Mix

Office Chair

Afra e Tobia Scarpa, 1975

Mix is a family of easy chairs for executive offices, workspaces, conference rooms and waiting areas. It features a revolutionary system for connecting the body of the seat and the supportive frame. Two pieces in die-cast aluminium alloy are joined using a metal plate, which has also been die cast. The outcome is a gondola-style element that hooks onto the sides of the seat.

Design Afra e Tobia Scarpa, 1975

The outcome is a gondola-style element that hooks onto the sides of the seat. The sturdy Mix chair can be disassembled and its seat follows body movements to ensure complete comfort.

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