STONE Planter

Born in La Spezia in 1954, architect and designer student of Buti at the University of Florence. In the early 1980s, he created the King-Kong Production group together with Guido Venturini. Giovannoni has designed some of the world's most commercially successful products, including the successful Girotondo and Mami for Alessi lines of home products; Il Bagno also for Alessi, and the Bombo family for Magis. In fact, Giovannoni says that seeing the results of his products is even more satisfying to him than the many prestigio awards he's won over the years. "It's my job to think about how a product will be received in the marketplace, and that's something I take very seriously." A methanoic designer par excellence, he has industrial design in his blood and has an ability to understand the public like few among the designers represented in this catalogue. His projects, beginning with the Girotondo tray (1989, designed with Guido Venturini) and with the first playful plastic objects from the Family Follows Fiction series (1993), are articulated in a wide family of objects in production in the Officina Alessi catalogs. , Alessi.