Matrioska Credenza
A sensual game of full and empty parts, lights and shadows: Piero
Lissoni designs Matrioska for Knoll, solid and essential, like an architecture
that offers glimpses of its contents without revealing them entirely.
"Matrioska is a cabinet (credenza) conceived as a container made to
house other containers that house things to contain. Each part is visible and
reveals its structure in relation to the others, along with its function which
is to accommodate and organize. I thought of it as an open and minimal house
with forms one inside the other, a sequence of empty and full spaces. A kind of
rulebook of shapes, proportions and dimensions that narrate the way the space
can be organized through an orchestration of colors and materials - marble,
wood, lacquer and glass.”
A sensual game of full and empty parts, lights and
shadows: Piero Lissoni designs Matrioska for Knoll, solid and essential, like
an architecture that offers glimpses of its contents without revealing them
entirely.
It houses elements within that are open or closed by
doors: drawers, shelves and boxes made from traditional materials such as wood,
marble and glass. Configured as a system to accommodate and store, its
containers can be arranged in different combinations and moved around within
the structure to create a variety of configurations in an elegant play of
geometric volumes.
| About Designer | |
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Piero Lissoni - Knoll |
The architect,
designer and art director Piero Lissoni (1956), after graduating from the
Politecnico di Milano, founded the Milan based interdisciplinary studio Lissoni
Associati in 1986 together with Nicoletta Canesi, developing architecture,
interior and industrial design projects. Ten years later saw the opening of
Graph.x, the graphics studio specializing in brand development and corporate
identity. In 2013 it was the turn of Lissoni Architettura and in 2015 the New
York based Lissoni Inc. was established, to follow the international market.
With its staff of 70, the studio develops architecture, interiors, design and
graphics projects, including villas, residential complexes, offices, factories,
theatres, restaurants and hotels, yachts, shops, retail areas, museum fit-outs,
exhibition stands, furniture and lighting. Piero Lissoni is art director
of Alpi, Boffi, De Padova, Living Divani, Lema, Lualdi, Porro and Sanlorenzo
for whom he designs a variety of products. Recognized as one of the masters of
contemporary design, he works for many international brands including Alessi,
Antrax, B&B, Bonacina1889, Cappellini, Cassina, Cotto, Fantini, Flos, Glas
Italia, Golran, Illy, Janus et Cie, Kartell, Kerakoll, Knoll, Nerosicilia,
Olivari, Salvatori, Tecno, Viccarbe. Recently completed architectural projects
include The Middle House for the Swire Hotels Group in Shanghai (2018), The
Oberoi Al Zorah Beach Resort Ajman in the UAE (2017), Oceana Bal Harbour, the
masterful 240-unit condominium in Miami (2017), Casa Fantini, an 11-room hotel
on the shores of Lake Orta (2017), the Sanlorenzo SX88 yacht (2017), Roomers
Hotel in Baden-Baden with 130 rooms and spa (2016), Conservatorium Hotel in
Amsterdam (2012), Mamilla Hotel in Jerusalem (2009), the renovation of the
historic Teatro Nazionale in Milan (2009) and the production headquarters of
Fantini spa (2018), Kerakoll Design Lab (2014), Glas Italia (2010) and Living
Divani (2007). Current projects include the Hotel Park in Croatia, the
Autograph Hotel and Residences in Budapest, SLS Lux Hotel and Residences in
Washington D.C., the Miami Beach Ritz-Carlton Residences, apartments at 45 Park
Place in New York, the Hilton Tbilisi hotel in Georgia and private villas in
Amsterdam, New York and Mumbai. Lissoni’s interest in the art world
brought him to design a variety of temporary shows in Milan: the room for
exhibitions at Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, inaugurated with “The triptych of
Antonello da Messina” (2015) and recently featuring “The Museum of Innocence by
Orhan Pamuk” (2018), the retrospective of the photographer Giovanni Gastel,
curated by Germano Celant, at Palazzo della Ragione (2016), the anthology of
the Renaissance painter “Bernardino Luini e i suoi Figli” at Palazzo Reale
(2014). Fondazione Palazzo Te has inaugurated in Mantua the exhibition
“Tiziano/Gerhard Richter- Heaven on earth ” where Piero Lissoni, with Lissoni
Associati and Graph.x, has designed the installation, the project of visual
identity and the catalogue to accompany the show (2018-2019). Piero
Lissoni has received a series of international awards, including the Good
Design Award, the Red Dot Award and the Compasso d'Oro ADI; he is Board Member
of the MAXXI National Museum in Rome, he is visiting professor and part of the
Advisory Board at the Politecnico di Milano, he is Honorary Member of the
Altagamma International Council. |
