As part of Milan Design Week, Balmaceda Studio unveiled Jardines (Gardens), a collection suspended between textile art, botanical gestures, and landscape memory. Inspired by the work of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, the series draws from close observation of the natural world to construct a tapestry-based geography of its own.

Handwoven in Nepal, the pieces don’t aim to replicate gardens—they seek to translate them. Each one echoes Burle Marx’s organic paths, his vegetal curves, and his impulse to merge art and ecology.

The color palette embodies the unstable balance of tropical life: vibrant greens, disruptive reds, and settling ochres. Embroidery in thread and beadwork invites a tactile reading of the exotic, as if each stitch were a seed beginning to germinate. Meanwhile, the blown-glass vases explore the ephemeral—organic forms that capture fleeting moments of motion.

At Il Vicolo’s exhibition space, Balmaceda Studio’s collection unfolded like a constellation of presences, delicately rooted in a poetic dialogue between landscape, memory, and materiality.

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