Carlo Mollino was born in 1905 in Turin, the only son of his structural engineer father, Eugenio Mollino. Although the young Mollino studied architecture and initially joined his father's successful office, his working life took a different course from his father's. Graduating in 1931, Mollino began his multi-faceted career at a time when Modernism was at its height in international architecture. He was not only an architect, but also a furniture and interior designer, photographer, lecturer, automobile designer, passionate aviator and in 1942, he became a ski instructor, taking explanatory photographs that, along with 212 of his drawings on skiing technique and engineering, were later used to illustrate the hefty Introduzione al discesismo, published in Rome in 1950.

Preface

Reflections by Fulvio Ferrari

Surrealist Engineer by Nappoleone Ferrari

Works

Chronology

Select Bibliography

Index & Credits