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Upholstered daybed | Christie`s
Estimated value: 40.000-60.000 GBP
Reached Price : 47.800 GBP
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Sales date: 2003-10-08
Location:
London
Lot number: 75
Design
Carlo MollinoYear 1944
Architonic id
4102517
Designed 1944, executed for the Casa Minola, Turin, velvet upholstery, shaped and carved ebonised legs.
261⁄2in. (67cm.) height; 66in. (168cm.) width, 32in. (82cm.) depth
Built for art collectors Ada and Cesare Minola, the furnishing and decoration for this interior was carried out at the height of the war using available materials and skilled craftsmen. A subtle and fluid interior, the furnishings are characterised by soft, sensual and organic forms. This interior, together with the slightly later Casa Rivetti interior of 1947, are the two most outstanding examples of Mollino's dramatic and highly idiosyncratic vision.
Provenance: Ada & Cesare Minola, thence by descent
Lit: Giovanni Brino, Carlo Mollino, Architecture as Autobiography, London, 1987, pp. 96-97 (the chaise illustrated in situ)
261⁄2in. (67cm.) height; 66in. (168cm.) width, 32in. (82cm.) depth
Built for art collectors Ada and Cesare Minola, the furnishing and decoration for this interior was carried out at the height of the war using available materials and skilled craftsmen. A subtle and fluid interior, the furnishings are characterised by soft, sensual and organic forms. This interior, together with the slightly later Casa Rivetti interior of 1947, are the two most outstanding examples of Mollino's dramatic and highly idiosyncratic vision.
Provenance: Ada & Cesare Minola, thence by descent
Lit: Giovanni Brino, Carlo Mollino, Architecture as Autobiography, London, 1987, pp. 96-97 (the chaise illustrated in situ)
