MIKE Z DESIGN

Mike Z Design Functional Art<br> Mike Z Design is a company dedicated to creative solutions. Being a self-taught designer craftsman, I'm not locked into any particular style; however I do seem to have one of that is truly my own. This style was developed in part because of my unique shop location in a basement. When I started to build larger pieces I had to come up with a way to get these projects out of the shop... I was born to Michael & Bobette Zicopoulos in Bloomfield, New Jersey on December 28, 1966. My father came over "on the boat" from Greece when he was 14; by the time he was 21 he had his own bakery in Seaside Park, N.J. One day when I was around three years old I was pesterin' the man siding the new house being built behind my dad's bakeshop. To get me out of his hair he gave me a magnet and told me to go and pick up all the nails he had dropped in the sand from around the foundation. That was the beginning... I was the top architecture student at Central Regional High..