Fornasetti Furniture
The Italian artist, illustrator and furniture maker Piero Fornasetti was one of the wittiest and most imaginative design talents of the 20th century. He crafted an inimitable decorative style from a personal vocabulary of images that included birds, butterflies, hot-air balloons, architecture and — most frequently, and in some 500 variations — an enigmatic woman’s face based on that of the 19th-century opera singer Lina Cavalieri. Fornasetti used transfer prints of these images, rendered in the style of engravings, to decorate an endless variety of furnishings and housewares that ranged from chairs, tables and desks to dinner plates, lamps and umbrella stands. His work is archly clever, often surreal and always fun.
Fornasetti was born in Milan, the son of an accountant, and he lived his entire life in the city. He showed artistic talent as a child and enrolled at Milan’s Brera Academy of Fine Art in 1930, but was expelled after two years for consistently failing to follow his professors’ orders. A group of his hand-painted silk scarves, displayed in the 1933 Triennale di Milano, caught the eye of the architect and designer Gio Ponti, who, in the 1940s, became Fornasetti’s collaborator and patron. Beginning in the early 1950s, they created a striking a series of desks, bureaus and secretaries that pair Ponti’s signature angular forms with Fornasetti’s decorative motifs — lighthearted arrangements of flowers and birds on some pieces, austere architectural imagery on others. The two worked together on numerous commissions for interiors, though their greatest project has been lost: the first-class lounges and restaurants of the luxury ocean liner Andrea Doria, which sank in 1956.
Fornasetti furnishings occupy an unusual and compelling niche in the decorative arts: they are odd yet pack a serious punch. They act, essentially, as functional sculpture. A large Fornasetti piece such as a cabinet or a desk can change the character of an entire room; his smaller works have the aesthetic power of a vase of flowers, providing a bright and alluring decorative note. The chimerical, fish-nor-fowl nature of Fornasetti’s work may be its greatest strength. It stands on its own. Bringing the Fornasetti look into the future is Barnaba Fornasetti, who took the reins of the company after his father's death.
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Creator: Fornasetti
Fornasetti Fish Bowls on Tray, Italy, 1950s
By Fornasetti
Located in Berlin, DE
Set of four Fornasetti Fish Bowls on a Tray, Italy 1950s. The measurements given apply to the tray. One bowl measures 11 x 14 x 3 cm.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Exceptional Table by Piero Fornasetti
By Fornasetti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Rare occasional table featuring classically-rendered decorative faces on a brass tripod base. Great vibrant coloring and attractive fading.
(Please confirm item location NY or NJ ...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Wood
Fornasetti Silk Cushion Sardine Fishes on Red
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
The Fornasetti cushions will add to each room an unexpected detail thanks to the most iconic Italian atelier designs.
Cushion cover material: S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Silk
Fornasetti Cushion Silenzio from the Series Tema e Variazioni Cotton
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
The Fornasetti cushions will add to each room an unexpected detail thanks to the most iconic Italian atelier designs.
The decoration features t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Fornasetti Silk Cushion Mano Hand
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
The Fornasetti cushions will add to each room an unexpected detail thanks to the most iconic Italian atelier designs.
The decoration plays with the anatomic theme in a surreal an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Silk
Fornasetti Set of 2 Silk Cushions Grande Pesce Fish
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
The Fornasetti cushions will add to each room an unexpected detail thanks to the most iconic Italian atelier designs.
It is a set of two cushion...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Silk
Porcelain Plates from the Musical Instruments Series by Piero Fornasetti, 1950s
By Fornasetti, Piero Fornasetti
Located in MIlano, IT
Porcelain plates from the Musical Instruments series by Piero Fornasetti, 1950s
with screen-printed and hand-painted decoration.
Produced and designed in the 1950s by Piero Fornasetti.
Present the brand of the manufacture.
