Mid-Century

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. ...

When the High Court of Punjab and Haryana opened in March 1955, every committee chair, library seat and demountable workstation inside it was a Pierre Jeanneret design — and seventy-one years later, those same teak-and-cane typologies are the second great mid-century price story after Eames. Chandigarh furniture, as the trade now calls it, was built for the civic interiors of the Capitol Complex that Le Corbusier drew between 1951 and 1965; it was declared obsolete in batches between the 1980s and the early 2000s; it was repatriated, restored, and resold by a small number of European dealers; and it has, since roughly 2007, run a parallel canon to the Cassina LC series whose 1928 Paris drawings sit at the other end of the same architects’ careers. ...