Born in La Spezia in 1954, Stefano, as an architect and designer, was taught by Buti at Florence University. In the early 1980s, he founded the King-Kong production group along with Guido Venturini. A technical designer par excellence, he has industrial design in his DNA and a capacity to understand public sentiment like no other designer mentioned in this catalog. His projects began with the Girotondo (1989, designed by Guido Venturini) and the first transparent plastic objects from the Family Follows Fiction series (1993). There is a vast number of his items in the Officina Alessi, Alessi, and A di Alessi catalogs.