33. Carlo Mollino
1905-1973
Rare chair, designed for the conference room, Lattes Publishing House, Turin, 1951 Ash plywood, Resinfex, steel, brass. 97.3 x 39 x 54 cm (38 1/4 x 15 3/8 x 21 1/4 in.) Executed by Apelli & Varesio, Turin, Italy. From the production of 12. Estimate £70,000-90,000 $90,400-116,000 €79,900-103,000 plus Buyers Premium and VAT*
Provenance Mario Lattes, conference room, Lattes Publishing House, Turin, 1951 Gifed to a former employee of Mario Lattes Thence by descent Literature Anne Bony, Les années 50, Paris, 1982, p. 315 Galerie Denys Bosselet, Carlo Mollino 1905/1973, Premier Designer, Dernier Artisan des Années ‘50, Paris, 1984, n.p. Derek E. Ostergard, ed., Mackintosh to Mollino, Fify Years of Design, exh. cat., Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, 1984, no. 60 Fulvio Ferrari, Carlo Mollino, Cronaca, Turin, 1985, p. 121 Giovanni Brino, Carlo Mollino, Munich, 1987, p. 110 Rossella Colombari, Carlo Mollino Catalogo Dei Mobili-Furniture Catalogue, Milan, 2005, p. 80 Giovanni Brino, Carlo Mollino: Architecture as Autobiography, Milan, 2005, fg. 347 Fulvio Ferrari and Napoleone Ferrari, The Furniture of Carlo Mollino, New York, 2006, pp. 172, 228 Fulvio Ferrari and Napoleone Ferrari, eds., Carlo Mollino Arabesques, exh. cat., Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Milan, 2007, pp. 91-92