Gaggenau - Michael Anastassiades 'Rigorously Purist'

When she's not busy being editor-in-chief of Le Cercle, our sister magazine from City News Publishing, Anastasia Nysten is working away with Michael Anastassiades to create beautiful design installations like these.

 

Gaggenau - Michael Anastassiades 'Rigorously Purist' from Olivier Hess on Vimeo.

Selections || The Design Issue

          The Design Issue marks a new look for Selections as the magazine is re-launched with a new focus on arts & culture. With two exclusive covers designed especially by Studio Putman, in Paris, and Rana Salam, in Beirut, the issue presents the leading lights from architecture, product design, fashion, and design innovation across the region, with guests from Europe also. Zaha Hadid is in conversation with architectural critic Hilary French; design guru Justin McGuirk reviews this year's Salone del Mobile; Rabih Kayrouz is photographed in his Paris atelier; Sheyma Bu Ali considers Thomas Heatherwick's scheme for Abu Dhabi; and we review Richard Serra's new desert installation. We look to street culture with Rana Salam and peek in to the world of Olivia Putman in our Curated By section.

LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2013

The editor-in-chief of our interiors magazine for the design store Le Cercle, Anastasia Nysten (above), spends a lot of time in London. Working as a designer herself, both under her own name and for Michael Anastassiades studio, she gets an insider view of the most exciting new design work emerging from the British capital.

These were her top installations at this year's recent London Design Festival:

The Wind Portal by Najla El Zein at the V&A

The Dinner Party by Scholten & Baijings at the V&A

Endless Staircase by Alex de Rijke at Tate Modern

 The Conductor by Faye Toogood at Established & Sons

Anastasia's favourite events included the Sleep by Design presentation by B&B Italia and Meet the Designers with Ligne Roset. For more details pick up a copy of the next issue of Le Cercle, out next month.