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Mix Master

Kitchens play a pivotal role in the timeline of Piero Lissoni's life. From childhood conversations around the dinner table regarding his creative ambitions to the small apartment in Milan where he set up his first studio, the architect followed his passion for creating spaces through classrooms, offices, and studios around the globe before landing, in 1986, at Boffi—a purveyor of (go figure) luxury kitchens.

“For me, it was like a special trampoline jump,” Lissoni says of the move, made when he was just 30 years old, which would help launch his career and

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