Two hundred and nineteen rooms in Mumbai: Piero Lissoni

A 219-room hotel in Mumbai, a private villa in the same city and villas across India: the Indian work of Piero Lissoni is hospitality at a scale where every decision is multiplied by hundreds of rooms, which is exactly the discipline his practice was built for. He is an architect who also art-directs, and for close to four decades his Milan studio has moved between buildings, landscape, interiors, objects and graphics, running FF&E coordination as a department of its own rather than as an afterthought — the reason a Lissoni room in Mumbai and one in Beijing feel like the same author without repeating a single element.

Indian offices reach the same author at a smaller scale: La Mercanti carries his two Tecno pieces, the Asymmetrical director's desk and the Asymmetrical Meeting table, alongside Fantini, the tap manufacturer whose headquarters he also designed.