First edition of this book showcasing Carlo Mollino’s portrait photographs, unpublished in his lifetime, taken between 1956 and 1962 and set in one of Mollino’s private apartments in Turin that was refurbished and furnished to purpose. Published in 2006 by Museo Casa Mollino. Edited and with texts by Fulvio and Napoleone Ferrari, the father and son team that co-founded the Museo Casa Mollino in 1999, 14 years after the elder Ferrari gave Mollino his first retrospective exhibition. Best known for his modernist architecture and sculptural furniture designs, Mollino was an avid, if amateur, photographer (as well as skier, race car driver, and pilot) who utilized a Leica camera and color negative film in the period represented here, retouching and in-painting the images to realize a meticulously constructed and highly idiosyncratic artistic vision at the intersection of eroticism, surrealism, and architectural staging. The present portfolio ends before Mollino’s Polaroid work of the 1960’s—the subject of separate volumes by the Ferraris. 4to (10” x 11.75”), hardcover with a paste-in photographic reproduction, no dust jacket as issued, 335 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b/w. Slight bowing to textblock. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Content NF.
First edition of this book showcasing Carlo Mollino’s portrait photographs, unpublished in his lifetime, taken between 1956 and 1962 and set in one of Mollino’s private apartments in Turin that was refurbished and furnished to purpose. Published in 2006 by Museo Casa Mollino. Edited and with texts by Fulvio and Napoleone Ferrari, the father and son team that co-founded the Museo Casa Mollino in 1999, 14 years after the elder Ferrari gave Mollino his first retrospective exhibition. Best known for his modernist architecture and sculptural furniture designs, Mollino was an avid, if amateur, photographer (as well as skier, race car driver, and pilot) who utilized a Leica camera and color negative film in the period represented here, retouching and in-painting the images to realize a meticulously constructed and highly idiosyncratic artistic vision at the intersection of eroticism, surrealism, and architectural staging. The present portfolio ends before Mollino’s Polaroid work of the 1960’s—the subject of separate volumes by the Ferraris. 4to (10” x 11.75”), hardcover with a paste-in photographic reproduction, no dust jacket as issued, 335 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b/w. Slight bowing to textblock. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Content NF.
