Balestro sofa

Piero Lissoni is an architect, designer and art director in Italy. In 1986, he and Nicoletta Canesi founded Lissoni Associati, a multidisciplinary architecture, interiors and design firm based in Milan. This was followed by the opening of the visual communications company Graph.x in 1996 and later by the firms Lissoni Architettura and the New York based Lissoni Inc. which is dedicated to interior design projects in the US, Canada and Central and South America.

With its multinational staff, 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.