InBallo Low Table series , designed by Odo Fioravanti for Baleri Italia, champions logistical efficiency and sustainability. This approach leverages pure cellulose cardboard for the table legs, ensuring they are fully recyclable. The tables achieve a cardboard revolution in design, featuring recycled content legs that allow for no tools assembly by the end user, eliminating the need for screws or glue. This modularity also optimizes the entire design for shipping in reduced packaging.
The form of the InBallo Low Table legs emerged from the accidental discovery of a technology used for producing cardboard profiles, typically used to protect and package household appliances. Fioravanti transformed these extremely rigid profiles into legs, which are connected to the metal tabletop via folded clamps. The fluted shape of the legs is a direct result of the profiles’ inherent structure, adding a refined, vertical rhythm to the design.This innovative approach also translates the concept of recycled content legs into the furniture sector.
The tabletop is made of press-formed sheet metal, painted with epoxy powders in specified colors such as RAL 9005 Jet Black, RAL 3003 Ruby Red, or RAL 1013 Off White. The legs consist of self-supporting drawn cardboard, extracted from pure cellulose, which is fully recyclable and free of pollutant residues, available in the “Havana” color. Black wool felt elements are used on the bottom edges of the legs. InBallo Low Table is offered in two square sizes: model OF201 (50 x 50 x 45 cm) and OF202 (75 x 75 x 37 cm).This model also offers the convenience of no tools assembly to simplify the setup process.
Working with cardboard is not new for Baleri Italia. The brand previously produced Luigi Baroli’s Cartoons screen, which was a 1994 Compasso d’Oro award winner, proving its long-standing commitment to material innovation.The InBallo Low Table series’ cardboard revolution marks the continuation of this innovative process
Odo Fioravanti, a graduate of Politecnico di Milano, previously won the 2011 Compasso d’Oro ADI Award for the Frida wooden chair produced by Pedrali. Fioravanti continues his academic work as a member of the Advisory Board for the Design Faculty at Politecnico di Milano University. The InBallo series reflects Baleri Italia’s vision focused on material innovation and sustainability.
