Carlo Mollino

Exhibited by Galleria Rossella Colombari

Material Wood, brass and fibrosil

Dimensions 77 × 178 × 90 cm

Status Vetted

About the Work

The desk comes from a distinguished Italian private collection. Its history is closely linked to the pioneering research carried out by Rossella Colombari, who in the early 1980s explored Carlo Mollino’s creative world with great insight and expertise, playing a key role in the rediscovery and appreciation of his work.

This particular piece originally belonged to the furnishings of the Lattes publishing house in Turin—a significant context for understanding Mollino’s relationship with the interiors he designed, always conceived as harmonious environments deeply connected to his architectural and stylistic vision.

It is therefore a desk of not only refined formal elegance but also considerable historical interest, representing one of the most sophisticated phases of the Turin master’s production.

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Provenance

Italian Private Collection

Literature

Rossella Colombari, Carlo Mollino. Catalogo dei mobili, Idea books, Milano, 2005 p. 77, p. 81.

Fulvio Ferrari, Napoleone Ferrari, I mobili di Carlo Mollino, Phaidon, Londra 2006, p. 139.

Irene de Guttry, Maria Paola Maino, Il mobile italiano degli anni '40 e '50, Laterza editori, 1992, p. 213.

Roberto Aloi, Esempi Di Arredamento Moderno, Di Tutto Il Mondo, studi librerie scrivanie, Milan, 1956, fig. 223.

Fulvio Ferrari, Carlo Mollino, Cronaca, Turin, 1985, p. 118.

Giovanni Brino, Carlo Mollino, Munich, 1987, p. 111.

Fulvio Ferrari and Napoleone Ferrari, The Furniture of Carlo Mollino, New York, 2006, p. 138-39, p. 227.

Fulvio Ferrari and Napoleone Ferrari, eds., Carlo Mollino Arabesques, exh. cat., Galleria Civica d’ Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Milan, 2007, illustrated p. 93, fig. 133.