Arper: Lina Bo Bardi in Full Colour | News | Architonic

Though nearly half a century separates their entry into the world of design, Brazilian architectural icon Lina Bo Bardi and Italian design house Arper have, in recent years, become happy cohorts. While Bo Bardi became known for a bold, expressive modernism developed in 1950s Sao Paulo, her style was rooted in a resolutely rationalist grounding gained from her Italian upbringing and apprenticeships in Milan through the 1940s. Arper meanwhile was born in the dying days of the 1980s, and developed a design language that synthesised form and functionality, colour and warmth. Walk into Arper’s Milan showroom today and you will be greeted by an exhibition celebrating all that unites the two: namely, colour, collaboration and Bo Bardi’s 1951 era-defining Bowl chair which Arper issued for the first time in 2012. ‘Lina Bo Bardi in Full Color’ launched during Milan Design Week.