Carlo Mollino : architect and storyteller
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Carlo Mollino : architect and storyteller
Park Books, c2022
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Contributors: Pino Musi, Guy Nordenson, Sergio Pace, Bruno Reichlin, Elektrosmog (design studio); translator, Barbara Fisher
"Museo Casa Mollino"--Added t.p
"List of writings by Carlo Mollino": p. 442-445
Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-450) and index
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Today, Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino (1905-73) is known chiefly for his furniture designs. He is famous also for his erotic polaroid photography of the 1960s, which has been subject of many exhibitions and has lost nothing of its great appeal to the fashion world today. Much less attention has so far been given to Mollino's architecture, and a comprehensive critical study of his work in this field has been lacking. Yet his built work, although relatively small, constitutes a seminal contribution to modernism that is uniquely marked by a strong relationship with Surrealism.
Based on years of research and drawing on rich archival material as well as on Mollino's own writings, this new book is the overdue tribute to an extraordinary personality in 20th-century architecture. It features an exemplary selection of his key designs, both built and unrealised, lavishly illustrated with images and reproductions of previously unpublished plans, drawings, and documents. Rounded out with scholarly essays by expert authors, this is a long-awaited addition to the library of architecture lovers, professionals, and scholars.
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