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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The cycle of his professional existence was focused on that “modern construc- tion” which without indulgence and without facile consent for changing fas- hions always involved total concentration on the liveliest most up-to-date and most sensitive aspects of the constructor. It is a testimony to a human and tech- nical exactitude at whatever cost. Even when tackling apparently conventional issues he relentlessly searched for anti-conventional solutions which were equally distant from banality and formal authority Countless attempts have been made to define him. Today we fear dredging them up incautiously. And yet we are not able to free ourselves of the old conceptual modes. because – for almost everyone – Mollino was impossible to grasp in his entirety. At the same time his virtues and defects – almost puzzlingly reduced to slogans (which he abhorred) in the rush to come up with potted verdicts run the risk of appearing today as the false key to understanding his work and his personality. Indeed none of these false keys are capable on their own of revealing his resounding surprising frightening and yet at the same time quintessentially human richness. It will require the concourse of innumerable persons with the right degree of responsibility competence interest and affection to recompose an image that in our eyes and our hearts is still today rent by the pain of separation. (MP)