Piero Lissoni is an Italian architect, art director, and designer.
In 1986, Piero and Nicoletta Canesi founded Lissoni Associati, a multidisciplinary architecture, interiors, and design firm based in Milan. A decade later, Piero founded the visual communications company Graph. x. , and eventually, the interior design firms Lissoni Architettura and the New York-based Lissoni Inc.
With its multinational staff — which currently numbers over 70 — the group encompasses all aspects of architecture, interiors, and product design, as well as graphics, art direction, and corporate identity, extending globally to include hotel, restaurant, residential, corporate, retail, and exhibition design.
Piero is also the art director for a multitude of major brands, including Alpi, Boffi, De Padova, Living Divani, Lema, Lualdi and Porro, and designs products for international names, including Alessi, Baxter, Cappellini, Cassina, Cotto, Desalto, Fantini, Flos, Fritz Hansen, Glas Italia, Kartell, Kerakoll, KN Industrie, Knoll International, Salvatori, SchönhuberFranchi, and Viccarbe.
Graph. x has managed the art direction and corporate identity for many of the above brands, including photo shooting for catalogues and advertising campaigns, company profiles, websites and packaging. Since 2007, the company has also been responsible for the visual coordination of the Venice International Film Festival.
Piero was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in New York in 2005, and in 2015, was been nominated Honorary Member of the Altagamma International Honorary Council in Rome.
Some of Piero's notable designs for Flos include the Mini Button, the Long Light, and the Tight Light.