title: The Furniture of Carlo Mollino
author:  Fulvio Ferrari 
description: Fulvio Ferrari has been studying the work and life of Carlo Mollino since the early 1980s, having organized the first exhibition of his work in 1985 and co-founded the Museo Casa Mollino in Turin in 1999. He also curated 'Italian Design 1951-73' in 1984 in Munich and has published several books on the work of Mollino, the furniture of Gabetti &amp; Isola and the ceramics of Ettore Sottsass, amongst others. Napoleone Ferrari co-founded the Museo Casa Mollino in Turin. He is co-author of two books on Mollino's photography and of Luce, a book on Italian lighting design of the late 1960s.
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  # A RUN WITH ROSALIE.
  
  
  ### William Le Queux
  
  
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  SEVERAL months had elapsed since my adventure with "Valentine of the Beautiful
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  From Germany Count Bindo di Ferraris had sent me with the car right across
  Europe to Florence, where, at Nenci's the builders
  
  
  of motor-bodies, I, in obedience to orders, had it repainted a bright yellow —
  almost the colour of mustard.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  When, a fortnight later, it came out of the Nenci works, I hardly recognised
  it. At Bindo's orders I had had a second body
  
  
  built, one made of wicker, and lined inside with glazed white leather, which,
  when fixed upon the chassis, completely transformed
  
  
  it. This second body I sent by rail down to Leghorn, and then drove the car
  along the Arno valley, down to the sea-shore.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  My orders were to go to the Palace Hotel at Leghorn, and there await my
  master. The hotel in question 