Main entry:

Ferrari, Napoleone, 1973- author.

Title & Author:

Carlo Mollino : architect and storyteller / Napoleone Ferrari, Michelangelo Sabatino ; with photographs by Pino Musi.

Publication:

Zurich : Park Books, [2022]
©2022

Description:

455 pages : illustrations (partly color) ; 33 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-450) and index.
Framing Carlo Mollino -- Portraits -- Work in Process Architecture as Language -- An Enchanted Childhood An Educational Journey -- Surreal Interiors -- Essayist and Educator The Structures of Nature -- Surface and Structure -- The Body of Architecture -- Beauty and Proportions Art and Technique -- Modern Eclecticism -- Architectural Stories 1933-73 -- The Life of Oberon -- Offices of the Farmers' Federation -- House in the Pine Forest -- Hotel near the Matterhorn -- Horse Riding Club of Turin -- Mountain Hostel -- Chapel at Theodul Glacier -- House on the Hill -- Villa Damonte -- House on the Heights -- Casa Castello -- House for the Ancient Saracen Port -- Monument to the Fallen -- Casa del Sole -- Villa Lora Totino -- Lago Nero Sled Station -- Truss House -- Casa Talamona -- Apartment Building in Sanremo -- Casa Rama -- Vetroflex-Domus -- RAI Auditorium -- Gallery of Modern Art of Turin -- Furggen Cable Car Arrival Station -- Hotel Restaurant and Club -- FISI Athlete Retreat -- Casa Linot -- Apartment Building on Viale Maternita -- Casa Cattaneo -- Exhibition Hall, Italia '61 -- Casa Olivero -- Taleuc Rascard -- Chamber of Commerce of Turin -- Regio Opera House -- Casa Mollino -- Offices of Monte dei Paschi di Siena Bank -- ATM Headquarters -- FIAT Headquarters -- Complete Works and Projects -- Essays -- Some Foxing at the Margins / Guy Nordenson -- The Enfant Terrible and His Students / Sergio Pace.

Summary:

Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino (1905-73) is known to many for his furniture designs. Although none of Mollino's designs were mass-produced, they command high prices among collectors of twentieth-century furniture and are part of the collections of major design museums. Others recall Mollino for his large secret stash of erotic Polaroids, taken throughout the 1960s and recovered among his personal effects after his death. The risqué photos have been the subject of several exhibitions and have inspired fashion designers, including Jeremy Scott, who drew on them when creating a recent collection for Moschino. Much less attention has been devoted to Mollino's contribution to architecture. With 'Carlo Mollino: Architect and Storyteller', Napoleone Ferrari and Michelangelo Sabatino offer the first carefully researched and comprehensive study of Mollino's architectural work. Drawing on rich archival materials, as well as Mollino's own writings, they argue persuasively that, while Mollino realized relatively few projects, his contributions to architecture and, in particular, the modernist movement are both significant and distinctive due to Mollino's strong affinity with surrealism. The book features both built and unrealized projects, including masterpieces like the Teatro Regio and the Torino Chamber of Commerce and early, lesser-known works like the Torino Horse Riding Club and the Lago Negro chairlift station in the Italian Alps. Lavish illustrations and essays by Ferrari and Sabatino round out this overdue tribute to an extraordinary personality of twentieth-century architecture.

ISBN:

9783038601333 hardbound
3038601330

Subject:

Mollino, Carlo, 1905-1973.
Architects Italy Biography.
Architecture Italy History 20th century.
Architect-designed furniture Italy.
Architecture Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Meubles conçus par des architectes Italie.
Architectes Italie Biographies.
Architect-designed furniture
Architecture
Italy

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Sabatino, Michelangelo, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315405
Call No.: 315405
Copy: 1
Status: Available