Mollino | Armchair

Carlo Mollino

Originally created for the RAI auditorium by leading architect Carlo Mollino, the Mollino seat was redesigned to meet the needs of sophisticated modern audiences. It preserves the minimalist and curvy elegance typical of the 1970s.

Specifications

Upholstered in fabric, the Mollino armchair is composed of a strong steel, MDF and solid beech frame. To guarantee maximum comfort, the chair is padded with fire-resistant polyurethane foam and the spring system consists of woven elastic belts. An automatic retraction system consisting of counterweights quietly and discreetly returns the seat to its original position. It is anchored to the floor quite simply through elegantly moulded tubular metal feet, available in different finishes.

 

Variants: the Mollino seat can be upholstered with different materials chosen from a range of comfortable and resistant fabrics or sustainably sourced leathers. The feet are normally painted black but on request they can be supplied with a chrome or brass galvanic finish. On request, the armchair can be fitted with a backrest panel.

Designed by
Carlo Mollino

Carlo Mollino (Turin, 1905-73) was an architect who committed equally to art and to technique, embodying the figure of the Italian Renaissance polymath in the context of modernity. He was a sportsman and a cultured intellectual, besides designing buildings, interiors, and furniture, he was a photographer, a writer, a skier, an aerobatic pilot, and a professor at the Polytechnic of Turin. In the 1930s he was among the very few architects, internationally speaking, to introduce elements of Surrealist art and culture into the Modern Movement. Free from any rigid ideological position, he went on to define a synthetic form of eclecticism that prefigured the contemporary. Taking nature as a source for both engineering and harmonious beauty, Mollino was essentially in search of lightness and dynamism, qualities he animatedly infused into his organic architecture and furniture.

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