Kirk, one of Porada’s most iconic and renowned sofas, is reintroduced in the 2025 collection with a series of new features aimed at modernizing product details. The sofa’s silhouette remains essentially the same, featuring a refined shaped base in solid Canaletta walnut supported by elegant bronze metal feet, which houses the upholstered piece. Designed to offer maximum compositional freedom, especially for interior design projects, Kirk consists of modular seating that allows the various elements to be aggregated and distributed according to the inhabitant’s needs. To enhance product functionality, new specific modularities are introduced. The seats and backs are padded with polyurethane foam to ensure high comfort levels, while the covers are completely removable and can be selected from all fabrics in the collection, including the new Hikari line. In the 2025 collection, the piping can also be contrasting, highlighting the geometric lines of the sofa’s silhouette and emphasizing the tailoring details.
Since 2011 he has been in charge of product development director and designer at Porada. He was born in Cantù (Como) in 1967, in his twenties he studied at IPSIA G. Meroni of Lissone, near Milan, as a technician for the furniture and design industry.
In 1990 he obtained a master’s degree in Industrial Design at Instituto Europeo di Design in Milan. After graduation, Ballabio worked for the Paolo Nava design practice and then for Paola Navone as senior designer. During his career he designed many products, some of which can be found exhibited at the Triennale in Milano. For Porada he designed many of the most popular products, including the highly successful Ziggy collection. What makes its design unique is the steadily search for the perfect combination of aesthetics and functionality.
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