Carlo Mollino (1905-1973)

A BRASS AND RESIN-FLEX UPHOLSTERED CHAIR, 1950

Details

Carlo Mollino (1905-1973)
A Brass and Resin-flex Upholstered Chair, 1950
manufactured by Apelli & Varesio, Turin
37½ in. (95.2 cm.) high, 15 in. (38.1 cm.) wide, 21¾ in. (55.2 cm.) deep

Provenance

Lisa Licitra Ponti, Milan
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Domus, no. 267, February 1952 for an article on the Ponti apartment in Milan, showing five chairs of this design in situ.

Exhibition catalogue, L'étrange univers de Carlo Mollino (1905-1973), Paris 1989, p. 89 for a construction drawing of this chair, p. 119 for an illustration of this chair.

Exhibited

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, October 1989 - January 1990, L'étrange univers de Carlo Mollino (1905-1973).

Lot Essay

cf. A. Bangert, Italienisches Möbeldesign - Klassiker von 1945 bis 1985, Munich 1985, pp. 76-77.
cf. Exhibition catalogue, Carlo Mollino 13 Sedie, Spazio Romeo Gigli, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan 1990, p. 1.
cf. C. and P. Fiell, 1000 Chairs, Cologne 1997, p. 283.

A chair of this design will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonée by Fulvio and Napoleone Ferrari, The complete works of Carlo Mollino, London 2005, figs. 249-250.

Mollino designed this chair together with a sofa and armchairs for Lisa Ponti on the occasion of her wedding to Luigi Licitra. Only six chairs of this model have been produced. The unusal cloven hoof form of the back attests to Carlo Mollino's interest in the occult and enigmatic.

A BRASS AND RESIN-FLEX UPHOLSTERED CHAIR, 1950

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