Products: Order, Uncontrolled,
Metropolis, Shadow, Track, Antitesi
/Ar O/ Studio
/ àr o/ is an independent creative consultancy studio based in Milan. Founded in 2016 by Andrea Steidl and Raquel Pacchini, the studio works closely with various clients, providing creative direction, product design, and visual communication projects. With a creative process grounded in strategic and emotional research—spanning spaces, materials, markets, and user experience—the studio transforms clients’ ideas and inspirations into design projects that promote a unique brand vision.
“We seek authenticity in every project, absorbing the context in which we immerse ourselves to convey a message reinterpreted through our sensibilities.”
The diverse backgrounds and individual experiences of Raquel and Andrea influence one another, enabling them to weave their personal interpretations into the studio’s work with a creative quality that incorporates different yet complementary design disciplines.
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Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
Order I
The theme of marks in a variety of facets returns and dominates the world of design. Nervous lines broken by regular geometries with optical suggestions, the search for a global order through the freedom of the drawing style. The rebellion of the single embodied in the system’s set of rules.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
Order II
The theme of marks in a variety of facets returns and dominates the world of design. Nervous lines broken by regular geometries with optical suggestions, the search for a global order through the freedom of the drawing style. The rebellion of the single embodied in the system’s set of rules.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
Order III
The theme of marks in a variety of facets returns and dominates the world of design. Nervous lines broken by regular geometries with optical suggestions, the search for a global order through the freedom of the drawing style. The rebellion of the single embodied in the system’s set of rules.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
Uncontrolled I
Through a series of wallpapers, the designers explore the theme of uncontrolled, instinctive marks that creates a sequence of random, disorganized brushstrokes. Minimal lines alternate with thicker incomplete brushstrokes, as if they wished to leave something suspended. The contrasting black and white colours reinforce the conceptual nature of the collection.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
Uncontrolled II
Through a series of wallpapers, the designers explore the theme of uncontrolled, instinctive marks that creates a sequence of random, disorganized brushstrokes. Minimal lines alternate with thicker incomplete brushstrokes, as if they wished to leave something suspended. The contrasting black and white colours reinforce the conceptual nature of the collection.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
Uncontrolled III
Through a series of wallpapers, the designers explore the theme of uncontrolled, instinctive marks that creates a sequence of random, disorganized brushstrokes. Minimal lines alternate with thicker incomplete brushstrokes, as if they wished to leave something suspended. The contrasting black and white colours reinforce the conceptual nature of the collection.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
Uncontrolled IV
Through a series of wallpapers, the designers explore the theme of uncontrolled, instinctive marks that creates a sequence of random, disorganized brushstrokes. Minimal lines alternate with thicker incomplete brushstrokes, as if they wished to leave something suspended. The contrasting black and white colours reinforce the conceptual nature of the collection.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
Uncontrolled V
Through a series of wallpapers, the designers explore the theme of uncontrolled, instinctive marks that creates a sequence of random, disorganized brushstrokes. Minimal lines alternate with thicker incomplete brushstrokes, as if they wished to leave something suspended. The contrasting black and white colours reinforce the conceptual nature of the collection.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
METROPOLIS I
A tribute to Bauhaus revolutionary geometries, its structurereminds one of the silent cinema masterpieces from the 1920s.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
METROPOLIS II
A tribute to Bauhaus revolutionary geometries, its structurereminds one of the silent cinema masterpieces from the 1920s.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
METROPOLIS III
A tribute to Bauhaus revolutionary geometries, its structurereminds one of the silent cinema masterpieces from the 1920s.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
METROPOLIS IV
A tribute to Bauhaus revolutionary geometries, its structurereminds one of the silent cinema masterpieces from the 1920s.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
SHADOW I
The gradient synthesizes the transition from light to shadow a progressive reduction of colour that slowly reduces its intensity until it disappears completely leaving room only for the materiality of the base to emerge. This study on colour and its absence, creates this shade which can be approached vertically and horizontally and can be used like a “tile” of a macro pattern of light and shade.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
SHADOW II
The gradient synthesizes the transition from light to shadow a progressive reduction of colour that slowly reduces its intensity until it disappears completely leaving room only for the materiality of the base to emerge. This study on colour and its absence, creates this shade which can be approached vertically and horizontally and can be used like a “tile” of a macro pattern of light and shade.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
TRACK I
Embroideries and ethnic-inspired micro-patterns cross the wall without filling it up, slightly attributing the world of Maasai, when cleared of colour it gives movement and elegance to the layout
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
TRACK II
Embroideries and ethnic-inspired micro-patterns cross the wall without filling it up, slightly attributing the world of Maasai, when cleared of colour it gives movement and elegance to the layout
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
ANTITESI QUADRIFLORA
Antitesi, is a series of wallpapers exploring the theme of opposites: dimensions, materials, different gestures that come into contact by dividing the space of a wall: the soft, hand-drawn signs of the upper part, they collide with the decisive, graphic patterns of the lower part.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
ANTITESI FLORICHECK
Antitesi, is a series of wallpapers exploring the theme of opposites: dimensions, materials, different gestures that come into contact by dividing the space of a wall: the soft, hand-drawn signs of the upper part, they collide with the decisive, graphic patterns of the lower part.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
ANTITESI MACROBLACK
Antitesi, is a series of wallpapers exploring the theme of opposites: dimensions, materials, different gestures that come into contact by dividing the space of a wall: the soft, hand-drawn signs of the upper part, they collide with the decisive, graphic patterns of the lower part.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
ANTITESI TEXTONE
Antitesi, is a series of wallpapers exploring the theme of opposites: dimensions, materials, different gestures that come into contact by dividing the space of a wall: the soft, hand-drawn signs of the upper part, they collide with the decisive, graphic patterns of the lower part.
