Giuseppe Scapinelli Side Table (Pair)
Price on request
Historical Design
1950
Metal, Marble
50 x 44 x 40 cm
19.7 x 17.3 x 15.7 in
Giuseppe Scapinelli was an Italian-born architect and designer who worked in Brazil. He founded the Sao Paulo Museum of Art in 1946 and the eponymous Biennale five years later. In 1950, Scapinelli founded his agency and promoted a modern style rooted in the classical principles of Italian design. The industrial aesthetics of Streamline influences his dynamic shapes and cleverly combines ornaments with a sense of modernity.
Location: France
Artist
Giuseppe Scapinelli
Giuseppe Scapinelli (1891-1982) was an Italian designer, born in Modena, but who lived his whole life in Sao Paolo, Brazil. There he founded both a furniture company, Fábrica de Móveis Giesse, and a rug company, Fábrica de Tapetes Santa Helena in the 1950s.