Carlo Mollino

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Carlo Mollino (born May 6, 1905 in Turin ; † August 27, 1973 there ) was an Italian architect and designer.

Life

Carlo Mollino was born in Turin on May 6, 1905 . Immediately after graduating from Collegio S. Giuseppe secondary school , he enrolled for a two-year course at the engineering faculty, but switched to the newly founded Istituto Superiore di Architettura at the first opportunity , where he first studied art history and later architecture .

In 1931 he received one of the first diplomas awarded by the faculty and began to work in the studio of his father Eugenio, one of the most famous architects in Turin. It is also the father who awakens the love for the mountains and hiking in Mollino. The montane architectural style, which he got to know in the course of these sporting activities, will be formative for a lifetime, and Mollino brings it to numerous projects and realizations. However, he only carries out a few joint projects with his father, who among other things planned the Molinette Hospital.

Carlo Mollino remained celibate.

Publications

Other activities include publications at Casabella Verlag, which also publishes its own magazine. However, he also publishes in other publishing houses, and his bibliography includes a variety of works, from novels to magazine articles, erotic photo books, a ski instruction book, film reviews and works of art history to guest comments and forewords. The extensive archive is managed by the Central Library of the Architecture Faculty of the Turin Polytechnic .

Sport and technology

Mollino is considered a universal talent, and his achievements include not only architectural highlights, but also furniture design, photography, drafts of a record car from the Nardi & Danese company , the Nardi Bisiluro Damolnar (for Danese, Mollino and Nardi), various appearances at the 24 hours of Le Mans , the famous AGIP show bus Nube d'Argento and aerobatics. The flight movements are calculated and designed in detail and thus become choreographies. The skiing technique he used also becomes an art form in which he photographs the tracks of the skis and lets himself be inspired by the curves to create designs for furniture or buildings. He applies for several patents, including a. for cold deformation of plywood. This technique, which is much less complex than the hot forming that Alvar Aalto used , for example , was also used to manufacture his furniture. Other patents related to a. Drawing aids, bicycle cranks and a pipe-coupling system.

architecture

Hardly more than a dozen of his numerous architectural designs, almost all of which were interspersed with montane style features, were realized. His architectural works have so far received little attention and are located in the wider area of ​​Turin and the Breuil-Cervinia ski area , which perhaps explains their low awareness. The Casa Garelli (1963–65) can be seen as an architectural ready-made , because an old Swiss haystack in log cabin architecture was lavishly dismantled and given a new purpose as a residential house on a brick plinth. A characteristic of his creative style is the fact that he almost never only designed the exterior of a building, but was also interested in the interior design, which is particularly evident in the Casa del Sole , a homage to Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation . He designed a variety of pieces of furniture for this, such as a bunk bed that could be converted into a double bed or a table with chairs in a few simple steps.

Interior decoration

His interior design designs, on the other hand, were often implemented and are no less astonishing today than back then, as they deviate greatly from the traditional use of materials and break new ground. He designed sculptural individual pieces; his goal was not to design serial furniture.

Mollino is considered the one of the creators of the organic designs: Thank furniture looks to be an animal-like shape, so that is bedside table (1945) because of its shape also Canguro called the legs of the Casa Minola I-Radio frame (1945) are reminiscent of a leaping Dog, while lights like those for Casa Rivetti (1949) and Casa Minola (1945) were obviously inspired by flowers. Table frames, like the one for the Italy at work exhibition (1959), have the character of a spine, while stools like those for Casa Devalle (1940) resemble creepers. Many also suspect a strong erotic component in his furniture designs that he made for himself or close friends.

The furniture he designed fetch high prices, for example a desk that he designed for Casa Orengo and which sold for 3.8 million US dollars a few years ago, after having been the highest price in 1985 at 140,000 US dollars for a piece of furniture since World War II.

