Annie Pempinello is a Neapolitan artist who has lived in Rome, Milan, Marseille, and currently lives between Italy, France and Holland.

Her main characteristic is curiosity, which led her to graduate in Classical Literature to become an archaeologist, but at the same time she developed a great passion for theatre and trained and worked with the greatest Italian artists (Giorgio Albertazzi, Luca Archibugi, Carmelo Bene, Gennadi Nikolaevic Bogdanov, Enrico Caria, Federica Felice, Igor Grcko, Giovanna Mori, Maurizio Scaparro, Giulio Scarpati, Martin Stewart).

She has never stopped dedicating herself to poetry, and has in fact published two books, Il paroliere, winner of the Annamaria Ortese prize, and Brevima Dies (both for Guida editore).

Her interest in the figurative arts, decor and furniture led her to design the Prêt à partir collection.

The project was born in Provence, from what Peter Brook called a ‘formless impulse’. The inspiration for the striped designs, however, has its roots in childhood, in the hypnotic watching his father choose fabric cuts to have his shirts made, strictly handmade by the shirt-maker, a custom still widespread in Naples.