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Carlo Mollino

( Italian, 1905 - 1973 )

Unique pair of lounge chairs, designed for the living room of the Ada and Cesare Minola House, Turin

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Materials:

gilt wood, fabric, brass nailheads

Size Notes:

each

Description:

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Exhibited:

'Carlo Mollino: Arabesques', Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, 20 September 2006-7 January 2007

Literature:

'Esperienze formali nell'arredamento', Domus, no. 227, August 1948, illustrated pp. 12-13 Fulvio Ferrari, Carlo Mollino: Cronaca, exh. cat., Galleria Fulvio Ferrari, Turin, 1985, illustrated pp. 88, 93 Giovanni Brino, Carlo Mollino: Architettura come autobiografia, Milan, 1987, illustrated p. 97 François Burkhardt and Claude Eveno, eds., L'étrange univers de l'architecte Carlo Mollino, exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1989, illustrated p. 111 Roberto Gabetti and Fulvio Irace, Carlo Mollino 1905-1973, Turin, 1989, illustrated pp. 186-87 Rossella Colombari, Carlo Mollino: Catalogo del mobili-Furniture Catalogue, Milan, 2005, illustrated p. 32 Fulvio Ferrari and Napoleone Ferrari, The Furniture of Carlo Mollino, New York, 2006, illustrated pp. 120, 222 Fulvio Ferrari and Napoleone Ferrari, eds., Carlo Mollino: Arabesques, exh. cat., Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Milan, 2007, illustrated p. 70

Provenance:

Ada and Cesare Minola, Turin, 1944-1946 Thence by descent to the present owners

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