Rialto
- Description
- Designer Bio
Realised in the 1970s, by Carlo
Scarpa for his own home, this bookcase was later reworked at the request of
Dino Gavina to make it suitable for industrial manufacture. The individual
units are linked by a spacer insert. This has become the iconic feature of the
design. Almost as distinctive is the central block, which is composed of
shelves or small drawers, featuring a matte finish. The units are available in
veneered ashwood in a natural or black-stain; alternatively, in lacquered matte
black.
| About Designer | |
|---|---|
Carlo Scarpa |
From architecture to works in glass, from design
projects to preparing museum exhibitions, the work of Carlo Scarpa has always
stood out in the unmistakable way in which it manages to bring together his love
for materials, his attention to detail and his masterly elaboration of organic
and Wrightian poetics. Architect, designer and artist, Scarpa left the Venice
Academy of Art in 1926 and began professional work, but continued to visit
craftsmen’s’ workshops and Venetian master glassworkers. For twenty years,
right up until the second half of the Forties, he received numerous commissions
to design, convert prepare buildings. |
