Piero LissoniItaly (1956 - )
Architect and designer Piero Lissoni approaches his work with a mastery of proportion and an acute sensitivity for the subtlety that distinguishes the common from the insightful, never designing for a specific function or purpose, but designing for human beings. Lissoni's influences include Italian masters Zanuso, Sottsass, Castiglioni, and Magistretti, but also Danish designers such as Arne Jacobsen and Poul Kjærholm. His clients are many of the most world-renowned design companies: Alessi, Boffi, Cappellini, Cassina, Flos, Fritz Hansen, Kartell, Living Divani, Matteograssi, Poltrona Frau, Porro, and Tecno.
Lissoni began his career in 1978 having gained his architecture degree at the Milan Polytechnic and in 1985 started with Boffi Kitchens as Art Director & Designer. With Nicoletta Canesi he founded the architectural firm Lissoni Associates in Milan in 1986, and ten years later lent his vision to Graph.x, a graphic design company. As well as designing furniture, kitchens, bathrooms and lighting fixtures, he is also a premier art director, focusing on corporate identity, signage and packaging. Known collectively as Piero Lissoni, the affiliates are now handling houses in Moscow, Tel Aviv, Bangkok, and the Turks and Caicos.
Lissoni's projects are often total designs - that is, full-scale interiors and architecture of offices and showrooms, yachts, private homes, and hotels. In recent years, he has designed luxury hotels such as the Monaco & Grand Canal in Venice, the Al Porto hotel on Lake Zurich, the Bentley Design Hotel in Istanbul, and the Mitsui Garden Ginza Hotel in Tokyo, a luxurious resort in Miami and a resort in collaboration with other architects at the Turks & Caicos Islands, to name a few.
During the Neocon World Fair in June 1996, Piero Lissoni shared his vision on his new collection with the design trade and the public in a special lecture at Luminaire, and in May 2006 he presented the book Liquid Space: 70 Years of Boffi Design with Roberto Gavazzi in a special evening at Luminaire's new Boffi Kitchen and Bath studio in Coral Gables.
Lissoni began his career in 1978 having gained his architecture degree at the Milan Polytechnic and in 1985 started with Boffi Kitchens as Art Director & Designer. With Nicoletta Canesi he founded the architectural firm Lissoni Associates in Milan in 1986, and ten years later lent his vision to Graph.x, a graphic design company. As well as designing furniture, kitchens, bathrooms and lighting fixtures, he is also a premier art director, focusing on corporate identity, signage and packaging. Known collectively as Piero Lissoni, the affiliates are now handling houses in Moscow, Tel Aviv, Bangkok, and the Turks and Caicos.
Lissoni's projects are often total designs - that is, full-scale interiors and architecture of offices and showrooms, yachts, private homes, and hotels. In recent years, he has designed luxury hotels such as the Monaco & Grand Canal in Venice, the Al Porto hotel on Lake Zurich, the Bentley Design Hotel in Istanbul, and the Mitsui Garden Ginza Hotel in Tokyo, a luxurious resort in Miami and a resort in collaboration with other architects at the Turks & Caicos Islands, to name a few.
During the Neocon World Fair in June 1996, Piero Lissoni shared his vision on his new collection with the design trade and the public in a special lecture at Luminaire, and in May 2006 he presented the book Liquid Space: 70 Years of Boffi Design with Roberto Gavazzi in a special evening at Luminaire's new Boffi Kitchen and Bath studio in Coral Gables.
