Carlo Scarpa Furniture

Carlo Scarpa "Samo" oval table for Simon Gavina, white Carrara marble, Italy, 1971. The Scarpa's way of thinking the architecture is particularly visible in this piece. The “Samo” d...

This Italian dining table from the 1970s exudes timeless elegance and beauty. It was designed by perhaps one of the prominent Italian modernist designers of the last century. What im...

Carlo Scarpa (Italy, 1906-1978), "Battuto" vase, 1942, mouth blown glass and general facet cut, acid mark on base reads "Venini Murano", height ca. 18.5 cm. Excellent condition.

Dining table mod. Delfi designed by Carlo Scarpa and Marcel Breuer for Gavina. Composed of two sculptural bases and a rectangular top 4 cm thick. Made in Carrara marble. Italy 1968. ...

All the rigor and geometry of the great Italian designer Carlo Scarpa are expressed in this splendid and rare set of 6 wooden chairs made for Gavina in the early 1970s. An essential...

Carlo Scarpa 'Battuto' Vase, c. 1938 Execution: Venini & C. Cased glass, green. Signed: Venini murano (acid stamp). Measures: H : 27 cm (10.6") Overall Very good condition ...

This Italian dining table from the 1970s exudes timeless elegance and beauty. It was designed by perhaps one of the prominent Italian modernist designers of the last century. What im...

Called "Poliedri" in Italian and known as "Polyhedral" in English, this design was created by Carlos Scarpa (1906-1978) for Venini when he was their art...

Italian modern round marble table Samo by Carlo Scarpa for Simon Gavina, 1970s Dining table mod. Samo in white arabesque marble, with round t...

A great classic of Carlo Scarpa's creations for Venini is the system of elements called Poliedri: a clever and elegant system for modeling lighting in shapes from time to time suited...

Samo table designed by Carlo Scarpa in Carrara marble. Two layered pillars as legs. Oval thick tabletop. Bibliography: Fondazione Scientifica Querini Stampalia, “Dino Gavina, col...

Suspension lamp model “Poliedri” designed by Carlo Scarpa and edited by Venini. Structure made of lacquered metal composed of unique pieces in Murano glass. Italy 1950s. Carlos Scarpa's Poliedri lamps...

Carlo Scarpa "Argo" oval table for Simon Gavina, Roman travertine, Italy, 1975. The "Argo" travertine console-table is part of the 'Ultrarazionale' ...

Carlo Scarpa "Samo" oval table for Simon Gavina, white Carrara marble, Italy, 1971. The Scarpa's way of thinking the architecture is particularly visible in this piece. The “Samo” d...

Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) Art Deco Glass Table Mirror handworked in twisted colourless Murano glass, the spiral design known as “a treccia” after its resemblance to a braid. The glass frame lined with a brass band, secured with a pierced trapezoid clip to the wooden back-plate, with brass folding...

A 'battuto' glass vase by Carlo Scarpa for Venini, circa 1940 Acid-stamped venini murano ITALIA 33 cm in hight Excellent condition see christies 933822 (58750$) Literature: Ba...

Carlo Scarpa Poliedri Chandelier for Venini, Murano, Italy, 1960s. For sale: One exquisite mid-century Venini Murano glass chandelier...

A bottle designed by Carlo Scarpa for Venini in the mid 1930s. The bottle is a very faint blue green color and displays the mezza filigrana method of glass ...

Born in Venice in 1906, Carlo Scarpa studied architecture at the city's Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 1926. He taught architectural drawing at the Academy, where he hel...

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Carlo Scarpa for Simon, 'Gritti' table, stained mahogany, leatherette, Italy, 1973. Made in 1973, this grand table is the result of Carlo Scarpa's architectural sensibility construc...

A pair of Sommerso Bollicine glass bowls by Carlo Scarpa for Venini circa mid 1930s Vibrant green glass with interior bubbles and gold leaf inclusions Acid etched stamp to larger M...

