disappearing

architecture

 

An architect by training, Mollino designed a vast number of projects but only 10 or so were ever built. Only his residence in Turin, in which he never lived for very long, survives. All his other buildings have been redone or razed.

Chamber of Commerce of Turin by Carlo Mollino. Photo: Fotodom.

Chamber of Commerce of Turin by Carlo Mollino

he was an artist with a capital a, with a limitless ability to express himself.
—fulvio ferrari, author of several books about mollino

Pair of armchairs, designed for the Acotto House, Turin