A glass cabinet characterised by slender profiles that have been lacquered and veneered using different types of exquisite woods.
Wooden base and top with attached uprights. Glass shelves for displaying precious objects. With Mita, Molteni&C introduce wood veneering of metal and this technology would become one of the highly distinctive features of Molteni&C production to this day.
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.
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“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