A fine Italian Mid Century Modern glass "Mezza Filigrana" vanity mirror designed by, Carlo Scarpa for Venini. The mirror frame is internally decorated with pink lattice decoration an...

VENINI - CARLO SCARPA / pulegoso workmanship in murano glass. 1930s ,emerald green color

Pair of large Art Deco Sconces with polyhedral shaped blown glass ornaments. Designed by Carlo Scarpa for Venini Italy and made circa 1950. In perfect working condition and takes E-1...

Architectural dining table designed by Carlo Scarpa in 1968. The design was part of the 'Ultrarazionale' collection, initiated by Dino Gavina in collaboration with Carlo Scarpa in 19...

Carlo Scarpa for Venini ceiling light Model 5258 Italy 1940s Handblown glass, steel, aluminum. Exquisite glass making technique. Takes one medium base bulb. Complimentary US rewiring...

Venini Battuto bicolor vase in light green/red by Carlo Scarpa. Numbered Edition. Blown handmade glass, realized with the “Incalmo” technique, then cut....

Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978), 'A Bugne corroso' vase, ca. 1936 model no. 4100 cylindrical with nubs, flashed glass, uncoloured and green, etched in a technique reminiscent of ice-glass (...

Carlo Scarpa for Venini 1906 - 1978 “Pennellate” vase, 1942 Carlo Scarpa for Venini “Pennellate” vase 1942 While the world was at war in 1942, Scarpa and Venini produced a rare ser...

Sarpi table designed by Carlo Scarpa for Simon Gavina with frame in brushed stainless steel, held together with visible recessed screws, Bologna, Italy, 1970. Glass table top with ro...

Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978), 'A Bugne corroso' vase, ca. 1936 model no. 4100 cylindrical with nubs, flashed glass, uncoloured and green, etched in a technique reminiscent of ice-glass (...

In these murrineworks, purity of form and essential geometry blend together to create rare, precious and timeless objects, just like the art of ancient Rome. In his quest for new gla...

Italian modern Three-seater sofa Cornaro by Carlo Scarpa for Simon Gavina, 1980s Iconic and vintage three-seater sofa mod. Cornaro with round section structure in black painted solid...

Italian modern Three-seater sofa Cornaro by Carlo Scarpa for Simon Gavina, 1980s Iconic and vintage three-seater sofa mod. Cornaro with round section structure in black painted solid...

Venini Murrine Romane vase in multi-color by Carlo Scarpa. Numbered Edition. These Murrine are called “roman” due to their graphic signs and because the...

A very beautiful and original Murano chandelier designed by Italian architect Carlo Scarpa for Venini Murano. With 18 lights. With soft colored and transparent slightly iridescent mo...

Venini Murrine Romane bowl in multicolor by Carlo Scarpa. Numbered Edition. These Murrine are called “roman” due to their graphic signs and because they...

Impressive mirror, executed in very rare brown glass “a treccia” (large twisting). Stamped “Venini Murano” and “Made in Italy”. Perfect condition.

The Scarpa's way of thinking the architecture is particularly visible in this piece. The “Samo” dining table, designed in 1971 for 'Ultrarazionale' collection by Simon Gavina, consis...

Pair of wall lights with four lightpoints, Poliedri model designed by Carlo Scarpa, edited by Venini. Composed by Murano crystal pieces over a structure made in white lacquer metal. ...

Chandelier with green/ clear glass, designed by Carlo Scarpa, Italy. Originally designed for Venini. Polyhedron chandelier with metal frame and polyhedron green and clear glass piec...

Large vase “Mezzafiligrana” by Carlo Scarpa, Venini (Murano), Italy. Very large vase in the shape of a truncated cone, the technique of which called “mezzafiligrana” presents thin ca...

Heavy Vetro Sommerso Vase by Carlo Scarpa for Venini Murano ca. 1930s A vetro sommerso bollicine vase designed by Carlo Scarpa between 1934 and 1...

Carlo Scarpa, 'Battuto' vase, 1940 Hand-blown glass, battuto surface produced by Venini & C., Murano, Italy 24 cm (height) signed with two-line a...

