Baleri Italia launched a new product line and a new fabric collection in the newly refurbished showroom in Milan 2005, from designers Ilse Crawford, Arik Levy, Jeff Miller, Marcel Wanders, Hannes Wettstein and eb&c.
The Baleri Italia home embraces warmth and sensuous, luminous color. The showroom itself has been completely remodeled, designed by Ilse Crawford with the theme "Boy Meets Girl".
Image left: view of the facade of the showroom at the Baleri Italia opening party
Ballerina by Marcel Wanders (image right) is inspired by ballerinas moving like a flock of sunlit swans.
Wanders said: "We take over and use the Ballerina as an inspiration for our life-dance. We create the new choreagraphy with our our gentle moodswings, our intuitive symbiotic behaviour, our steps grow out to be the lovestories of the future. We are the heros, the princess, the good challenging evil, we are the swans."
Crawford has created three installations representing three home environments - one that a man would decorate, one that a woman would decorate and one that a man and woman would decorate together. The showroom creates a metaphor in a Baleri world in which men and women possess different complementary values and attributes and decorate their home together.
Crawford said: "In this increasingly virtual world, we have a greater need for physicality: to touch, see and hear."
Tatino (image left) is a playful seating option, fun and childish in bright colours and touchable fabrics, soft and yielding when sat upon.
