Miss

Chair

Afra e Tobia Scarpa, 1986

Deeply rooted in traditional craftsmanship, Miss is both memory and experimentation. The shape presents a rhythmic system of lines with a soft, flowing design. The legs are thin and spread apart for stability. The front ones bend to form the armrests and follow the curve of the backrest. The rear ones reach the backrest from behind, to prop it up. The seat fits between the lines and connects them.

Design Afra e Tobia Scarpa, 1986

“What is most striking about this is the line; not line as in the current sense of a style but because the form is reduced to a linear chord or rhythm”.

- Daniele Vitale

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