A HIGH-BACK WING ARMCHAIR, DESIGNED CIRCA 1950

Franco Campo and Carlo Graffi were introduced to Carlo Mollino whilst studying architecture at the Polytechnic of Turin in the late 1940s. In these two young students Mollino sensed a kinship of spirit and invited them to work alongside him, encouraging them to create their own designs for furniture, that were executed by the same Apelli & Varesio workshop that Mollino himself employed to execute his own furniture. The range of furniture designs conceived by Campo and Graffi displayed a surrealistic liberty of spirit, often referencing anthropomorphic structures that were invested with sensuality, and contributing to the ‘Turinese Baroque’ style that briefly flourished in that city during the early 1950s.