The Ghost of Carlo Mollino’s Best Table Has Finally Arrived - Yanko Design

The Ghost of Carlo Mollino’s Best Table Has Finally Arrived - Yanko Design

Some designs don’t age. They just wait. The Vertebra table by Carlo Mollino has spent the last 75 years doing exactly that, existing in the margins of design history as a tantalizing “what if.” Created in 1950, the piece was only ever realized in two physical examples, both of which eventually found their way to auction houses where collectors paid serious money to own a slice of Mollino’s particular brand of genius. The rest of us could only st…