furniture

All of the furniture created by Carlo Mollino reflected his two greatest passions—women and speed. Every detail suggests both the curves of the female body and the swift trajectory of planes in flight or a skier racing down a slope. The most famous of his creations is the table for the Casa Orengo, which sold at auction by Christie’s in 2005 for $3.8 million, a record of its kind.

he was not only a great artist. he was a turinese superhero—dark and irresistible. —paola antonelli, senior curator of design, museum of modern art, new york

Ardea lounge chair, designed by Carlo Mollino, 1944. © Zanotta.

 

casa mollino


The “House on the Hill,” as the Turinese call it, was the Carlo Mollino residence in which he kept all his most intimate treasures. The house is filled with objects both symbolic (the bed in the form of a boat on a floor of blue) and expressive (skins of a zebra and a leopard; velvet curtains; small, glittering mirrors; Japanese sliding doors). According to Fulvio Ferrari, who has organized the home as a museum, Mollino conceived of the mansion as a coffin, putting into it all that he most highly regarded.

The completed Teatro Regio, 1973. Photo: courtesy of Oscar Humphries.

The completed Teatro Regio
The chairs in Carlo Mollino’s RAI Auditorium
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