A lifetime of design – Piero Lissoni

Piero Lissoni is one of the most revered contemporary Italian furniture designers. Their chubby but elegant designs are a hybrid of 1950s and ’70s elegance and look like they belong in a Frederico Fellini movie or even a Kubrick movie. His inspirations include the designs of, but also designers such as the Danish Arne Jacobsen and Poul Kjærholm. His sense of minimalism stems from his affinity with the famous Milanese designers who preceded him, including the heyday of heroes Marco Zanuso, Ettore Sottsass, Achille Castiglioni, and Vico Magistretti.

However sophisticated their designs may be, they feel equally at home in your home as they do in a rooftop lounge in Rio de Janiero simply because they are simple, clean, and timeless.

Lissoni began her career with a degree in Architecture from the prestigious Milan Polytechnic. His first design experience was as art director and chief designer at Boffi Kitchens, which is a company known for its stylish postmodern accessories.

After honing his skills in the business for a decade at Boffi Kitchens, Lissoni formed his first company Lissoni Associati in 1986 together with his partner Nicoletta Canessi. This company specialized in graphic design, interior design and architecture.

A decade later, in 1996, the company was revamped when Graph X added furniture, fixture, lighting, bathroom, kitchen, signage and packaging design to its company’s artistic services.

Lissoni is known for being a full-package style designer. This idea was pioneered when he formed Lissoni Associati. This means that everything, including architecture, furniture and accessories in a large-scale project, would be marked with its unique style. It is known for its stark lines, demure fabrics, and shades of gray that are sometimes caught by an orange accent.

Lissoni’s clients are among some of the largest furniture and design companies in the world, including Alessi, Boffi, Cappellini, Cassina, Flos, Fritz Hansen, Glas, Kartell, Lema, Living Divani, Matteograssi, Poltrona Frau, Porro, Tecno and Wella.

In the last decade he has also added the branding and design of luxury hotels and condominiums. Count the magnificent Monanco and the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, the Al Porot hotel by Lake Zurich.

in Switzerland and the Mitsui Garden Ginza business hotel in Tokyo among his designs. He also designed the beautiful Bentley Hotel in Istanbul.

Lissoni has also designed very sleek, high-tech showrooms including all headquarters, showrooms, and factories for her first employer – Boffi Kitchens. He also designs showrooms for Cassina, Glas, Tecno and Living Divani.

In the new century, Lissoni has found her business expanding to Moscow, Tel Aviv, Bangkok, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Work is underway at a Lissoni Studio in New York to facilitate the construction of an attic on Fifth Avenue, a house in Sagaponack, New York, and a possible hotel in Miami.

His most recent favorite project is not on land at all. It is a 170 foot yacht decorated in her signature style. The vessel “Ghost” was achieved with the help of designer Kitty Hawkes and yacht designer Lucas Brenta.

As a designer, Lissoni is considered an innovator and a living archivist of everything that is most useful, aesthetic and glamorous about contemporary Italian design.