Piero Lissoni (1956) architect, designer and art director, after graduating in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano, started out on his career as designer and art director. Together with Nicoletta Canesi he opened the Lissoni Associati studio in 1986 in Milan.
1996 saw the creation of Graph.x, a company dedicated to the development of graphics projects. The work of the studio, with a staff of over 60 people, involves architecture and interiors, industrial and graphic design. Projects include hotels, resorts, showrooms, shops, headquarters, trade fair stands, private houses, and yachts, from furnishing to lighting, from art direction to corporate identity, from catalogues to packaging.
Piero Lissoni develops projects for Alessi, Boffi, Cappellini, Cassina, Desalto, Fantini, Flos, Fritz Hansen, Glas Italia, Kartell, Knoll International, Lema, Living Divani, Lualdi, Porro, Tecno and Thonet.
The studio is currently developing projects worldwide, among which Al Zorah Resort Hotel in Ajman, Persian Gulf/United Arab Emirates, a boutique hotel in the centre of Moscow, the interior architecture and design of a tower in Shanghai for the Swire Hotels group.