Variegati zigrinati by Carlo Scarpa for Venini 1938 Variegati zigrinati by Carlo Scarpa 1938. one of the very rare pieces, signed Venini Murano. Only Olnick Spanu has one of these. ...

Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978), 'Battuto' vase, 1940 hand-blown glass, battuto surface produced by Venini & C., Murano, Italy signed with two-line acid stamp to underside 'venini murano' ...

Carlo Scarpa Tessuto vase or bottle designed circa 1940 and executed by Venini in 1985. Crafted out of the finest hand blown murano glass in the Tessuto technique with fused glass ca...

“Scuderia” dining table, designed by Carlo Scarpa and produced by the Italian manufacturer Bernini in 1977. Originally, Carlo Scarpa designed the table to restore the stable of Villa Valmarana in Vicenza in 1972. The table features a solid walnut structure. Available also five “Kentucky” dining...

Murrine Opache plates, designed by Carlo Scarpa and manufactured by Venini, are available in four different versions. Handmade glass with “murrine” technique. Numbered edition per ye...

Carlo Scarpa for Venini 1906 - 1978 “Pennellate” vase, 1942 Carlo Scarpa for Venini “Pennellate” vase 1942 While the world was at war in 1942, Scarpa and Venini produced a rare ser...

Gorgeous oval shaped table by Carlo Scarpa in cream travertine marble. Italy, 1970's "Argo" center or dining table designed for the Ultrazionale" collection Single pedestal with w...

Carlo Scarpa ceiling lamp 1938 Ceiling lamp designed by Carlo Scarpa and manufactured by Venini Murano Clear and Lattimo “ a fasce” gla...

Suspension lamp model “Poliedri” designed by Carlo Scarpa and edited by Venini. Structure made of lacquered metal composed of unique pieces in Murano glass. Italy 1950s. Carlos Scarpa's Poliedri lamps...

Italian modern Wooden and glass Bookcase mod. Zibaldone by Carlo Scarpa for Bernini, 1974 Bookcase mod. Zibaldone with structure in veneered wood and glass. This particular bookcase ...

Carlo Scarpa (Italy, 1906-1978), "Battuto" vase, 1942, mouth blown glass and general facet cut, acid mark on base reads "Venini Murano", height ca. 18.5 cm. Excellent condition.

CARLO SCARPA (1906-1978) A RARE 'LATTIMO AURATO' VASE, CIRCA 1934 produced by Venini, hand-blown glass with gold foil inclusions 20 cm. high. 2 line acid stamp. Unfortunately the si...

Italian modern Three-seater sofas Cornaro by Carlo Scarpa for Simon Gavina, 1980s Pair of three-seater sofa mod. Cornaro with round section structure in black painted solid wood. The...

Carlo Scarpa, 'Battuto' vase, 1940 Height 23 cm. Model No. 3922. Gourd shape. Execution: Venini & C., Murano. Deep violet, almost black glass, encased in clear glass, with a hammer-...

Chandelier 1950, Venini Carlo Scarpa structure iron /glass.

Murano Glass Mirror by Carlo Scarpa for Venini, Italy, 1930s

Exquisite pair of authentic Venini wall lights by Carlo Scarpa. Model 'Poliedri'. c1960 Mix of pink and smoke glass. *** These are original 1960s blown glass lights... Not recent!

Model Poliedri chandelier, design Carlo Scarpa, manufactured by Venini, 1960s. Murano glass with painted iron and metal frame. Good vintage condition, patina and minor wear consisten...

