Born in La Spezia in 1954, Stefano Giovannoni was educated as an architect and designer at Florence University. In the early 1980’s he founded the King-Kong Production Group along with Guido Venturini. With an eye for communication and a penchant for cleverness, Giovannoni has designed some of the most commercially successful products in the world, including the successful Girotondo and Mami lines of household products for Alessi, Il Bagno Alessi, and the Bombo family for Magis.