Carlo Mollino

Carlo Mollino (6 May 1905 – 27 August 1973) was an Italian architect, designer, and photographer based in Turin. He worked across architecture, interior design, furniture, photography, and writing, and also designed a racing car and competed in aerobatic flying.

Mollino's architecture combined Alpine vernacular traditions with modernist engineering and surrealist ideas. His buildings include the Slittovia del Lago Nero (1946–47), the Camera di Commercio di Torino (1965–73), and the Teatro Regio di Torino (1965–73). He also wrote prose fiction, criticism, and a volume on photography history, Il Messaggio dalla Camera Oscura (1949).

His furniture, designed as components of complete interiors rather than standalone objects, has commanded high prices on the international art and design market. After his death, hundreds of nude photographs were discovered, taken between 1956 and 1973 in private studios on the Turin hillside.