CARLO SCARPA & MARCEL BREUER
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 ultil the second half of the Forties, he received numerous commissions to design, covert prepare buildings. But his work remains not very well known, and only later on the critic will discover it and make his operate apreciated. Scarpa works for a long time with Dino Gavina, planning for the Simon International a very formal and elegant set of furniture, and some of them, such as the Doge table (1969) will remain significant interpreters of his way to express the design, always designed and builted as architecture. Besides architecture and design, which will occupate all his professional iter, Scarpa will be consultant for more than thirty years (starting from 1942) at the Venice Biennale.
Marcel Breuer
This German designer and architect who was originally from Hungary, enrolled at the Bauhaus School when he was just 18. Four years later he had become one of its main teachers. In charge of its furniture section, Breuer encouraged students to look at how furniture and furnishing could be industrially manufactured, tackling the relative technological and stylistic problems with a through and methodological approach. Meeting with Marcel Breuer was one of the most important moments in Gavina's life