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Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) created this interior

Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) designed this house in Helsinki, Finland

MODERN ORIGINALS
ver wanted to step inside the front door of the
home of Le Corbusier, Alva Aalto, Gae Aulenti
or Robin and Lucienne Day? Gaining exclusive access
to homes that are often closed to the public, Leslie
Williamson, renowned photographer and author,
provides a rare glimpse of the interiors intact and as
they were lived in by their designers in the book Modern
Originals – At home with midcentury European Designers.
Examples include the iconic Studio Achille Castiglioni

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Modern Originals
by Leslie Williamson
published by Rizzoli
www.rizzoliusa.com

in Milan; the Helsinki home of Aino and Alvar Aalto
with signs of functionalism preserved; Finn Juhl’s
Scandinavian farmhouse with warm woods and bursts
of primary colours; and Carlo Mollino’s eccentric
Modern Originals is a portrait of both the iconic and
sometimes unknown masters of midcentury European
modernism creating and expressing their ideas for the
most demanding of clients – themselves.

Bruno Mathsson
(1907-1988) designed this
house for himself on a lake
outside Varnamo, Sweden

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