Alessi PL07 W Birillo Tissue Box – White

• Designer: Piero Lissoni
• Handwash suggested
• Part of a full collection – Birillo

Bathroom Accessories Birillo

Alessi

Designer: Piero Lissoni

The Birillo Collection

The balance between the minimal shape and the used materials is the main characteristic of this project. The entire range of product is minimal and essential thanks to its rectangular shape and very well finished with it’s rounded edges. The objects are simple but never dull.

The Designer

Piero Lissoni

Piero Lissoni is an architect, designer and Art Director. In 1986, he and Nicoletta Canesi founded the interdisciplinary design and architecture studio Lissoni Associati, in Milan. This was followed in 1996 by the studio for visual communication Graph.x, which specialises in brand development and corporate identity, by the architectural firm Lissoni Architettura in 2013, to take charge of the increasing number of international architectural commissions and, two years later, by Lissoni Inc. in New York, which handles interior design projects in the USA, Canada, Central and South America. Lissoni Inc. works closely with licensed architects of record on all the USA projects. Piero Lissoni is Art Director for major brands. His architecture and design work is recognized worldwide and has earned him a series of international awards.

The company

Founded in 1921 as a “Workshop for the processing of brass and nickel silver sheet metal, with foundry”, Alessi has always stood out for the high quality of its products. In almost a century of history, the company has gradually evolved to become one of the “Factories of Italian design”, capable of applying its expertise and excellence in design management to many different product types. Open to change and international development, Alessi at the same time has a strong bond with the traditions and cultural background of its area and continues to be synonymous with handcrafted objects produced with the help of machines.

Alessigraphy: the geography of Alessi production

Since the Company’s Foundation in 1921 the Majority of Alessi Products have Been Manufactured through the Cold Working of Metals, a Tradition that is Kept Alive Today by the Skilled Workers at the Crusinallo Plant in Omegna.

Over time, Alessi also began to work with many other materials, such as porcelain, glass, wood, and plastic. A specific production method was developed for each one. Even when production takes place outside the Crusinallo plant, Alessi’s guidelines ensure the company’s original production quality standards, continuing to reconcile industrial technological complexity with an artisanal eye for detail.

The objects produced from the different materials are manufactured in various production plants across the world. They remain original Alessi objects in that they are conceived with the same design excellence and produced with the same attention to quality that sets the company’s products apart.