Designer: Ludovica & Roberto Palomba
ANTITESI MARBLESCRATCH
Antitesi, is a series of wallpapers exploring the theme of opposites: dimensions, materials, different gestures that come into contact by dividing the space of a wall: the soft, hand-drawn signs of the upper part, they collide with the decisive, graphic patterns of the lower part.
Designer: /Ar O/ Studio
MAGNETIC DANCER
A background inspired by the lines of a magnetic field, it creates an abstract terrain populated by contrasting elements such as, dancing women, vintage objects or jockeys riding virtual waves. This results in a painting where energy and matter are blended together.
Designer: /Ar O/ Studio
LIGHTHOUSE
The superimposition of two layers creates a pattern that resembles light waves or strokes on the magnetic spectrum. Just like a lighthouse that has been synthesized by playing with the superimposition of different layers, creating a dance of the elements, shapes and colours.
Designer: /Ar O/ Studio
PANORAMA MARE
A journey within has the immense possibility of exploring unknown places without leaving your room, through the evocative power of memories which is a source of creative re-elaboration. It is the cure for an inability to travel and allows us not only to relive an experience, but to travel unexplored inner paths. Imagination becomes a very powerful weapon of escape from everyday life and from the feeling of “missing out.”
Designer: /Ar O/ Studio
PANORAMA MONTAGNA
A journey within has the immense possibility of exploring unknown places without leaving your room, through the evocative power of memories which is a source of creative re-elaboration. It is the cure for an inability to travel and allows us not only to relive an experience, but to travel unexplored inner paths. Imagination becomes a very powerful weapon of escape from everyday life and from the feeling of “missing out.”
Designer: /Ar O/ Studio
PANORAMA CITY
A journey within has the immense possibility of exploring unknown places without leaving your room, through the evocative power of memories which is a source of creative re-elaboration. It is the cure for an inability to travel and allows us not only to relive an experience, but to travel unexplored inner paths. Imagination becomes a very powerful weapon of escape from everyday life and from the feeling of “missing out.”
Designer: /Ar O/ Studio
SOTTOVETRO
Watching the landscape through a screen-printed glass at different times of the day, from dawn to dusk. The shapes fade away, leaving palettes of mixed colours, shaped by the light.
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STATIC SIGNAL
A landscape as seen from a distance. Here the rain is captured in an instant – it overlaps the landscape to create a fragmented view that breaks down the image into tiny coloured strokes, as if reality itself was fading away.
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TEMPESTA
Raindrops dancing in the wind, swaying in space. The light reflections creates multiple waves of colours and lines.
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VENTAME I
“To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.” Italo Calvino, 1979, If on a winter’s night a traveler.
Designer: /Ar O/ Studio
VENTAME II
“To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.” Italo Calvino, 1979, If on a winter’s night a traveler.
Designer: /Ar O/ Studio
VENTAME III
“To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.” Italo Calvino, 1979, If on a winter’s night a traveler.
Designer: /Ar O/ Studio
VENTAME IV
“To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.” Italo Calvino, 1979, If on a winter’s night a traveler.
Designer: /Ar O/ Studio
WANDERLUST SFERE
Physical space is no longer a place of confinement buta shrine to our wandering imagination that opens us toun contaminated landscapes and unknown continents. Time becomes a fragmented dimension where ideas continue to live. Thoughts overlap and coexist becomingcolours, shapes, micro-patterns and characters repeated in time and space like a constant thought.
Designer: /Ar O/ Studio
WANDERLUST CILINDRI
Physical space is no longer a place of confinement buta shrine to our wandering imagination that opens us toun contaminated landscapes and unknown continents. Time becomes a fragmented dimension where ideas continue to live. Thoughts overlap and coexist becoming colours, shapes, micro-patterns and characters repeated in time and space like a constant thought.
