Ernesto Michahelles

Place: Florence

Born: 1893

Death: 1959

Biography:

Thayaht was the pseudonym of artist and designer Ernesto Michahelles (1893–1959) best known for his revolutionary design of the TuTa and his involvement with the Italian Futurist movement. Thayaht was born in Florence, Italy and was of British, German, Swiss and American origins. He studied painting at the Académie Ranson in Paris and scientific dyes and dynamic structure at Harvard University. He adopted the pseudonym 'THAYAHT' around 1919, which is a 'bifrontal' palindrome, meaning it's visually symmetrical and can be read from right to left, left to right, and as its own reflection. Thayaht was a painter, sculptor, photographer, fashion designer, draftsman, architect, inventor and goldsmith. He was an eclectic and innovator, an experimental forerunner of new artistic sensibilities.