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BY PIERO FORNASETTI, C.1955, AFTER A DESIGN BY PIERO FORNASETTI AND GIO PONTI
Details
'Architettura', A Lithographically-Printed Wood and Metal Trumeau
By Piero Fornasetti, c.1955, After a Design by Piero Fornasetti and Gio Ponti
One of approximately 20 example executed in the 1950s, the raised superstructure with panel doors opening to reveal glass shelves, framing an elongated recess containing glazed stoneware figure attributed to Fausto Melotti, above a hinged fall and three long drawers, on square ebonised feet
86in. (219cm.) height; 16in. (41cm.) depth; 31½in. (80cm.) width
Marked with plastic label FORNASETTI MILANO
By Piero Fornasetti, c.1955, After a Design by Piero Fornasetti and Gio Ponti
One of approximately 20 example executed in the 1950s, the raised superstructure with panel doors opening to reveal glass shelves, framing an elongated recess containing glazed stoneware figure attributed to Fausto Melotti, above a hinged fall and three long drawers, on square ebonised feet
86in. (219cm.) height; 16in. (41cm.) depth; 31½in. (80cm.) width
Marked with plastic label FORNASETTI MILANO
Literature
Patrick Mauriès, Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1991, pp. 100-101 the model illustrated
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