carlo mollino (1905-1973 turin, italy)
was an professor/practitioner of architecture who could
make anything …and was an expert in all fields.
his career was highly diversified:
he was a designer of furniture and interiors, of fashion, theater
and film sets, he loved photography, writing, skiing and he liked
to play daredevil. he designed the 'bisiluro' racecar, which he
drove at the leman's 24 hour race in 1954.
he redesigned the 'osca 1100' car series, project never went
in production.
he designed part of aeroplanes and risky acrobatic maneuvers.
women were another of the architect’s passions.

the spiritual interiorization not only of the world, but of the
ultimate reason for the existence has been the nutrient of mollino’s
entire work.
he was a student of the occult, and guided by the past, in particular,
he was fascinated by the tomb of the egyptian royal architect ’kha’
(ca. 1390-1352 B.C.E).
mollino, a lively and highly creative person loved life so much that
he wanted to replicate every aspect of it and carry it to the
kingdom of the dead.
it was known to him that ‘kha’ decorated his own future tomb
in his spare time, and that’s what mollino did with his 18th
century apartment.
in 1960, on the po river in turin, mollino took possession of
a villa, the 'warrior’s house of rest'. he never spent a single night there.
casa mollino was his private pyramid.
an eclectic space, carefully created by his own aesthetic sense,
made up of reminiscences of his life that appear among mirrors,
lace curtains and velvet. mollino’s physical space of eternity,
decorated only with things to be taken along.