Mexican design gallery Studio 84 and Unno Gallery have presented Inner Stage, a collection of works by designers including Sabine Marcelis and glassworks studio 6AM, at a local ballet theatre for Mexico City art week 2026.
For the Inner Stage presentation, rugs, lighting elements, screens, and other furniture pieces were on display in the lobby and on the stage of Escuela del Ballet Folklórico de México (Escuela del Ballet), a Brutalist building designed by architect Agustín Hernández Navarro.
Studio 84 has presented a collection of pieces at Escuela del Ballet Folklórico de México
The show was further activated by female folkloric dancers accompanied by musicians from the Banda Mixteca de Santa Cecilia, who danced around the objects in a piece choreographed by Mexican artist Mauricio Ascencio.
According to Studio 84 and Unno Gallery, both of which were founded by interior designer Maria Dolores Uribe, Inner Stage explored “femininity”.
The show included rugs by CC-Tapis and glassworks by 6:AM in the lobby
“The works explore femininity through intimate spaces associated with retreat, contemplation, and pause, as well as through the objects that inhabit them,” said the organisers.
“The dancers interact with the designers’ pieces, revealing femininity as a force of exchange, capable of receiving, sustaining, and transforming.”
A series of furniture vignettes was displayed on a theatre stage
In the lobby of Escuela del Ballet, Italian glassworks company 6AM presented Murano glass side tables from its 1/1/1 sculpture series, as well as screen-printed lattimo glass ‘Exit’ signs, informed by similar safety signs of the 1920s.
In the same space, CC-Tapis presented rug collaborations with designers Sabine Marelis and Scarlett Rouge, which were placed on a grand stair and suspended from the ceiling, respectively.
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On the theatre stage, three vignettes by local designers Alana Burns, Lucía Echavarría and Andrea Vargas Dieppa were presented under static spotlights.
The main pieces exhibited were a daybed by Burns, a “dressing room” with a folding screen by Echavarría, and a monolithic, wooden rocking chair by Dieppa.
The show was informed by “femininity”
According to the team, the three vienegttes included “contemplative objects” and areas for “meditative space”.
“Positioned between tradition and contemporaneity, the pieces examine how design mediates between necessity and desire, shaping both emotional experience and material presence,” said Studio 84.
Inner Stage was one of many shows on during this year’s Mexico City art week, including a collection of furniture at AGO Projects and a local showrooom in a historic mansion filled with works by British designer Lee Broom.
The photography is by Fernando Farfán.
Inner Stage is on show at Escuela del Ballet Folklórico de México from 2 to 4 February for Mexico City art week. For more global exhibitions in architecture and design, visit Dezeen Events Guide.
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