In the realm of Art and Design
Immersed in Art and Design
Balthazar is a concept restaurant where simply being there is already a pleasure.
The interiors, tailored with sartorial care by Stefano Guidotti, reveal a warm and refined aesthetic, where every detail finds its place.
The furnishings, created by Baxter – Italian excellence in leather craftsmanship – embrace the space with softness, naturalness, and character.
They are surfaces that speak to the skin, to memory, to touch.
Making the environment even more unique is a living collection of objects and worlds:
the complete Taschen library,
a collection of art, architecture, photography, literature and essays that guests can touch, browse, experience.
This is not decoration:
it is a sensory encounter, a culture that can be breathed, an invitation to be surprised.
And then, there is the music.
Our musicians — solo, duo, or small ensemble — bring a different atmosphere every evening, alive and vibrant.
Their music moves across eras and styles: touching the contemporary, paying homage to the classics, woven together with a modern sensitivity that engages and surprises.
It is a soundtrack that changes, breathes, adapts, capable of turning the evening into a story, a celebration, a memory.
A music that does not simply accompany: it happens.
And makes Balthazar vibrate like a heartbeat in motion.
Paolo Troilo
Paolo Troilo is much more than an artist: he is a warm, familiar presence.
A friend of the house, a spirit who returns, a gaze that sees the invisible.
He paints with his fingers.
He does not use brushes.
The skin is in direct contact with color.
It is an ancient, primal, personal gesture: like touching life to feel it fully.
His technique — known as finger painting — transforms matter into movement, light into muscle, emotion into strength.
Each work seems to vibrate, breathe, step toward you.
His paintings often feature intense, powerful bodies, male figures that are not just anatomy, but emotional landscapes: tension, desire, struggle, expression, release.
They speak of fragility and courage at once, of an energy that cannot be held back.
Troilo does not paint to describe: he paints to feel.
And whoever looks inevitably feels as well.
His works are displayed at Balthazar not to decorate, but to inhabit the space, to let it pulse like a living organism.
Like all true art, his demands nothing: it fills the space with life.
An energy that cannot be explained.
You recognize it.
And it remains.
Simon Berger
Simon Berger is an artist who works with the fragility of material in a way few in the world can.
His art begins with glass — a material that seems immovable, untouchable — and transforms it into emotion, tension, movement.
He uses a hammer, not a brush.
He strikes the glass with delicate, precise intention, letting fractures become lines, breaks become gazes, faces, souls.
It is an art that lives in paradox:
from fracture, beauty is born;
from impact, detail emerges;
from fragility — strength.
His works appear to rise from the glass like suspended apparitions, figures existing at the boundary between presence and dream.
At Balthazar, his creations are not simply displayed: they resonate.
They tune themselves to the atmosphere of the place, to its rhythm, its intensity.
They are emotional mirrors: each person sees something different, something they perhaps did not know they carried.
Like Paolo, Simon is part of the Balthazar family: an artist who does not decorate, but reveals.
Who does not show, but unveils.
An art that invites you to look closer.
Design – Baxter Furnishings
Balthazar’s design is not mere setting: it is atmosphere, skin, breath.
The furnishings by Baxter — masters of Italian leather — embrace the space like a second skin, soft, welcoming, alive.
They are surfaces that carry the traces of time, that warm with touch, that bear the natural elegance of things made well, with love, skill, and expert hands.
The Story of Baxter
This is the story of the emotion that Italian design can evoke.
A story where aesthetics and memory intertwine, an harmonious balance of elements like a perfect recipe, capable of transforming a place into an experience.
These furnishings are not mere objects — but extensions of the body and memory: leather, living matter that shapes, welcomes, breathes.
They are like special garments, carrying the signs of time while also designing the future.
It is the story of a family and two visionary entrepreneurs, Luigi and Paolo Bestetti, who transformed a material into a language, a craft into an identity.
A story carrying the DNA of Italian family companies: born from love for a material, and grown through the culture of craftsmanship, of hands that make, touch, listen.
Everything begins with leather, and evolves through the most precious value: people — the human talent that works, creates, questions, and grows every day.
A relatively young story — founded in 1990 — yet rooted in a heritage centuries old, nourished by the fertile land of Brianza, cradle of Italian furniture excellence — yesterday for aristocracy, then for the great bourgeoisie, and today for those who love true beauty.
An Italian story, yes, but one that speaks to the world: finding its truest voice in the art of working leather, creating unique, living collections, recognizable at first touch.
A story that, like great artworks, is not only seen.
It is felt.
It is lived.
It is remembered.
The Libelle
The Libelle bookcase, awarded for its design, here becomes a bottle display and a chest of small wonders: a container of ideas, objects, stories.
It does not simply furnish — it enchants.
It is a detail that captures the eye and adds a touch of magic to the space, that subtle ripple of style that makes all the difference.