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拍品專文
This stunning marriage of architecture and furniture is the original piece modified by Fornasetti from the prototype designed in 1951 by himself and Gio Ponti (now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum). From this model a limited edition of approximately twenty was produced in the 1950s and 1960s, and reintroduced in an edition of ten in the 1980s. The accompanying set of templates provides clues as to how various architectural sketches from 17th and 18th Century prints, such as Alessi's Palace at Genoa, were modified into a single illusionistic pastiche. When one opens the doors of the trumeaux and enters into the interior of this fictitious palace, the metal apsidal space at the center of the camaflouged glass shelves is magically suspended over the steps, providing the viewer with a window into yet another world.
cf. Martin Eidelberg, Designed for Delight: Alternative Aspects of 20th Century Decorative Arts, (Montreal exh. cat.), 1997, p. 243
cf. Martin Eidelberg, Designed for Delight: Alternative Aspects of 20th Century Decorative Arts, (Montreal exh. cat.), 1997, p. 243