Set of 5 mod. 783 “Kentucky” dining chairs, designed by Carlo Scarpa for the Italian manufacturer Bernini in 1977. Structure made from oak and walnut timber. Seats and backrest made from cognac leather. Excellent vintage condition. Carlo Scarpa designed this chair for the “Scuderia” series., the last project he made for Bernini. The architect took inspiration from the “shaker” movement. He designed the chair slightly inclined at the front. This feature allows you to swing backward (until you lean on a wall) and remain in balance. Born in Venice on June 2nd, 1906, Carlo Scarpa began working at a very early age. A year after he had first qualified as an architect in 1926, he began working for the Murano glassmakers Cappellin & Co. in a consultative capacity. From 1927, Carlo Scarpa began to experiment with the Murano glass, and this research not only gave him excellent results here but would also inform his progress for many years to come. Between 1935 and 1937, as he entered his thirties, Carlo Scarpa accepted his first important commission, the renovation of Venice’s Cà Foscari. He adapted the spaces of this stately University building that stands on the Grand Canal banks, creating rooms for the Dean’s offices and a new hall for academic ceremonies; Mario Sironi and Mario De Luigi were charged with doing the restoration work on the frescos. After 1945, Carlo Scarpa found himself constantly busy with new commissions, including various furnishings and designs for the renovation of Venice’s Hotel Bauer and designing a tall building in Padua and a residential area in Feltre, all worth mentioning. One of his key works, despite its relatively modest diminished proportions, was the [bookshop known as the] Padiglione del Libro, which stands in Venice’s Giardini di Castello and clearly shows Scarpa’s passion for the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. In the years which were to follow, after he had met the American architect, Scarpa repeated similar experiments on other occasions, as can be seen, in particular, in the sketches he drew up in 1953 for villa Zoppas in Conegliano, which show some of his most promising work. However, this work unfortunately never came to fruition. Carlo Scarpa later created three museum layouts to prove pivotal in terms of how twentieth-century museums were set up from then on. Between 1955 and 1957, he completed extension work on Treviso’s Gipsoteca Canoviana [the museum that houses Canova’s sculptures] in Possagno, taking a similar experimental approach to the one he used for the Venezuelan Pavilion at [Venice’s] Giardini di Castello which he was building at the same time (1954-56). In Possagno Carlo Scarpa was to create one of his most significant ever works, which inevitably bears comparison with two other museum layouts that he was working on over the same period, those of: – Galleria Nazionale di Sicilia, housed in the Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo (1953-55) – Castelvecchio in Verona (1957- 1974), all of which were highly acclaimed, adding to his growing fame. Two other buildings, which are beautifully arranged in spatial terms, can be added to this long list of key works that were started and, in some cases, even completed during the nineteen fifties. After winning the Olivetti award for architecture in 1956, Scarpa began work in Venice’s Piazza San Marco on an area destined to house products made by the Industrial manufacturers Ivrea. Over the same period (1959-1963), he also worked on the renovation and restoration of the gardens and ground floor of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, which many consider one of his greatest works. While he busied himself working on-site at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Carlo Scarpa also began work building a villa in Udine for the Veritti family. To shed some light on the extent to which his work evolved over the years, it may perhaps be useful to compare this work with that of his very last building, villa Ottolenghi Bardolino, which was near to completion at the time of his sudden death in 1978. Upon completion of villa Veritti over the next ten years, without ever letting up on his work on renovation and layouts, Scarpa accepted some highly challenging commissions, working on the Carlo Felice Theatre in Genoa and another theatre in Vicenza. Towards the end of this decade, in 1969, Rina Brion commissioned Carlo Scarpa to build the Brion Mausoleum in San Vito d’Altivole (Treviso), a piece he continued to work on right up until the moment of his death. Nevertheless, even though he was totally absorbed by work on this mausoleum, there are plenty of other episodes which can offer some insight into the final years of his career. As work on the San Vito d’Altivole Mausoleum began to lessen from 1973, Carlo Scarpa started building the new headquarters for the Banca Popolare di Verona. He drew up plans that were surprisingly different from the work he was carrying out at the same time on the villa Ottolenghi. However, the plans Carlo Scarpa drew up, at different times, for a monument in Brescia’s Piazza della Loggia commemorating victims of the terrorist attack on May 28th, 1974, make a sharp contrast to the work he carried out in Verona, almost as if there is a certain hesitation after so many mannered excesses. The same Pietas that informs his designs for the Piazza Della Loggia can also be seen in the presence of the water that flows through the Brion Mausoleum, almost as if to give a concrete manifestation of pity in this twentieth-century work of art. Carlo Scarpa has put together a highly sophisticated collection of structures, occupying the mausoleum’s L-shaped space stretching across both sides of the old San Vito d’Altivole cemetery. A myriad of different forms and an equally large number of different pieces, all of which are separate and yet inextricably linked to form a chain that seems to offer no promise of continuity, rising up out of these are those whose only justification for being there is to bear the warning “si vis vitam, para mortem,” [if you wish to experience life prepare for death] as if to tell a tale that suggests the circle of time, joining together the commemoration of the dead with a celebration of life. At the entrance of the Brion Mausoleum stand the “propylaea” followed by a cloister which ends by a small chapel, with an arcosolium bearing the family sarcophagi, the main pavilion, held in place on broken cast iron supports, stands over a mirror-shaped stretch of water and occupies one end of the family’s burial space. The musical sound of the walkways teamed with the luminosity of these harmoniously blended spaces shows how, in keeping with his strong sense of vision, Carlo Scarpa could make the most of all of his many skills to come up with this truly magnificent space. As well as a great commitment to architectural work, with the many projects which we have already seen punctuating his career, Carlo Scarpa also made many equally important forays into the world of applied arts. Between 1926 and 1931, he worked for the Murano glassmakers Cappellin, later taking what he had learned with him when he went to work for the glassmakers Venini from 1933 until the 1950s. The story of how he came to work on furniture design is different, however, and began with the furniture he designed to replace lost furnishings during his renovation of Cà Foscari. The later mass-produced furniture started differently, given that many pieces were originally one-off designs “made to measure.” Industrial manufacturing using these designs as prototypes came into being thanks to the continuity afforded him by Dino Gavina, who, as well as this, also invited Carlo Scarpa to become president of the company Gavina SpA, later to become SIMON, a company Gavina founded eight years on, in partnership with Maria Simoncini (whose own name accounts for the choice of company name). Carlo Scarpa and Gavina forged a strong bond in 1968 as they began to put various models of his into production for Simon, such as the “Doge” table, which also formed the basis for the “Sarpi” and “Florian” tables. In the early seventies, other tables that followed included “Valmarana,” “Quatour,” and “Orseolo.” While in 1974, they added couch and armchair “Cornaro” to the collection and the “Toledo” bed...

