In 1986 architect and designer Piero Lissoni founded the firm Lissoni Associati (together with Nicoletta Canesi), a multidisciplinary company that now has offices in Milan and New York and develops projects worldwide in the fields of architecture, product design, graphics and visual communication, with the support of other companies that are part of the group. The studio has designed numerous showrooms for many prestigious clients, both in Italy (Milan and Venice) and abroad (France, USA, Turkey and Japan).