Exhibition „Mario Tarabocchia"

 Mario Tarabocchia was born on November 5, in Mali Lošinj, in a family of shipbuilders. He completed the Maritime School in his hometown, after which he started working in his father`s shipyard at Škverić. There he gained his first practical experience learning from a good master, his father. Mario made one of his earlier designs, if not the first, after his father`s boat model Toosa. Namely, in traditional ways, ships were built using a scale model and only recently the plans and layouts come into use. Soon Mario tried to design the sailboat himself, so far his father`s clients he designed the schooner Maria Lucrezia and the cutter Ombretta. In 1946 he started teaching Technical Drawing and Descriptive Geometry at the Maritime School, but onlyy until 1948 because the school stopped working. When socio - political circumstances changed after Lošinj had become part of the Federal People`s Republic of  Yugoslavia, many Lošinj families and individuals emigrated abroad, primarily to Italy and the United States. Mario Tarabocchia was no exception. In  search of a new job he first found himself aboard ship for a couple of years and then he went to Sanremo, where Mario`s father had a small shipyard for maintenance and overhaul of ships. In 1956 he went to the United States. His first job on the other side of the Atlantic was as a technical director in Freeport (the State of New York) at the Freeport Point Shipyard operated by Federico Scopinich, also from Lošinj. However, he wasn`t there very long because as early as 1960 he started working for the design office of Sparkman & Stephens where he stayed, with short interruptions, until his retirement. It was the best period for Sparkman & Stephens, partly thanks to the contribution of Mario Tarabocchia and his fritful work. 

Exhibition is open until November 4, 2017.