DESIGN AGENCY STUDIOPEPE was founded in Milan in 2006. Quirky, stylish, driven by its own distinctive vision, it is the brainchild of Chiara di Pinto and Arianna Lelli Mami, graduates of Milan’s Polytechnic University, who had to fly around the world to Mexico to meet. Their multidisciplinary studio work encompasses art direction, styling, interior design and product design, with a strong vein of story-telling drawing everything together. Last autumn the studio contributed ‘Pink Moon’, a distinctly feminine and cinematic pairing of table and chairs, to Made Together Apart: Connected, a project initiated by the American Hardwood Export Council and The Design Museum in London.

In October they launched their fourth Manifesto Project online, a filmic exploration of ideas and emotions in a futuristic virtual setting, featuring their own designed products. ‘De-siderio’, meaning desire in Italian, holds within it the two ideas of a lack of something and of resembling the stars – di Pinto and Lelli Mami are convinced that it is their hungry curiosity that drives their achievement.