APS Designs is an interdisciplinary studio designing spaces, objects and experiences with timeless clarity.

Founded by Antonio Pio Saracino, an Italian designer and artist with a professional license in architecture in Italy, APS Designs is a New York–based interdisciplinary design studio working across design, interiors, public art, and the built environment. Guided by research, narrative, and material intelligence, APS Designs shapes spaces, objects, and experiences with presence, meaning, and identity.

  • APS Designs is a multidisciplinary design firm based in New York, founded by Antonio Pio Saracino, an Italian designer and artist with a professional license in architecture in Italy and a member of the Association of Professional Architects in Rome. With satellite offices in Rome, Dubai, and Shanghai, the award-winning studio has earned international recognition through museum acquisitions, public commissions, and a diverse clientele that includes private individuals, corporations, and institutions.

  • APS Designs is a design firm offering services across residential, commercial, cultural, and public art projects, from private interiors and bespoke environments to large-scale developments, branded spaces, and landmark initiatives. The studio’s approach is structured and design-led, grounded in research, concept, design refinement, and close coordination with project teams. Central to the practice is a close reading of cultural context, allowing place, history, and local identity to shape the design process. Working across scales and disciplines, APS Designs creates cohesive environments in which narrative, experience, and form are carefully aligned. Where required by law, APS Designs works in collaboration with licensed professionals for permitting, documentation, and regulatory compliance.

  • At APS Designs, we create elegant environments shaped for contemporary life and informed by a global perspective. We translate our clients’ aspirations into refined spaces defined by clarity, harmony, and artistic sophistication. Our mission is to deliver distinctive design and a highly curated process from concept through completion, uniting narrative, cultural context, material sensitivity, and a commitment to excellence in every project.

Areas of Work

Modern interior with curved white staircase, white walls, large window, gold sculpture, abstract artwork, and contemporary furniture.

  • Private homes, interiors, and custom environments shaped with clarity and refinement.

  • Public-facing spaces defined by identity, experience, and spatial clarity.

  • Creative direction and strategic vision for developments, brands, and landmark initiatives.

Modern architectural monument made of stacked white slabs forming a large arch, illuminated at night against a deep blue sky with trees and a street lamp in the background.

  • Symbolic works conceived for public presence, memory, and place.

Interior view of a staircase with wooden steps and a gold-colored handrail, surrounded by wave-patterned wooden wall panels extending to the ceiling, with modern ceiling lights.

Selected Press

  • “Twice garlanded with American Architecture Awards, Pio Saracino also designs buildings and products. Several of his designs are part of the permanent collections of museums around the world including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, New York's Museum of Art and Design, and the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney.”
    — AD Middle East

  • "He's among the most prolific italian industrial designers abroad and has been beatified by serial accolades. Antonio Pio Saracino, pugliese via New York, has won four Interior Design Magazine Future Furniture Awards and was named one of 25 trendsetters by NYC ARTNews”
    —VOGUE Italia

  • “One is the Michelangelo masterpiece, which has been displayed at the gallery since 1873. The other, on a nearby patio, is a modern tribute to the Renaissance sculpture by the Italian architect and designer Antonio Pio Saracino titled "Hero," an apt homage to a work conceived 500 years ago to represent Florentine independence and virtue.” 
    — The New York Times

  • “Architect-designer Antonio Saracino explores technology, nature and us. (..) Much of the Italian-born, New York-based designer's work is inspired by nature and is constructed from spliced segments."
    — ARTnews, New York

  • ""If you want to feel the heartbeat and energy of Italy, powerful and emotional at the same time, simply look at the work of Antonio Pio Saracino. He perfectly understands how to use straight lines for strength and curved lines for softness. His prime concern is the origin of material and form, and how to create new objects from this unusual sense of empathy."
    —Casa Living, South Korea

  • "The works of Saracino are emblematic examples of progressive Italian creativity in these years of nomadic identity, presented to us as true signs of our time. (...) He combines innovation, symbolic force and keen attention to the environment using highly distinctive aesthetic energy."
    — l’ARCA, Italy

Work with Us

APS Designs welcomes collaborations with private clients, developers, institutions, collectors, and strategic partners on new projects. To discuss a commission, partnership, or collaboration, we invite you to get in touch.

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