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{{short description|Italian architect}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{copy edit|date=December 2023}} [[File:Carlo Scarpa 1954.jpg|thumb|Scarpa studying the drawings of [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] in Venice, 1954]] '''Carlo Scarpa''' (2 June 1906 β 28 November 1978) was an Italian [[architect]] and designer. He was influenced by the materials, landscape, and history of Venetian culture, as well as that of Japan.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120113050611/http://visit.lincoln.ac.uk/C18/C9/CDL/default.aspx Carlo Scarpa and Japan. The influence of Japanese art and architecture in the work of Carlo Scarpa]. lincoln.ac.uk</ref> Scarpa translated his interests in history, regionalism, invention, and the techniques of the artist and craftsman into ingenious glass and furniture design.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Albertini|first1=Bianca|last2=Bagnoli|first2=Alessandro|title=Carlo Scarpa: Architecture in Details.|date=1988|publisher=Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press|isbn=0262011077}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Barovier|first1=Marina|title=Carlo Scarpa: I Vetri Di Murano 1927-1947.|date=1991|publisher=Venezia : Il cardo|oclc=26484061}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Roberta|title=Clear, Opaque and Oh, So Delizioso 'Venetian Glass by Carlo Scarpa' at the Met|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/arts/design/venetian-glass-by-carlo-scarpa-at-the-met.html?_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times|date=5 December 2013}}</ref>
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