Works (selection)

Buildings

  • 1936–1939: Società Ippica Torinese , with Vittorio Baudi di Selve, Turin (demolished in 1960)
  • 1946–1947: Ski restaurant on Lago Nero ( Chalet del Lago Nero ), Sauze d'Oulx , Province of Turin, Piedmont. It was never fully completed and eventually left to decay, but renovated in the 1990s; In 1999 the first stage of the reconstruction was completed.
  • 1947–1955: Casa del Sole winter sports center , Cervinia
  • 1950–1952: Restructuring of the Vittorio Emmanule Theater in the RAI - Auditorium with Carlo Morbelli, Turin
  • 1952–1953: Villa Luigi Cattaneo , on the Agra plateau, near Luino
  • 1957–1960: Head of the specialist group commissioned with the design for INA social housing in Corso Sebastopoli, Turin (Carlo A. Bordogna, Franco Campo, Francesco Dolza, Carlo Graffi, Nino Rosani)
  • 1958: Restoration of the Torino-Aeritalia airport building , Turin
  • 1960–1968: Casa Mollino , Turin
  • 1964–1972: Palazzo degli Affari , seat of the Turin Chamber of Commerce, with Carlo Graffi, Alberto Galardi and Antonio Migliasso, Turin
  • 1965–1973: Teatro Regio di Torino ( Nuovo Teatro Regio ), with Marco Zavelani Rossi, Carlo Graffi and Adolfo Zavelani Rossi, Turin

Interiors

  • 1938: Casa Miller , Turin
  • 1938–1939: Casa Devalle , Turin
  • 1944–1946: Casa Minola , Turin
  • 1949: Casa Orengo , Turin
  • 1959–1960: Lutrario Ballroom , Turin
  • 1968: Casa Pistoi , Turin

Unrealized projects

  • 1934: Project for a parish church in Passignano sul Trasimeno
  • 1940: Reconstruction of the Kind refuge in Sauze d'Oulx
  • 1945–1947: Project for the Quota 2600 winter sports center
  • 1951–1952: Project for the headquarters of the FISI ( Federazione Italiana Sport Invernali ), Madonna di Campiglio
  • 1954: Expansion of the Rivoli hospital
  • 1954: Chapel of the Luce Nuova Institute in Giaveno
  • 1966: Sauze d'Oulx development plan
  • 1967–1968: Project for the Casa Mollino retirement home , Liscia di Vacca, Sardinia
  • 1968: Dèpendance Branca ( garage with services), Lignan - Saint Barthèlemy ( Nus - Aosta )

Furniture

  • 1944: Ardea wing chair
  • 1946: Reale table
  • 1954: Gilda armchair
  • 1959: Mollino chair

Awards

  • 1932: 1st prize in a design competition for an alpine farm
  • 1946: 1st place in the design competition for the monument of freedom fighters in the main cemetery in Turin, with Umberto Mastroianni
  • 1951: 1st place in the Vetroflex Domus competition for the design of a single-family holiday home in the mountains
  • 1952: Honorary award in the design competition for accommodations at Saint-Gobain Spa , Pisa
  • 1964: 1st prize in the design competition for the Palazzo degli Affari , seat of the Turin Chamber of Commerce, with Carlo Graffi, Alberto Galardi and Antonio Migliasso

exhibition

  • 2011: House of Art , Munich: Carlo Mollino - maniera moderna

Bibliography (selection)

Own works

  • Completa y veridica historia de Picasso y del Cubismo . Chiantone Publishing House, Turin 1945
  • L'isola di Moreni . La Bussola Gallery, Turin 1946
  • Architettura, arte e tecnica . Chiantore Verlag, Turin 1948. With Giuseppe Vadacchino
  • Il messaggio della camera oscura . Chiantore Publishing House, Turin 1949
  • Il linguaggio dell'architettura, il volto della città . Chiantore Publishing House, Turin 1949
  • Istruzioni ad uso dei candidati ed aspiranti alla qualifica di maestro scelto . Cosciuma Verlag, Milan 1953. With Gai Mirando

