Afra & Tobia Scarpa

Afra & Tobia Scarpa met while studying architecture in Venice and in 1960 opened their studio in Montebelluna, where Afra was born in 1937; Tobia, son of the architect Carlo Scarpa, was born in Venice in 1935. They designed the Bastiano sofa for Gavina, lamps for Flos and stores for Benetton, and their Soriana seating for Cassina won the Compasso d’Oro in 1970. Afra died in 2011.

For C&B Italia, now B&B Italia, they designed the Coronado sofa and armchair in 1966, the year the company was founded, and in 1975 the Artona collection that launched Maxalto.