Designed by Italian duo Gianmarco Codato and Luciano Trevisiol for Bonaldo, the Arpa bookcase is a study in materiality and visual lightness. The slender metal uprights that wrap around the wooden shelves provide both structure and support, gracefully suspending the horizontal planes. 

Meaning harp in Italian, Arpa expresses a harmonious rhythmic sequence with the vertical insertions arranged around the perimeter reading like tense strings on the musical instrument it’s named for.

The composition also allows for the surface of the shelves to run uninterrupted along their lengths and widths; rounded on the ends, the units fit into a multitude of domestic and professional settings.

Available in two sizes, the bookcases from Bonaldo can be configured with Canaletto walnut or smoked oak veneer shelves and the metal frame can be painted in six standard (white, anthracite grey, dove grey, brown, black – all matte – or supreme anthracite) and three specialty (matte bronze, matte lead or matte pearl gold) finishes.