The Designer

Piero Lissoni

Piero Lissoni is an architect, designer and Art Director. In 1986, he and Nicoletta Canesi founded the interdisciplinary design and architecture studio Lissoni Associati, in Milan. This was followed in 1996 by the studio for visual communication Graph.x, which specialises in brand development and corporate identity, by the architectural firm Lissoni Architettura in 2013, to take charge of the increasing number of international architectural commissions and, two years later, by Lissoni Inc. in New York, which handles interior design projects in the USA, Canada, Central and South America. Lissoni Inc. works closely with licensed architects of record on all the USA projects. Piero Lissoni is Art Director for major brands. His architecture and design work is recognized worldwide and has earned him a series of international awards.

Alessigraphy: the geography of Alessi production

Since the Company's Foundation in 1921 the Majority of Alessi Products have Been Manufactured through the Cold Working of Metals, a Tradition that is Kept Alive Today by the Skilled Workers at the Crusinallo Plant in Omegna.

Over time, Alessi also began to work with many other materials, such as porcelain, glass, wood, and plastic. A specific production method was developed for each one. Even when production takes place outside the Crusinallo plant, Alessi’s guidelines ensure the company’s original production quality standards, continuing to reconcile industrial technological complexity with an artisanal eye for detail.

The objects produced from the different materials are manufactured in various production plants across the world. They remain original Alessi objects in that they are conceived with the same design excellence and produced with the same attention to quality that sets the company’s products apart.