Alberto Lievore is a well-known architect and designer, and was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1948. He was born into a family of Italian immigrants, and even as a child, he had grown into his interests and sensitivity for his simple environment, his family and all his simple possessions. He had begun inventing various objects and creating toys for himself, but as the years progressed he pursued a scientific technical education in chemistry and went into work for an oil company. He later completed his military service and sought to further his love for design and began architecture at the Buenos Aires Faculty of Architecture.

While he went to school, he worked at a cabinetmaker’s workshop and as a window dresser, but it was at the workshop that he did design some lacquered furniture for a bank, and it was there that he first met Jorge Pensi. At this time he had acquired a lot more wisdom about his craft and was confident enough to establish his own studio, Hipótesis in 1972, where he designed furniture to his tastes and showcased his work, and his production aspect was done right there as well. His works ran strongly on the foundations of the vast concept of design, which is fathomed to be a rigorous, cultural discipline and “integrationist”, as a process that pursues the purest spirit or essence of an entity. He received a lot of local recognition and acceptance, but a few years later Argentina went into its dictatorship period, and this signaled Lievore’s departure from his home country.