He died, struck down by a heart attack, in 1973, but there are some who swear that his spirit still haunts the apartment at no. He designed legendary works of architecture and astonishing pieces of furniture-which we will not attempt to list-and was systematically and impulsively in love with women, skiing, the mountains, speed, flight, photography, forms, the occult and the geometry of life. At the age of 28 he published a fictionalized autobiography, Vita di Oberon. A peerless designer and aesthete, born into an upper middle-class family in Turin in 1905, Mollino displayed an extraordinary talent for drawing from an early age: he was able to work on two different projects at the same time, drawing with two hands and two pencils, on two sheets of paper. If someone were to draw up a league table of the geniuses who made the 20th century great, Carlo Mollino would certainly be in the top ten.
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