Considering how hard is to please everyone I think it is a good start. The color scheme is much better than the "omg-this-is-so-depressing" grey that we have right now. And the picture plus the boxes look like they have the right size. I'm not so sure about the statements size, but if they can be shown collapsed, ok.
As Thomas I also miss a collection of all references in a box on the right that could be drag and dropped on any item.
And some sorting options, like alphabetical, by property number, or some other basic property sorting (metadata properties on top).
The only thing I'm not convinced about is the edition of label/alias statements. Labels/aliases should be edited as statements so we can have more variety and add qualifiers and references to them.
Micru