Breaking the rules

Book-case with suspended shelves, designed by Carlo Mollino for the Casa Editrice Lattes publishing house, Turin, 1952.

A book on Italian designer Carlo Mollino lavishly showcases his fantastically engineered furniture, but, writes Emma Dent Coad, he had other strings to his bow

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