This plate are very rare and in very good conditions, probably never used as plate but just to decorations for a living wall or in a kitchen furniture...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti Silk Cushion Peccato Originale Original Sin
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
The Fornasetti cushions will add to each room an unexpected detail thanks to the most iconic Italian atelier designs.
The decoration features a snake holding the forbidden fruit in its jaws, and surrounded by hand painted leaves. It is inspired by the biblical original sin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Silk
Square Tray by Piero Fornasetti Milano Gun Pattern Metal w. Silkscreen Print
By Fornasetti, Piero Fornasetti
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
The vintage silkscreen printed metal tray designed by Piero Fornasetti in the 1960s features fine detailed depictions of guns spanning several centuries. The silkscreen printing tech...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Mesi and Soli Pair of Plates 12 Suns 12 Months, 1955
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti porcelain plates,
12 suns, 12 months,
Pair of plates
Mid to late 1950s.
The rare Piero Fornasetti "12 Mesi 12 Soli" series plates show the sun as a woman's face and each one represents a different month- May and June. They are numbered five and six.
Dimensions: 10 1/4 inches diameter x 1 inch high.
Mark: Each with Piero Fornasetti printed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti Cushion Chiave Key from the Series Tema e Variazioni Cotton
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
The Fornasetti cushions will add to each room an unexpected detail thanks to the most iconic Italian atelier designs.
The decoration features t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Fornasetti Cushion Abbaglio from the Series Tema e Variazioni Cotton
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
The Fornasetti cushions will add to each room an unexpected detail thanks to the most iconic Italian atelier designs.
The decoration features t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Fornasetti Silk Cushion High Fidelity Cat
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
The Fornasetti cushions will add to each room an unexpected detail thanks to the most iconic Italian atelier designs.
Cushion cover material: S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Silk
'Sole' (Sun) Chair by Fornasetti
By Fornasetti
Located in London, GB
Contemporary production of Piero Fornasetti's design from the Fornasetti Studio.
Transfer printed and hand-colored decoration on wood, in tones of cheerful yellow mottled with ochre,...
Category
2010s Italian Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Cylindrical Handmade Black Pleated Silk Lampshade
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
This cylindrical lampshade in silk with a metal frame is the ideal complement to create, together with the base, a lamp that becomes an art object.
Any minor discrepancies between...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Wood
Fornasetti Cushion Mano Hand from the Series Tema e Variazioni Cotton
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
The Fornasetti cushions will add to each room an unexpected detail thanks to the most iconic Italian atelier designs.
The decoration features t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Fornasetti Porcelain Surrealist Themes & Variation Plate, #260
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Fornasetti porcelain Surrealist Themes & Variation plate #260,
The Snail,
Atelier Fornasetti
The Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts a surreal depic...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti "Gerusalemme Tray" in White/ Black, 100% Wood, Italy 21st Century
By Fornasetti
Located in New York, NY
The tray, the closest thing to a sheet of paper in terms of shape and surface, has always offered Fornasetti great expressive possibilities. This hand-silkscreened model catches the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paint
Fornasetti Leopardo Panel, Handpainted, Italy 21st Century
By Fornasetti
Located in New York, NY
Fornasetti panels are among the best expressions of the mix of functional design and aesthetic exploration that the Atelier is famous for. A single panel will turn a room upside down...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paint
Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Exhibition Poster, Decorative Art, Framed
By Piero Fornasetti, Fornasetti
Located in Stamford, CT
Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Exhibition Poster, Deocrative Art, Framed
PIERO FORNASETTI (1913-1988)
'Fornasetti's Decorative Objects' poster
Italy, 1989
Provenance: Christie...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paper
Rare pair of Barnaba Fornasetti Profilo wall shelves
By Fornasetti
Located in Henley-on Thames, Oxfordshire
Rare pair of Barnaba Fornasetti wall shelves from the “Profilo” series signed and numbered, 3 & 4 out of 99 Italy circa 2010
Possibly originally conceived for a retail installation
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Wood
Fornasetti "Cube with Drawer Ortensia" Multicolor, Wood, Handcrafted Italy 2010s
By Fornasetti
Located in New York, NY
This cube with a drawer is a versatile wooden storage piece of furniture silkscreened, painted and laquered by hand following the Atelier's traditional method. Silkscreened, painted,...
