after launching the two families Tree in the Moonlight (2010) and Lit Lines (2011). Just as the two previous collections, all pieces are hand crafted in unlacquered satin brass.

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[Images courtesy of Michael Anastassiades. Photography credits noted.]