QU2 BOOKCASE BY FRANCESCO BALZANO

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QU2 BOOKCASE
BY FRANCESCO BALZANO

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LIMITED EDITION 12
SIGNED, SERIAL NUMBER AND CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
QUATTROCENTO COLLECTION
YEAR 2025

NATURAL DOUGLAS WOOD AND IVORY OR BROWN LEATHER

IN	H	41.3	W	120	D	19.6
CM	H	105	W	305	D	50

CUSTOM SIZE OR FINISH ON REQUEST

HANDCRAFTED IN FRANCE BY ATELIERS SAINT-JACQUES

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The Quattrocento Collection is Balzano’s contemporary homage to the Italian Renaissance of the fifteenth century. Known as the Quattrocento, the period was a turning point when proportion, clarity, and humanist thought fundamentally reshaped art and architecture. Balzano does not recreate Renaissance aesthetics but reimagines the values that animated them for contemporary life: proportional clarity, play with perspective, and the pursuit of timelessness

Each work is built from bold architectural volumes, where right angles, curved volumes, and intersecting planes hold a quiet, deliberate tension. Their restraint recalls the measured harmony of early Renaissance architecture: rational yet deeply sensorial, monumental yet undeniably serene

The collection is crafted primarily in solid Douglas wood, selected for its expressive graining and warm tonal shifts. Broad surfaces act as fields of texture where the life of the tree is fully legible. Against this natural intensity, accents in white leather are introduced with precision, creating moments where softness meets structure, tactility meets geometry. The contrast underscores the collection’s central dialogue: austerity and sensuality held in equilibrium

Handcrafted in France by master artisans, each work reads as a minimalist monument to Renaissance principles. In the stillness of its geometry, the Quattrocento Collection reminds us that purity of form can be as moving as ornament, that simplicity, when mastered, becomes its own kind of grandeur

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Francesco Balzano

Born Paris, France, 1979

An artist based in Paris, Balzano creates minimal, absolute, and timeless furniture, objects, and interiors. He seeks to uncover emotional resonance in the dialogue between shape and material, and to reveal the poetry in the relationship between scale, light, and space. Balzano’s aesthetic vocabulary draws inspiration from the timeless beauty of Venice, Rome, and Florence, where he spent much of his childhood

Guided by the principle that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, Balzano’s work combines noble materials, purity of line, and hyper-detailed architectural references with everyday functionality. With a sense of exquisite tension—between classical forms and contemporary ingenuity, serene nature and innovative urbanity, timeliness and timelessness—his work holds an enigmatic complexity within a deceptively simple aesthetic, inviting the viewer to discover personal and multifaceted meanings

Dedicated to the highest level of craftsmanship that stands the test of time, Balzano works closely with master artisans at Atelier Saint-Jacques and La Societe STRS to create each exquisite work. In strictly limited edition, signed, and numbered, Balzano’s finest collections are available exclusively at STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN

After studying architecture and design at Penninghen, Balzano joined the famed studio of Joseph Dirand, working on prestigious projects around the world. In 2018 he opened his eponymous atelier and started designing custom and limited editions of furniture, while continuing his work as an interior designer for private clients at After Bach, which he founded in 2020. In 2023, he created the photographic collective Sogno Studio, an experimental project on contemporary photographic dialogues. In 2024, he launched Sattio Studio, a new collaborative project in unique and resolutely contemporary furniture, where he serves as artistic director

Balzano’s debut New York solo exhibition, Inizio, opened at STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN New York in 2024. An investigation of the origin of things, Inizio comprises two series of works that epitomize the artist’s values and vision: rooted in simplicity, craftsmanship, and the use of exceptional materials, they are meditative and playful explorations of intimacy and monumentality. In 2025, Balzano was awarded a prestigious residency at the Villa Medici with the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Inizio. STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN New York Gallery. September 4th – October 4th, 2024. View exhibition

2026
Tessuto. Villa Medici. Rome, Italy. April 14th, 2026. View exhibition
Tessuto. STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN New York Gallery. New York, USA. May 14th – June 5th, 2026. View exhibition

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