According to Piero Lissoni, curiosity did not kill the cat. “It’s absolutely not true; banality killed the cat,” asserts the Italian architect and designer in all earnestness. It is an early October morning, and we are in the Space Furniture Asia showroom surrounded by furniture from B&B Italia, for whom Lissoni became creative director in 2021. He is in Singapore as part of celebratory festivities to mark the 30th anniversary of Space Furniture, an Australian-headquartered purveyor of luxury furniture.
The Italian architect and designer’s revision of the famous proverb was
