Designer, architect, theoretician and creator, Carlo Scarpa is an essential figure of 20th century art, to the likeness of Frank Lloyd Wright or Le Corbusier. Ripe with honors and awards from around the world, his architectural creations have entered the public psyche.
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Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978)
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Vase en verre soufflé "Tessuto"
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Carlo Scarpa was born in Venice in 1906. His childhood was spent in Vicenza, then Venice where he returned in 1919. Student at the Accademia di Belle Arti, he became friends with architect Vincenzo Rinaldo (1867-1927) whose daughter he married a few years later. He collaborated with Murano glasswork factories while still a young student; from this forst experience, Carlo Scarpa kept an endless taste for the art of glassware, an art form for which he would become one of the most famous experimenters.
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Having graduated in 1926, he began working in the studio of his former teacher Guido Cirilli (1871-1954) and became his assistant. There, he was taught the skills of an architect and developed an eye for details and the quality of the materials used. He supported his mentor as a lecturer at the Instituto Superiore di Architettura in Venice and discovered a vocation for teaching. Theorization and the transmission of knowledge will be an essential part of his life.
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Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978)
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Vase et coupe en verre soufflé "A Bollicine"
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From 1927 to 1930, he drew for the MVM Cappellin & Co. glassware factory, and got his first orders as an architect and designer. His creative activity was broadened by new artistic encounters. He gravitated within the intellectual circles of Venice and mingled with the poet Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970), the futurist and metaphysical painter Carlo Carrà (1881-1966), and the historian and critic Lionello Venturi (1885-1961), amongst others.
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From 1932 until 1947, he began collaboration with the then young, modern and upcoming Venini glass factory, established since 1921 on the island of Murano, off of Venice. His collaboration with Paolo Venini (1895-1959) opened an extraordinary period in the art of glassware. From a perfect symbiosis between these two visionary minds were born exceptional pieces that are still sought after by collectors. Carlo Scarpa, artistic director of the manufacture, imagined aesthetic and technical innovations that upset a production previously considered artisanal. Under his leadership, the Italian glass industry truly became an art in its own right.
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Tobia Scarpa (né en 1935)
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Deux coupes et deux vases en verre "Battuto"
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Interrupted during the Second World War, his activity as an architect resumed in 1945. In the 1950s, he built the bookshop pavilion in the gardens of the Venice Biennale, and an exhibition space for Olivetti in Venice. His aura is now international.
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Carlo Scarpa died in Japan in 1978, leaving behind a huge legacy.
