Carlo Mollino furniture from the Fondo Carlo Mollino at the Politecnico di Torino, now being reissued by Zanotta in 2026 under an Agenzia del Demanio licence covering 30 designs including the Vertebra and Reale tables.

Mid-Century Archive Revivals 2026: Mollino at Zanotta

On 11 May 2026, Domus confirmed that Zanotta had been granted an exclusive licence to manufacture 30 Carlo Mollino designs, awarded by Italy’s Agenzia del Demanio via public tender — the year’s most consequential entry in a wider wave of mid-century archive revivals that runs from Cassina’s Le Corbusier Inédits at Salone del Mobile 2026 back through the same company’s 1965 LC Series, sideways into Pierre Jeanneret’s Chandigarh furniture, and out to the $33.5M Claude Lalanne mirror suite auctioned at Sotheby’s New York three weeks earlier. The Mollino licence closes a circuit that the Cassina template opened in 1964. ...

May 14, 2026 · 12 min · 2382 words · FORMA Editorial

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