Arper

Heritage

Arper was founded in 1989 in Monastier di Treviso, Italy. It describes itself as a fast-growing, family-owned and independently run company that has grown from a furniture manufacturing business into an international design presence, with its headquarters and showroom still in Monastier di Treviso.

Philosophy

Arper calls itself a global design brand that envisions products for the ways we live. Its vision is "a beautiful, vital world" and its mission is to create spaces and solutions that shape the Project of Living. The company names five values — Responsibility, Care, Openness, Imagination and Courage — and a design approach that is problem-solving, essential, inclusive, versatile and life-centered. Modularity is core to its systems, which are designed for easy assembly and disassembly for maintenance, reuse and recycling.

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Iconic Works

• Catifa 53 by Lievore Altherr Molina (2001), the chair Arper says shaped its identity
• Catifa 46 (2004), its compact sister for contract spaces
• Catifa Carta (2024), with a PaperShell made of 29 sheets of kraft paper
• Other Lievore Altherr Molina collections such as Duna and Leaf

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Today

Arper SPA works with clients and partners on outdoor, public, waiting and lounge spaces, supports culture through Arper for Culture, and continues to renew its icons with recycled and regenerated materials, as in Catifa (RE) 53 (2025).