<b>If you had to limit yourself in your work to a single material for the next three years, which one would you choose?</b> Piero Lissoni: I like all materials and I am very open-minded. Every material has its soul. If you limit the production to just one material from the beginning, you are automatically bound by strong rules. It is not for me to decide which material is better than the other. In a way, it is the project that finds the one honest and good material. <b>Have you identified certain trends in materials?</b> I don't like trends. But I do use colours, new materials and new surfaces. I like to combine many different thoughts. Sometimes I ‘extremise’ the use of materials. For Porro, we used, for example, some new surfaces in wood, but we colour the wood in such incredible acid colours, so that the material is not used in its original, natural appearance. But at the same time we put together some very sophisticated surfaces. <b>When working on a design project, where you… continue
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