Editing Carlo Scarpa (section)

== Design career ==
[[File:Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (Verona, 1982) - BEIC 6337280.jpg|thumb|[[Museo di Castelvecchio]] in [[Verona]]. Photo by [[Paolo Monti]], 1982 (Fondo Paolo Monti, [[Biblioteca europea di informazione e cultura|BEIC]]).]]
Scarpa was a designer as well as an architect. At the beginning of his career, he collaborated with [[Glass production|glassmakers]] in [[Murano]]. He designed jars and chandeliers for [[:it:MVM Cappellin|MVM Cappellin & Co.]] and [[Venini & C.|Venini]]. His designs for Venini have sold for high prices at auction, including a 1940 vase that sold at [[Christie's]] in 2012 for around $309,000, and another vase, found in a [[thrift store]], which sold in 2023 for $107,100.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Boucher |first=Brian |date=2023-12-13 |title=A Carlo Scarpa Vase Found in a Thrift Store Makes $107,000 at Auction |url=https://news.artnet.com/market/carlo-scarpa-vase-goodwill-auction-2407129 |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-12-14 |title=$4 thrift-store vase sells for $107,100 at auction |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/12/14/thrift-store-vase-sells-at-auction |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=The Art Newspaper – International art news and events}}</ref>

Furthermore, Scarpa joined the [[industrial design]] world in the 1960s after meeting Dino Gavina. Scarpa became the president of the eponymous company Gavina.

In 1968, after the founding of Studio Simon, Scarpa started to design industrial furniture.

He designed pieces for Simon and Bernini.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Carlo Scarpa, Sandro Bagnoli |url=https://en.silvanaeditoriale.it/libro/9788836628162 |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=en.silvanaeditoriale.it |language=en}}</ref> The Doge table (1968) and the Cornaro sofa (1973) are the most famous.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2022-01-18|title=Carlo Scarpa, When Design Comes from Creativity|url=https://www.italiandesignclub.com/2022/01/18/carlo-scarpa-when-design-comes-from-creativity/|access-date=2022-02-14|website=Italian Design Club|language=en-US}}</ref>