Michael Anastassiades is fixated on quality. Or as he puts it less mildly, “I’ve always been obsessed with perfection.” So much so that in 2007 the designer was driven to launch his own brand, and put to rest his ongoing concerns over materials, manufacturing, marketing, and so on. And the work is indeed impeccable—to the point where describing it seems as futile an exercise as trying to explain what a Bach cello suite sounds like or what a perfectly fried egg tastes like.

Coinciding with Salone del Mobile 2016, Herman Miller presents “The Double Dream of Spring,” an environmental installation by Michael Anastassiades. To debut his inaugural collection of occasional furnishings created exclusively for Herman Miller, the designer has conceived an enigmatic environment inspired by the tradition of metaphysical surrealism and steeped in his own minimalist aesthetic.