“A career marked by modernism, a professional journey consisting of cohesion and method, able to offer reassuring and measured glances combined with thrilling poetics. A career that has known how to explore and combine different project disciplines, rendering to us the idea of the unitary nature of creative action”.
Congratulations to our Art Director, Piero Lissoni, awarded with the Compasso d’Oro for his career as an undisputed protagonist of Italian design culture by the ADI Committee and Fondazione ADI Collezione Compasso d’Oro. From the first edition in 1954 – born from an idea of Giò Ponti – to the one of 2024, the Compasso d’Oro award has become over time one of the main recognitions of the quality of design with a long list of ideas and organization.
Piero Lissoni has been awarded in this XXVIII edition for his professional path that reflects Italian design, in project as in production, and today confirms his international future.
“Good design is collective thinking.” Piero Lissoni
Art Director of Living Divani since 1988, through his stylistic code Piero Lissoni has led its unique style aimed at researching formal essence, purity of lines, abstraction.
Great stimulus in Piero Lissoni’s work is curiosity, the same curiosity that pushes Living Divani to always find new ideas and unusual possibilities: a constantly evolving story that tells itself through upholstered furniture and complements, in which iconic products meet absolute novelties in a continuous dialogue between great timeless classics and modern pieces.
Among the timelesses, the bestseller Extrasoft is quoted by the New York Times as one of the 25 most significant furniture products of the past 100 years.
Six experts — the architects and interior designers Rafael de Cárdenas and Daniel Romualdez; the Museum of Modern Art’s senior curator of architecture and design, Paola Antonelli; the actress and avid furniture collector Julianne Moore; the artist and sculptor Katie Stout; and T’s design and interiors director, Tom Delavan have defined a list of the most influential seats, sofas, tables and objects of the last century, including Extrasoft. Characterized by a simple shape, this icon is an upholstered piece with an informal appearance and soft comfort. The NYT highlights its extreme modularity: different elements placed next to each others in irregular geometries,cosy and restful seats.
Also signed by Piero Lissoni, the Frog seat. An iconic product designed in 1995 was selected and included in the permanent collection of the Triennale Italian Design Museum, curated by Marco Sammicheli. The collection is a cross-section on design, in a dialogue between past and present that preserves the best of Italian material culture.
Broad, wide, agile, a tribute to the most fairytale-like of animals, Frog is available in innumerable versions that renew its image over time and will find new variants as Living Divani’s catalogue celebrates its first 30 years.
Living Divani Collections: https://camstudioid.com/living_divani
