Piero Lissoni is a pure Milanese.
He was certainly born
“by accident”,
in 1956, in Seregno (a small town located less than 20 kilometers from the Lombard city), but he grew up between the district of Brera and the province of Brianza where his grandparents lived.
“I had both a peasant childhood - I was enrolled in a primary school located outside the capital - and very urban.
All my friends were in town, we spent our time playing in the streets.
In football, of course.
The Milan of my childhood is very different from that of today.
I remember a time without a car.
People in the 1960s and early 1970s rode bicycles or old Vespas and Lambrettas. ”
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The designer on the Eda-Mame sofa that he imagined for B & B Italia.
SDP / Valentina Sommariva
From an early age, he followed his father, an antique dealer specializing in antique furniture and fabrics, to dedicated exhibitions and fairs organized throughout the country.
Together they visit museums,
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