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©Clara Arpini

Clara Arpini

Clara Arpini Weaver
Contact
Italian, English
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+39 3407347191
©Clara Arpini

Handweaving an endless dialogue of colours

  • • Clara is self-taught and motivated by her own vision
  • • She revives and designs furniture and furnishings for the home
  • • Her favourite fibre is polypropylene

Born in 1987, Clara Arpini is a young craftswoman with a cultural background in humanities. Completely self-taught, she transformed a precocious passion for weaving into a successful job, starting her own business in 2014. Merging traditional hand weaving techniques with a modern design approach, she creates furnishings and home accessories, such as chairs, stools, seats, coffee tables, lampshades and rugs, working directly on the structures in her workshop in Cassano d’Adda. In her creations the dialogue between colours is limitless, she embraces the richness of contrasts. “I love to put black with other colours: this way, everything is more stylish. And I feel challenged by the different clients’ tastes, when I get into their houses” she says.

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Works

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Adele bench

This exquisite bench will elevate any modern entryway or bedroom with its colourful and graphical silhouette. Hand-woven of Okeo-Tex/Reach-certified polypropylene threads in brown and light-blue, the seat is sustained by a lightweight yet sturdy iron frame whose bright look was achieved using an opaque, powder-based white lacquer, black is also an option on request.

Length 180 cm
Width 36 cm
Height 46 cm

Photo: ©Alessandra di Consoli
Auro coffee table

This polished coffee table pairs the effortless elegance of a square-cut iron frame lacquered in opaque black with the refinement of marble and Okeo-Tex/Reach-certified polypropylene threads for human and ecological safety. The threads are hand-woven in a linear pattern and juxtaposed to the other half of white Carrara marble, making up a rectangular-shaped top.

Length 70 cm
Width 60 cm
Height 40 cm

Photo: ©Alessandra di Consoli
Ada armchair

An essential shape in a glamorous suit, this stackable dining armchair synthesises colour and industrial inspiration. Its iron frame is finished using a powder-based black lacquer, whose opaque and intense look is enlivened by the multicolour polypropylene threads hand-woven in an intricate pattern to create the seat and backrest – entirely Okeo-Tex/Reach-certified. Multiple colour options and a UV-treated outdoor variant are also available.

Length 43 cm
Width 46 cm
Height 80 cm

Photo: ©Alessandra di Consoli
Anita chair

A glamorous chair exuding a lively personality and an unexpected artisan quality. Polypropylene threads (Okeo-Tex/Reach-certified) in different shades of green and teal are deftly hand-woven to shape the seat and the open backrest. Its utterly minimalist iron frame is marked by a square cut and is painted using a powder-based black lacquer for added chromatic depth. Multiple colour options are available.

Length 43 cm
Width 46 cm
Height 80 cm

Photo: ©Alessandra di Consoli
Esa stool or coffee table

This modern iron structure with a hexagonal shape, can be used as a stool or coffee table. The top is hand woven with Okeo-Tex/Reach-certified polypropylene threads yarn. The weave creates a three-dimensional optical illusion.

Length 35 cm
Width 35 cm
Height 50 cm

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