Mop

Modular Bookcase

Afra e Tobia Scarpa, 1974

Mop is the second life of an exquisite material: wood. Scraps from veneer making are used to create a new piece of furniture with two elements - a shelf and a support. The longitudinal edges are rounded while the short sides are completed with solid, shaped wood. The woods follow one another casually and create fantastic chromatic effects.

Design Afra e Tobia Scarpa, 1974

“Naturally that wood was noble wood, because veneering always involved select woods. It had, as you might say, the voice of authenticity. The way the woods worked together was amazing”

- Tobia Scarpa

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.

Complete biography

“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