Piero Fornasetti

Practical Madness

$100.00

‘Folding papers, numerous full-colour illustrations and inserted leaflets printed on the most tactile of papers, make this book an object akin to Fornasetti’s most beloved and collectible creations’ somethingaboutmagazine.com

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Description

Piero Fornasetti was a master of the decorative imagination. He employed illusionism, architectural perspectives and a host of personal leitmotifs – the sun, playing cards, still lifes, libraries, harlequins, newspapers, the face of a once-famous opera singer – in seemingly endless variations on plates, chairs, desks, screens, scarves, cabinets and decorative objects of every kind. As Gio Ponti, his friend and collaborator said: ‘he makes objects speak.’

Fornasetti’s oeuvre is celebrated here in a publication that marks him out as a virtuoso conjurer of dream and illusion. Captured in paintings, drawings and photographs from the family and studio archives, Fornasetti’s designs testify to a unique imaginative genius.