A cutlery set, designed 1977

Entrepreneur and design enthusiast Carlo Munari founded his manufacturing company in early 1970s producing a highly selected range of models designed by some of  the most influential designers and architects of the time, including Gio Ponti, Ettore Sottsass, Vico Magistretti, Alessandro Mendini and others. Having met the ‘maestro’ Carlo Scarpa in early 1970s, Cleto Munari commissioned the architect to design a cutlery service, the project eventually taking over four years to be completed. The set, following Scarpa’s idiosyncratic trait of excluding forks and knives for seafood which he disliked, went on to be regarded as amongst the most successful models produced by the firm.