[Enrico Baleri][1] was born in Albino, Bergamo, in 1942. In 1965, while still a student of architecture, he opened the Baleri Designers furnishing shop in Bergamo at the invitation of Dino Gavina. Enrico Baleri designs furniture, lamps and objects for Gavina, Flos, Knoll International and Alias, a company that he established in 1979 and where he had the position of art director up to 1983. He founded Baleri Italia in 1984 together with Marilisa Baleri Decimo and worked with Hollein, Mendini and with the young up and coming designers Starck, Dalisi, Wettstein and others to create a joint collection. He was chairman of the Casa Malaparte Association from 1989 to 1992 and used the business communication resources and tools to achieve the cultural revaluation of the famous document on architecture of the island of Capri. In 1994, Enrico Baleri established the Italian AALTO/Viipuri Committee, at the invitation of the Alvar Aalto Foundation of Helsinki, and involved friends, companies and professionals in an initiative in favour of the Viipuri Library. In 1994 Enrico Baleri established Gloria Srl for which he designed a number of highly successful products. In 2004 he transferred the entrepreneurial role in Baleri Italia to Nino Cerruti and became the art director of eb&c, the Centro Ricerche Enrico Baleri based in Bergamo and in Milan. He has been engaging in activities in the world of communication, architecture, furnishing and industrial design, working with international industries, including Baleri Itali.

Enrico Baleri is at ESAD to present a lecture on Habitar com Juízo, under the MA in Interior Design.

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