Contributions in other works

  • Vita di Oberon. In: Casabella. No. 67, July 1933, pp. 10-12.
  • L'amante del Duca. In: Il Selvaggio. August, October, December 1934.
  • Mille case. In: Domus. No. 85, January 1935, pp. 3-4, with Gino Levi-Montalcini and Emilio Pifferi.
  • L'amante del Duca. In: Il Selvaggio. March, April 1935.
  • Per un'architettura urbanistica. In: Domus. No. 101, May 1936, p. 1, with G. Levi-Montalcini and E. Pifferi.
  • L'amante del Duca. In: Il Selvaggio. May 1936.
  • Incanto e volontà di Antonelli. In: Torino. May 1941, pp. 1-15.
  • Camera da letto per una cascina in risaia. In: Domus. No. 181, January 1943, pp. 12-46.
  • La casa e l'ideale: casa in collina. In: Domus. No. 182, February 1943, pp. 50-54.
  • Urbanismo e condizione umana. In: styles. No. 31, July 1943, pp. 9-13.
  • Proposizioni sui mobili tipo che i costruttori di mobili sono invitati a leggere. In: styles. No. 31, July 1943, pp. 50-54.
  • Urbanistica: tecnica dell'utopia. In: Il Costume Politico e Letterario. September 29, 1945, p. 11.
  • Testimonianze della casa. In: Tracciati. No. 5, May 1945, pp. 112-121.
  • Vedere l'architettura. In: Agorà. No. 8, August, pp. 13-19; No. 9-10, September-October, pp. 19-25; No. 11, November 1945, pp. 18-25.
  • Utopia e ambientazione. In: Domus. No. 237, 1949, pp. 14-19.
  • Tutto è permesso semper salva la fantasia. In: Domus. No. 269, April 1950, pp. 20-27.
  • Esiste l'architettura moderna? In: Omnibus. May 1950, pp. 21-29.
  • Critica cinematografica e arti più o meno figurative. In: Le belle arti e il film, magazine of the Venice Biennale. No. 8-9, September 1950, pp. 70-75.
  • La stazione della funivia del Furggen. In: Prospettive. No. 1, December 1951, pp. 32-37.
  • L'architettura attuale in Italia. In: Marco Valsecchi and Umbro Apollonio: Panorama dell'arte italiana. Lattes Verlag, Turin 1951, pp. 55-60.
  • Retoriche e poetiche della proporzione. In: Domus. No. 269, April 1952, pp. 33-34.
  • Schemi linguistici nell'architettura. In: Galleria di arti e lettere. No. 2, March-April 1953, pp. 13-15.
  • Classicismo e Romanticismo nell'architettura attuale. In: Metron. No. 53–54, September – December, pp. 4–11, and Atti e rassegna tecnica della Società degli ingegneri e degli architetti in Torino. No. 12, December 1954, pp. 453-459.
  • L'architettura, intenzioni e caratteristiche. In: Bernardi Marziano: L'auditorium di Torino. Eri Verlag, Turin 1962, with Aldo Morbelli.
  • Nuovo teatro regio, progetto di massima. In: Torino. 1965, with Marcello Zavelani Rossi.
  • Nuovo teatro regio, relazione allegata al progetto esecutivo. In: Torino. 1966, with Zari Leonida.

Mollino also wrote several articles for the monthly journal of the Turin Architects and Engineers' Guild ( Atti e rassegna tecnica della Società degli ingegneri e degli architetti in Torino : 1949, 1952, 1953, 1954 and 1973).

TV reports

Carlo Mollino produced television reports for the RAI:

  • L'architettura è uno specchio . January 28, 1958
  • La casa dell'uomo: dalla palafitta al grattacielo . March 14, 1958
  • La nostra casa si trasforma: I. dalle origini al Rinascimento. II. Dal Barocco al neoclassico. III. Età moderna . January 23, 1959

Quotes

  • " Tutto è permesso, semper salva la fantasia " (German: anything is allowed, as long as it is fantastic ).
  • " La poesia non nasce dalle regole, ma le regole derivano dalla poesia " (German: Poetry is not born from rules, but rules from poetry ).

literature

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Booklet to the exhibition Carlo Mollino - maniera moderna. House of Art Munich, September 16, 2011 - January 8, 2012.
  2. ↑ Ralf Eibl: Rasender Gestalter . Portrait of Carlo Mollino, in: Welt am Sonntag . December 25, 2011, p 62.
  3. ^ Carlo Mollino - Maniera moderna. Exhibition 09/16/11 - 01/08/12. House of Art .
  4. ↑ The man who got the curves. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . September 18, 2011, pages 30/31.
  5. ↑ Domus . No. 269, April 1950, pp. 20-27.
  6. ↑ Classicismo e Romanticismo nell'architettura attuale. In: Metron. No. 53-54, September-December 1954, pp. 4-11.
personal data
SURNAME Mollino, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect and designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1973
Place of death Turin