Category
2010s Italian Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer, Paint
Midcentury Box in Enameled Metal and Wood by Piero Fornasetti, Italy 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti, Fornasetti
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury beautiful decorative box by Piero Fornasetti.
It has a enameled metal cover with Fornasetti's iconic playing card motif and a wooden inner compa...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
Fornasetti waste basket
By Piero Fornasetti, Fornasetti
Located in London, GB
Fornasetti waste bin.
Baroque pattern lithographic transfer, and lacquered metal. Green on black ground. With brass trim and brass feet.
Stamp...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass
Fornasetti hand painted decorative plate, "Tema e Variazioni" 78, made in Italy
By Piero Fornasetti, Fornasetti
Located in Milan, IT
Have you ever wondered who's the woman that appears on the iconic Fornasetti plates? You might believe she's just an imaginary muse, dreamed by Piero Fornasetti. Turns out, she's way...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Studio, Pistol Barware Metal Serving Tray, 1960s
By Fornasetti, Piero Fornasetti
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a great studio Fornasetti pistol tray from the 1960s. The design is attributed to Piero Fornasetti, Italy. The stylishly decorative enamel square metal tray features a quirky and cool print of...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Pair of Fornasetti Table Lamps Cammei Cameo Black with White Italy Midcentury
By Fornasetti
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Pair of Classic Fornasetti lamps with black ground and white cameo pattern.
Note that lampshades not included...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
Midcentury Ceramic Centerpiece by Piero Fornasetti, italy
By Fornasetti
Located in Milan, Italy
A ceramic centerpiece designed and produced by Piero Fornasetti in circa 1950. With original label.
Biography
Piero Fornasetti was an Italian engraver, interior decorator, and arti...
Category
1950s Italian Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Fornasetti Frame with Convex Mirror Farfalle Butterflies Color on Black
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
Like all Fornasetti accessories, the mirrors turn an everyday action into an aesthetic experience.
This mirror frame is handcrafted using original artisan techniques. It is silk-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Glass, Wood
Mid-Century Modern Fornasetti Plate, Italy
By Fornasetti
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern Fornasetti Plate, Italy
Category
1950s Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Mid-Century Modern Fornasetti Plate, Italy
By Fornasetti
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern Fornasetti Plate, Italy
Category
1950s Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Mid-Century Modern Fornasetti Plate, Italy
By Fornasetti
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern Fornasetti Plate, Italy
Category
1950s Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Fornasetti Tray Holder Tray Black Wood
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
Fornasetti trays become elegant coffee tables by adding this black wood base. Is suits a 40 cm diameter metal round tray.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Wood
Fornasetti Italy bulls eye convex round mirror brass mid century ring hook
By Fornasetti
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Unusual round multi convex mirror - brass frame with round ring holder...
signed with back gold sticker
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Brass
Fornasetti Mani Umbrella Stand
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Atelier Fornasetti Mani Umbrella Stand,
Signed & Dated 2007
The Fornasetti cylindrical umbrella stand is decorated with the Mani pattern which is an extended arm on a black backg...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
Piero Fornasetti Large Chinoiserie Tray c1950
By Piero Fornasetti, Fornasetti
Located in London, GB
Large Fornasetti tray . c1950
Printed label Fornasetti Milano,
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
Set of 5 Small Plate or Coasters in Porcelain by Piero Fornasetti, Italy 1950s
By Fornasetti, Piero Fornasetti
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury a set of five beautiful black and white small plates or coasters in porcelain displaying drawn animals with money (snail, dog, hen, turtle, duck) by Piero Fornasetti.
