'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
See InsidePiero 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.
'A handsome new volume, thoughtfully edited… it is a valuable object in itself, its design an example of how to make high-end art books remain covetable'
World of Interiors
Format: Hardback without Jacket
Size: 33.0 x 19.0 cm
Extent: 288 pp
Publication date: 13 April 2015
ISBN: 9780500239377