Stefano Giovannoni
Born in 1954 and graduated from architecture school in Florence in 1978. He works and lives as an industrial designer, interior designer, and architect. He also serves as a professor in the Domus academy in Milan and as a researcher and lecturer in the Florence architecture faculty, Royal Academy for Arts in London, and other known schools. He founded, among a few, a movement called Bolidism, a movement that stands for designing products using simple line. He established the King Kong Production studio, researching architecture, home product design, fashion, and interior design. He won many international design awards and worked with a long line of design companies: Alessi, Flos, Magis, Seiko, Pulsar, Capellini and Saab. His works are regularly exhibited in he Pompidou Center in Paris and in the museum of Modern Arts in NYC. One of his longest, most fruitful collaborations is with the Alessi company: he designed the “Circle of people” design with a stick figure motif for them and many more post-modern products, products that are witty and full of humor, such as the Merdolino bathroom brush, the Mary cookie jar and the Lilliput salt and pepper set. In 2002, he designed a bathroom accessory set for them, the first of many.
Stefano Giovannoni
Born in 1954 and graduated from architecture school in Florence in 1978. He works and lives as an industrial designer, interior designer, and architect. He also serves as a professor in the Domus academy in Milan and as a researcher and lecturer in the Florence architecture faculty, Royal Academy for Arts in London, and other known schools. He founded, among a few, a movement called Bolidism, a movement that stands for designing products using simple line. He established the King Kong Production studio, researching architecture, home product design, fashion, and interior design. He won many international design awards and worked with a long line of design companies: Alessi, Flos, Magis, Seiko, Pulsar, Capellini and Saab. His works are regularly exhibited in he Pompidou Center in Paris and in the museum of Modern Arts in NYC. One of his longest, most fruitful collaborations is with the Alessi company: he designed the “Circle of people” design with a stick figure motif for them and many more post-modern products, products that are witty and full of humor, such as the Merdolino bathroom brush, the Mary cookie jar and the Lilliput salt and pepper set. In 2002, he designed a bathroom accessory set for them, the first of many.