Mad...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Fornasetti Red Warrior Chariot/Baghe Lamps
By Fornasetti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Portman Gallery is pleased to offer this pair of vintage mid-century lamps from Fornasetti in good vintage condition, re-wired for the USA. Shades sold separately.
Is there anyon...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass
Fornasetti Theme & Variations Porcelain Plate No. 218 with Original Box
By Fornasetti
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine designer porcelain plate.
By Fornasetti.
From the Theme & Variations series (Tema e Variazioni)
Model no. 218.
With a depiction of Lina Cavalliere's face behind fruit (inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Cylindrical Metal Lamp Base Viso Black/White, Iconical Fornasetti Face Decor
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
The cylindrical shape allows Fornasetti's imagination to create surprising decorative effects in which the shapes follow one another endlessly. The metafisical face design makes this hand-silkscreened metal lamp base...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
"Architecture" Table Lamp by Piero Fornasetti (Original), Italy 1980s
By Fornasetti, Piero Fornasetti
Located in Argelato, BO
"Architecture" table lamp in brass and metal by Piero Fornasetti (Original), Italy, 1980s
Work of the great Italian graphic genius Piero Fornasetti, the "Architettura" lamp represen...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass
Fornasetti Bookends Strumenti Musicali Gold on Red Metal
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
There can be wit and unpredictability in the order: this was Fornasetti idea when he designed his first bookends. The mix of images with their functional design make these accessorie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
Mid century Fornasetti side drink table faux tripod leg iconic face Italy Lina
By Fornasetti
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Iconic face of Lina Cavalieri muse of designer Fornasetti on drinks table.
Great size and look.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
Fornasetti Round Metal Tray Farfalle Butterflies Hand Painted on Red
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
Like all Fornasetti accessories, it is handcrafted using original artisan techniques.
This tray is silk-screened by hand, painted by hand and c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
Vintage Fornasetti mid century round pansy motif serving tray Italy mid century
By Fornasetti
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Classic Fornasetti imagery at its best... pansies on a black ground that fits into traditional modern transitional rooms.
Approx 23.5 inches diameter x 1.5 inches high.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Sheet Metal
Fornasetti Milano Italy Serratura Black and White Keyhole Round Platter Tray
By Fornasetti
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Fornasetti Milano Italy Serratura Black and White "Keyhole" Round Platter Tray. Item features a metal construction, hand-silkscreened and painted, original label, hand numbered to fr...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
20th Century Piero Fornasetti Mirror with Decorative Blue and White Frame, 1950s
By Fornasetti
Located in Turin, Turin
The company's origins start from the art print shop Piero Fornasetti opened in the 1930s in Milan. The "Stamperia d'Arte Fornasetti" enjoyed some success in Milan's cultural milieu; ...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Glass
Fornasetti mid century floral decorated sleeping cat Italy signed mid century
By Fornasetti
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Fornasetti floral decorated sleeping cat - larger version.
mid century Italian design
approx 12 x 7 x 5.5 inches high
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Astrolabe Plate, Number 5
By Fornasetti
Located in Oud Beijerland, NL
The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate depicts an astrolabe, it is number five of twelve in series.
This is a very rare edition with the special mark on the back side "La Production I...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Fornasetti Consolle Bocca Colored Handcrafted Wood
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
The Fornasetti console is a wooden storage piece of furniture silkscreened and laquered by hand following the Atelier's traditional method.
Like ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Wood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti for Winston White Ceramic Ashtray
By Piero Fornasetti, Fornasetti
Located in Aci Castello, IT
A square white ceramic ashtray designed and manufactured by Fornasetti for Winston cigarettes, it features the famous woman's face that we see in many variations of her iconic illust...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Piero Fornasetti Mani Con Farfalle Vase
By Fornasetti
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Piero Fornasetti collaborated with Studio Ars Labor,Industrie Riunite
(S.A.L.I.R.) on a series of cold -painted enamel vases in 1935.
