Fornasetti Face

The metafisical face design makes this hand-silkscreened metal lamp base an eye-catcher in any setting.

An exceptional example of the unique artistry of Piero Fornasetti, this iconic “Face” Pendant Light from the 1960s is a striking piece of Italian design history.

Fornasetti porcelain plate with face made with arranged vegetables.

Fornasetti porcelain plate with face made with arranged vegetables.

Fornasetti porcelain plate with face made with arranged vegetables.

Fornasetti Porcelain plate with face made with arranged vegetables.

Fornasetti Porcelain Plate with face made with arranged vegetables.

Although Fornasetti faced challenges adapting to evolving design trends in the '60s and '70s, his legacy was eventually rediscovered and celebrated through exhibitions and publicatio...

Piero Fornasetti Pottery Arcimboldesca Vegetable Face Plate, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Number 12, Circa 1960's-70s The pottery plates are after Giuseppe Arcimboldo-the design of a ...

Pietro Fornasetti, Rare metal bookend from the 1950s (First edition) In the extraordinary creative imagination of Pietro Fornasetti every household object is transformed and embelli...

Cavalieri, an operatic soprano, was Fornasetti's eternal muse; he discovered her face in a 19th-century French magazine and returned to it throughout his career.

Fornasetti Tema e Variazioni Plate No. 74, Clock Face, Lina Cavalieri, Milan Atelier Fornasetti, Milan, 1990s Timeless beauty, taken literally.

This specific variation, Pattern Number 52, features the enigmatic face of Piero Fornasetti’s muse, the opera singer Lina Cavalieri, manipulated into a dramatic, elongated distortion.

Ceramic construction with unique repeating 360 degree profile of a face in the style of Fornasetti, Pedro Friedeberg, Salvador Dalí­ or Johnathon Adler.

Multi face Buddha head vase by TMS Inc Vitruvian collection, 2006 Perpeptual face design in matte white ceramic with upper crown of intricate coils Signed and dated to lower edge 8...

"Sicilian Surrealism": Fornasetti "Tema e Variazioni" Trinacria Plate, (Face with Three Legs), 1990's A striking and surreal porcelain wall plate from the iconic "Themes & Variatio...

Multi face ceramic vase in black by TMS Inc Vitruvian Collection 2005 Perpetual face design in the style of Piero Fornasetti Signed and dated to lower edge 8 inch diameter 9.5 inc...

He crafted an inimitable decorative style from a personal vocabulary of images that included birds, butterflies, hot-air balloons, architecture and, most frequently, an enigmatic wom...

"Fractured Beauty": Fornasetti "Themes & Variations" Plate #46 (Sliced Face) 1990s A dynamic and optical porcelain wall plate from the celebrated "Themes & Variations" (Tema e Varia...

"The Essential Muse": Fornasetti "Themes & Variations" Plate #6 (Floating Face) A surreal and minimalist porcelain wall plate from the celebrated "Themes & Variations" (Tema...

As Fornasetti famously said, "What inspired me to create more than 500 variations on the face of a woman?

The Face of Time: Fornasetti’s Enigmatic Muse Germany, circa 1980–1989 This striking porcelain plate, produced by the esteemed manufacturer Rosenthal, features Motiv 20 from Piero F...

Here the face of Lina Cavalieri, Fornasetti's eternal muse, is multiplied into a row of buttons down a garment front, each round face-button paired with its corded buttonhole, while ...

Fornasetti famously considered her face to be the ultimate archetype of classical beauty.

The surreal design derives from Fornasetti’s lifelong muse, the face of legendary Belle Époque soprano Lina Cavalieri: the left half of the plate presents her face in close-up, while...

Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plate, Tema e Variazioni No. 224, Lina Cavalieri 1980s This Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate from the Tema e Variazioni series presents the face of the It...

This porcelain plate is number 89 in Piero Fornasetti’s Tema e Variazioni, the series he built across his career from a single borrowed face, that of the opera singer Lina Cavalieri.

Cavalieri, an operatic soprano, provided the face Fornasetti discovered in a 19th-century French magazine and never abandoned: "What inspired me to create more than 500 variations on...

Throughout his career, Fornasetti used her face as a formal, graphic template, creating over 350 spontaneous and creative variations.

To Fornasetti, her face was a blank canvas—an archetype similar to a Greek statue or the Mona Lisa.

Design and Allusion The plate centers on the face of Fornasetti's muse, the 19th-century opera singer Lina Cavalieri.

In this beloved motif from the Fornasetti universe, the face of Lina Cavalieri—the famous soprano whom Piero often depicted and reinterpreted across many works—is framed by the sharp...

In this beloved motif from the Fornasetti universe, the face of Lina Cavalieri—the famous soprano whom Piero often depicted and reinterpreted across many works—is framed by the sharp...

In this beloved motif from the Fornasetti universe, the face of Lina Cavalieri—the famous soprano whom Piero often depicted and reinterpreted across many works—is framed by the sharp...

This configuration, where her face becomes the sun itself, exemplifies Fornasetti’s ability to merge the mundane and the mythological.