Carlo Mollino

Carlo Mollino, born in Turin in 1905, was an Italian architect, designer and photographer. He trained at the Regia Scuola Superiore di Architettura of the Accademia Albertina of Turin, where he graduated in 1931. In 1948 he published the volumes of Architecture, art and technique and in 1953 he obtained the professorship of Architectural Composition, which he held for the rest of his life. In the 1940s he began his career as an interior designer. His furnishings, often produced as unique pieces or in limited series, were the result of the fusion of artisan techniques with modern materials and technologies: his technique of "cold" bending of plywood, which expressed his passion for nature and in particular the mountain, made him famous during the fifties. He continued to work in his studio and at the Polytechnic University of Turin until 1973, the year of his death.