"Battuto" vase By Carlo Scarpa for Venini, 1940, Italy Carlo Scarpa considered him one of the great Italian designers worldwide, occupying a key position in the evolution of his fam...

A hand blown glass globe / sphere with stunning reticello glass design, wiith brass stem and canopy. Designed by Carlo Scarpa for Venini, circa 1940. A c...

Fabulous original Venini Poliedri chandelier by Carlo Scarpa. Rare combination of light pink and Ice colored Murano glass. Ivory p...

VENINI - CARLO SCARPA - Beautiful ashtray or pocket emptier model made of wrought and acid-signed murano glass, VENINI - MURANO - ITALY.

Gritti table by Carlo Scarpa produced by Simon in 1976. A large table made with solid wood cylinders, crystal top, plexiglass feet ends. Bibliography: ...

Carlo Scarpa "Samo" oval table for Simon Gavina, white Carrara marble, Italy, 1971. The Scarpa's way of thinking the architecture is particularly visible in this piece. The “Samo” d...

This is a very well-known piece by Carlo Scarpa, acid signed four lines underside, Murano Venini made in Italy. Mint condition.Rare piece .

Battuto A Nido D’ape glass vase, designed by Carlo Scarpa and manufactured by Venini, was originally designed in 1940. Numbered edition per year. Indoor use only. Dimensions: Ø 23...

A fine Italian Mid Century Modern glass "Mezza Filigrana" picture frame designed by, Carlo Scarpa for Venini. The frame is internally decorated with pink lattice decoration and furth...