Altherr Désile Park

Parentesit

Parentesit brings visual calm and acoustic clarity to workspaces with sculptural panels that soften the space, support focus, and add subtle colour.

Arper

2015

Silence is not the absence of noise, but its focus. Parentesit introduces visual calm and acoustic clarity to contemporary workspaces through wall-mounted or freestanding acoustic panels. Sculptural yet unobtrusive, it softens the atmosphere, supports concentration, and inited to play with colour to centre the space.

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Design

Lievore Altherr Molina

Client

Arper, Italy

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FOCUSED SILENCE

Silence is not the absence of noise, but the focus of it. Like looking out to the horizon of the sea, or through a window onto a garden, with Parentesit we searched for a big visual presence that centers the space without overwhelming it —a sculptural gesture that is also invisibly functional.

Parentesit was developed to bring visual calmness and acoustic clarity to contemporary workspaces. The panel softens the atmosphere, supports concentration, and brings a quiet sense of comfort to shared or individual spaces.

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BOLD AND CONSIDERED

Parentesit’s bold geometric forms— circle, square, and oval—are both elemental shapes and distinctive design signatures. Each form can stand alone or be combined to create a stronger spatial rhythm, and through colour and lines they can shift in character, becoming either understated or quietly playful.

The floor-standing panels extend this logic into three dimensions, functioning as background elements that absorb and soften a space, or as informal dividers that define territory without resorting to walls. Like the wall-mounted version, they are configurable across a wide range of fabrics and colour combinations, so that each installation reads as considered and specific to its context rather than generic or repeated.

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THE SIMPLE AND THE COMPLEX

Parentesit wall panels carries more than fabric and form. Each panel can be customised with an integrated speaker — controlled via a dedicated app — and an ambient backlight with adjustable intensity, extending its role well beyond acoustic performance. All of this is resolved within a shape of striking simplicity — circle, square, or oval — without a single visible technical element compromising the panel's calm, graphic presence.

Shape and colour, multiplied and rotated, shift a room from understated to boldly architectural. Parentesit does not decorate — it defines. It absorbs noise, diffuses light, and sets the emotional register of a space with the silent confidence of a form that knows exactly what it is. The result is an atmosphere that feels considered without being designed to be noticed.

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Awards

  • HD Awards, USA

  • Record Product Award, USA

  • Best of Year Awards, USA

  • Interior Design Magazine HiP Honoree Award , USA

  • Metropolis Likes, USA

  • Metropolis Likes, USA

  • Iconic Awards, Germany

  • Interior Design Magazine's HiP Awards, USA

  • CREATIVE DIRECTION

    Lievore Altherr Molina

  • PRODUCT DESIGN

    Lievore Altherr Molina

  • ART DIRECTION

    Lievore Altherr Molina

  • IMAGERY

    Salva López, Gerhard Kellermann, Giulio Gherardi

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