Elisa Monico

Elisa Monico came to design through practice rather than theory. Her mother worked in the furniture industry, and her sensitivity to space was shaped at home, long before university. Then came Management Engineering, bringing with it a way of thinking she has never left behind: constraints, measurements, sequences. In 2016 she founded Easy Relooking.

She says she lives with two voices—the engineer who puts things in order, and the designer who moves things around. On a rug, this dual nature has few places to hide. A rug is a grid before it is a pattern: every knot is a coordinate, and either the structure holds or it shows.

In her interiors, much of the furniture is custom-designed for a practical reason first and foremost, rather than an aesthetic one—the right dimension almost never exists in a catalog. The rug is that same problem brought to the floor. For this reason, the collection she designed for Panizza does not end with the pieces you see here: every design can be remade in the required size, tailored to the actual floor plan of that room.

The color is hers. The muted blues she has always explored, powder blue in particular, find a material here that holds them better than paint: wool absorbs light instead of reflecting it, and a desaturated gradation on tufted pile never completely flattens out.

The studio

EasyRelooking was founded in 2016 by two engineers who left their profession to design homes. They are a couple both in life and at work, and it shows in their method: a single point of contact from start to finish, with no handoffs halfway through.

The studio primarily works on complete renovations. Not the makeover of a single room, but the entire house managed from the first site inspection to the handover of the keys, including construction site management. This is the part that many studios outsource and that they have chosen to keep in-house: coordinating contractors, timelines, and supplies is not an ancillary service—it is the point where a project either holds together or falls apart.

This is where their habit of bespoke design comes from. Once you have personally taken the measurements of an out-of-square wall, off-the-shelf furniture ceases to be an option—and indeed, much of what goes into the homes they design is custom-made.

Today, the studio handles new renovations and interior design projects for newly built homes, with a growing focus on furnishings that change function over time and materials that withstand daily use without requiring maintenance.

The rug entered this journey for the same reason as everything else: it was needed, and in the right dimensions, it simply did not exist.