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This volume presents a wealth of iconographic material—vintage photos, drawings, sketches, and photomontages drawn from Mollino’s archives at the Turin Politecnico—and some previously unpublished documents and images.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book includes a contribution by the architect Mario Cucinella, and a photographic portfolio by Uli Weber. It is not an exhaustive critical monograph, but instead bears witness with novelistic sweep. The Colombari sisters write about Mollino’s creative mindset, his architecture and design, his photography, his lifelong passion for speed, his eroticism, and the overlap of his personal and professional life from a childhood in Turin through his death in 1973. No one could portray Mollino, the man and the artist, more convincingly than the two women who brought his legacy to light.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rizzoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127833575644,"sku":"S06118","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/9746\/1724\/files\/NEW-WI20259352.jpg?v=1770153352"},{"product_id":"mollino-insides-enoc-perez-brigitte-schindler-carlo-mollino","title":"Mollino\/Insides: Enoc Perez, Brigitte Schindler, Carlo Mollino","description":"\u003cp\u003eArchitectural photographs and gestural paintings of the Via Napione in Turin—home to Carlo Mollino.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Mollino\/Insides, Puerto Rican painter Enoc Perez (born 1967) and German photographer Brigitte Schindler focus on Turin’s Via Napione—the last residence of renowned Italian architect, designer and photographer Carlo Mollino (1905-1973). The exhibition gathers Perez’s paintings and Schindler’s photographs alongside photographs by Mollino himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silvana Editoriale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184511631580,"sku":"S06178","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/9746\/1724\/files\/NEW-WI20258560.jpg?v=1763511330"},{"product_id":"carlo-mollino-photographs-1934-1973","title":"Carlo Mollino: Photographs 1934-1973","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarlo Mollino was, among many other things, a photographer and a commentator on photography; Mollino himself placed photography in a privileged role in the pantheon of his interests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMollino used photography as both a means of expression and an essential instrument for the documentation of his work and his daily life, producing works that were both classical and experimental, public and private. He was also an eloquent champion of photography as an art form, publishing Message from the Darkroom in 1949—a legendary photobook that was part history of photography, part technical manual and gloriously lavish for both functions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarlo Mollino: Photographs 1934–1973 is a long-overdue survey of Mollino's full body of photographic work, published to accompany the largest and most complete exhibition ever staged of Mollino's photography. With more than 450 illustrations (some never before seen), this publication surveys Mollino's decades-long exploration of the medium, from his first architectural pictures to the erotic Polaroids of his later years, and contextualizes his work within the history of the discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the most celebrated architects of the 20th century, Carlo Mollino (1905–73) was also a designer, photographer, writer, skier, racing driver and stunt pilot. He studied mechanical engineering, art history and architecture before beginning to work in the architectural practice of his father, Eugenio Mollino, in Turin. Mollino's architectural work in Turin—from his first great building, the headquarters of the Turin Equestrian Association (1937), to his architectural masterpiece, the city's Teatro Regio (1965)—bookends a career marked by elegant, organic modernism and a drive toward fantasy and experimentation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silvana Editoriale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47437619232988,"sku":"26K003-BOV","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/9746\/1724\/files\/NEW-WI20259241.jpg?v=1768266004"},{"product_id":"gio-ponti-and-carlo-mollino-post-war-italian-architects-and-the-relevance-of-their-work-today","title":"Gio Ponti and Carlo Mollino: Post-war Italian Architects and the Relevance of Their Work Today","description":"More than the story of two architects, this is a book about creating architectural works inspired by living things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile waiting for a better fortune for the Italian people in the aftermath of the Second World War, Giò Ponti and Carlo Mollino, two architects and friends, tried countless ways to make an architectural work that was as vital and miraculous as living things--even though they knew it wasn't possible. Ponti and Mollino nevertheless attained a more modest ambition: from time to time, when all the conditions were \"right,\" the inhabitants of their lively, animated works of architecture felt at home--with themselves, others, and their intimate, physical surroundings. 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