On landing on more or less known shores, it is the surfaces, a grass mantle compared to a desert, a reef compared to a beach, that dictate the first sensation a traveller has.
And it is this first sensation that awakens the curiosity to discover all that lies behind.

This metaphor has been the idea that this year, has prompted Piero Lissoni, long-standing art director at Porro, to focus the attention on everything that lies behind the surface.
Not only because this is solely and entirely an aesthetic factor that is quickly and easily legible, but to signify the symbiosis between surfaces and contents, both for the characteristics of use that a product must have, and for the worlds of reference that Porro intends to address, with its own systems rather than with the accessories in the collection.
Natural woods, coloured metals, black and white decorations, contrasts of shiny and matt: diverse notes follow freely in succession in the Porro spaces, to then be recomposed in a harmonious score.
A bright, transparent box, where the warm tones of wood left in its natural form dissipate the rigour of the total white that pervades the space three-dimensionally with a few well-defined areas of black.
For the layout design of the Porro stand at the Milan Furniture Fair 2009, Piero Lissoni opts for a further reduction of his own system of signs and geometries, to achieve - in a process of extreme purification - a space of pure matter and light.