Carlo Mollino (1905-1973)
Pair of chairs
Oak, walnut and brass
Model created circa 1953
H 92 × L 45 × W 44 cm
Provenance:
– Model created for la Casa Cattaneo, Agra, circa
1953
– Private collection, Italy
– Purchased from the latter
Bibliography:
– F. Ferrari, Carlo Mollino Cronaca, Turin, 1985,
p. 137
– I. de Guttry & M. P. Maino, Il mobile italiano
degli anni ‘40 and ‘50, Bari, 1992, p. 215
– Domus, no 889, February 2006, model illustrated
p. 22
– Rossella Colombari, Carlo Mollino Catalogo Dei
Mobili – Furniture Catalogue, Milan, 2005, p. 54
– F. Ferrari and Napoleone Ferrari, The Furniture
of Carlo Mollino, New York, 2006, p. 205
– F. Ferrari and Napoleone Ferrari, eds., Carlo
Mollino Arabesques, exh. cat., Galleria Civica
d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Milan, 2007,
p. 107
– N. Ferrari, Mollino. Casa del Sole, Turin, 2007,
pp. 75, 78, 84, 91, 93
Expertise conducted by the Museo Casa Mollino and referenced under nos. 430 Cattaneo 1 and 2
