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Mastro

Chair

Afra e Tobia Scarpa, 1980

Mastro was created as a popular chair based on the same structural principle as the Monk chair. The choice of oval, tubular metal and the use of different solutions for the seat and the back (curved plywood, cane and coloured cloth) create an appearance that differs fundamentally from the chair this is based on.

Design Afra e Tobia Scarpa, 1980

Design

Afra e Tobia Scarpa

Protagonists of 20th century Italian design and culture Tobia Scarpa (born in Venice in 1935) and his wife Afra Bianchin (1937-2011) both graduated from the IUAV in Venice in 1969. Multifaceted and curious designers, they have dealt with architecture, restoration, installations, design, graphics and teaching. Since the 1960s, they have established themselves as leaders in industrial design, through collaboration with a number of important Italian and international companies, including UniFor and Molteni&C. In addition to their industrial product, the work of the Scarpa couple has also involved to the restoration and design of numerous places of sale. Among these, the Corporate Showrooms of UniFor.

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“Knowing how to build is a debt to technique. Knowing how to give a meaning to things I create is a debt to logic required by the forms”

Afra e Tobia Scarpa

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