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Carlo Mollino Table and Two Chairs from the Pavia Restaurant, ca. 1954

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Carlo Mollino Table and Two Chairs from the Pavia Restaurant, ca. 1954
property of calvin tsao and zack mckown Carlo Mollino Table and Two Chairs from the Pavia Restaurant, ca. 1954 solid oak with brass bolts and screws (3) 301/2 x 311/4 x 311/4 in. (77.2 x 79.4 x 79.4 cm) estimate: - $40,000-60,000 Provenance Pavia Restaurant, Cervinia, 1954 Galerie Yves Gastou literature Giovanni Brino, Carlo Mollino: Architecture as Autobiography, Milan, 1987, p. 138 (for an illustration of the table) Paola Antonelli, ed., Sitting on the Edge: Modernist Design from the Collection of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd, San Francisco, 1998, pl. 75 (for the table) For the Pavia café table, Mollino drew on traditional rustic designs for inspiration. The complex leg system is distinguished by the thru-tenon joinery. The Pavia restaurant was located in the same ski resort as Mollino's earlier Casa del Sole (1947-1955), in which Mollino first employed the iconic chair design. For an essay on the chair model, see Phillips New York, December 12, 2001, Lot 173.