2023
Published by Rizzoli and edited by Stefano Casciani, the book traces a hundred architecture, interior, product design, installation and graphics projects developed over a career spanning almost 40 years.
The title Environments was chosen to reflect the idea of a project - common to many of those presented - as an expression of new visions of the built environment attained through researching and inventing spaces and objects that are particularly mindful of the needs of users, manufacturers and constructors, but which also possess a particular expressive vocation that is close to the world of the plastic and visual arts.
Particulars
Title: Environments. Piero Lissoni
Author and Editor: Stefano Casciani
Publisher: Rizzoli / Rizzoli New York
Pages: 480 pp.
Details: bodoniana binding with Favini Sumo boards and cover in black card and matte white canvas
GRAPHIC DESIGN
The book was designed by Lissoni & Partners and clearly reflects the studio’s signature style, from the choice of packaging to the paper that alternates to differentiate the two inserts: one on product design, embellished with illustrations by Guido Scarabottolo, and another on graphic design.
EDITORIAL CONCEPT
Writing and editing this book has been a long journey in the space/time continuum of the work
of Piero Lissoni.” says Stefano Casciani, “And if, as science argues, space/time is curved or circular,
by moving attentively through this construction of cherished pages, in the end we find ourselves
returning to its origins: an idea of space, an environment that can be architecture, object, graphics,
photography or words, but which will always be part of a universe of myriad possible experiences
and visions, just like in a magical box or a kaleidoscope that always reflect a different image of those
who wrote and designed them.”
"In my experience, the design trade is nothing with- out curiosity." says Piero Lissoni, "It requires the will
to go beyond the Pillars of Hercules on a daily basis, to find the breaking point, to seek confines not yet
explored. This is what it’s like to be an architect, a product designer and a graphic designer."
ILLUSTRATIONS
In the section dedicated to product design, Piero Lissoni's projects engage in a dialogue with
the illustrations created by Guido Scarabattolo.
BOOK LAUNCH EVENTS
Environments, was first launched at an evening at Rizzoli Galleria in Milan
with Stefano Casciani (author and editor of the book) and Giovanna Melandri
(economist, cultural manager and president of Human Foundation), and then
at an event at Rizzoli New York featuring Piero Lissoni in conversation with
Cindy Allen (editor-in-chief of Interior Design Magazine).
Web Design / Tommaso Cavallini; Text / Alice Caudera, Laura Cucchi, Donatella Brun; Translation / Richard Peace; Content management / Giorgia Maretta, Laura Presti, Constanza Coscia; Web development / Friweb.
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