Esquire Awards 2024

Piero Lissoni was celebrated at the Esquire Awards 2024, the first edition of an emblematic tribute recognizing those personalities that Esquire Italia believes have left their mark on our times in the pursuit of their ideas.

The reasoning behind the jury’s decision was as follows: “The ability to design in a person possessing the most exciting and most comprehensive approach. Knowing how to imagine how and where, how to involve the physical or virtual worlds, how to find a valid purpose in order to give a meaning to the construction of something is a gift. To understand the need and to identify the solution. Piero Lissoni possesses such a talent. He has honed his skill during an illustrious career lasting almost 40 years, going beyond the confines and expanding his creativity into a range of different design disciplines, placing his essential and decisive vision at the center of an activity that leaves a recognizable and fundamental imprint.

In a Milan whose evolutionary core is in constant motion, Piero Lissoni transformed the historic Garage Traversi into a surprising space, the world’s largest Audemars Piguet AP House, changing an abandoned and gloomy architecture into a place of cultural significance for the city. The staircase is the mark of a style of great elegance.”

Photographer - Tommaso Sartori