After graduation Федерико Карандини He lived in New York and worked in design studios. In 2004 he was invited to ITALIAN BALERIES to the position of art director. He immediately agreed and moved to Milan.

SALON: Do you have a creative profession?

- Of course. I work with designers, discuss with them new projects, think out how beautifully and creatively present new things in showrooms and at international exhibitions. I make and design our website, organize image shooting. In general, I do everything that can work in the name of the company. This, you know, is one big job in which many small ones fit.

S: Tell us about your new projects.

- This year, an updated version of Jeff Miller's Littlebig chair and a fantastic St. Petersburg couch have appeared. Martin by Arik Levy design. At the upcoming Milan exhibition we will show a new work by Javier Lust, but for now this is a top secret. To date ITALIAN BALERIES - my only project, there is no time for anything else. I hope that in 2009 or 2010, as a designer, I will invent my own thing.

S: Designers who work with the company ITALIAN BALERIES, all the time experimenting with color and materials. What will be fashionable this year?

- As for the materials, it is still glass, wood, metal and plastic. Of the colors, all shades of green and all the same classic black and white.

S: I want to offer you to come up with an interior with furniture from ITALIAN BALERIES. What would such a house look like?

- You have hit the mark! And I do not need to invent anything. I already live in the interior of ITALIAN BALERIES! In my Milan house, there are Clipt and Mari chairs around the dining table, a huge Obo rack, two Bill couches opposite each other, and in the middle is the Bentz coffee table. In the bedroom is a Gio bed. All these things are adjacent to the furniture of the XV, XVII and XVIII centuries, preserved from my ancestors. I don’t like pure minimalism at all, but I prefer sensible eclecticism. The interior of my apartment in Florence is also a solid mix: the Bentz coffee table is surrounded by chairs of the 18th century and the Flipt chaise lounge by Jeff Miller. The dining table in the dining room is antique, from the monastery, but the chrome-plated Naked chairs are from designer Alberto Coldzani. The library consists of Obo racks. In the kitchen table Sam from Arik Levy. It seems to me that it would not be worthwhile to work as an art director in a company whose furniture you can’t or don’t want to put at home.