Originally debuted at the VI Triennial of Veni...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Fornasetti Milano Set of 4 Porcelain Plates Archimboldesca Series Vegetable Head
By Piero Fornasetti, Fornasetti
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
A vintage set of four plates by Piero Fornasetti from the "Arcimboldesca" series is a remarkable and artistic collection that embodies the whimsical and imaginative design sensibilit...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Fornasetti hand painted decorative plate, "Tema e Variazioni" 78, made in Italy
By Piero Fornasetti, Fornasetti
Located in Milano, IT
Have you ever wondered who's the woman that appears on the iconic Fornasetti plates? You might believe she's just an imaginary muse, dreamed by Piero Fornasetti. Turns out, she's way...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Green Roman Chariot Race Table Lamp
By Piero Fornasetti, Fornasetti
Located in Miami, FL
A vintage Mid-Century Modern lamp by Piero Fornasetti, the Italian master celebrated for his playful and surreal self-expression. Its striking green body showcases Neoclassical style...
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Brass, Enamel, Metal
Set 12 Porcelain Plates Adamo Black/White/Gold
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
This set of twelve hand-decorated porcelain plates, as a whole, forms the figure of Adamo. You can use the ensemble for ornamental purposes ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti Themes & Variations Porcelain Plate, # 182 with Original Box
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Fornasetti Themes & Variations Porcelain Plate, # 182,
Atelier Fornasetti
The Fornasetti porcelain plate in the Themes & Variation pattern depicts a surreal image of a naked Gree...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Decorative Ceramic Cat Bitossi Fiorato, Gold Flowers on Turquoise
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
A coveted collector’s item as early as the 1950s, Fornasetti cats surprise with the sophisticated decorations that colour their surroundings with sheer ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Fornasetti furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Fornasetti furniture are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of ceramic and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Fornasetti furniture, although gray editions of this piece are particularly popular. We have 136 vintage editions of these items in-stock, while there is 56 modern edition to choose from as well. Many of the original furniture by Fornasetti were created in the mid-century modern style in europe during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by Salviati, Alfredo Barbini, and La Murrina. Prices for Fornasetti furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at £215 and can go as high as £59,160, while a piece like these, on average, fetch £1,279.
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Questions About Fornasetti Furniture
- What is Fornasetti?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Fornasetti is an art design company that produces furniture and home accessories decorated by hand. Piero Fornasetti established the company in Milan, Italy, during the 1950s as his atelier. As of December 2021, his son, Barnaba Fornasetti, heads the company. You'll find a selection of Fornasetti on 1stDibs.
- Who is Piero Fornasetti?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Piero Fornasetti was an Italian artist and designer born in Milan, Italy, in 1913. In 1950, he founded an atelier in the city, creating furniture and home decorations. Fornasetti died on October 9, 1988. His company, Fornasetti, continues to produce hand-decorated decor under the guidance of his son Barnaba Fornasetti. Find a collection of Fornasetti on 1stDibs.
- Where can I buy Fornasetti?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022You can buy Fornasetti directly from the brand's online store. In addition, numerous brick-and-mortar retailers around the world carry Fornasetti pieces. You can also shop for the brand's furniture and home décor on multiple online platforms. You'll find a collection of Fornasetti on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022To burn a Fornasetti candle, first trim the wick to remove any soot. Then, light the candle and allow it to burn for up to three hours. Use a snuffer to extinguish the candle, as blowing out the flame can disturb the wax. Find a collection of Fornasetti on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022How you display Fornasetti plates is largely a matter of personal preference. Some people prefer to rest them flat on a low table or shelf, while others position them upright on plate stands. You can also thread string or twine through the two holes found on the back of every piece and display it as wall art. Find a collection of Fornasetti plates on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Opera singer Natalina ‘Lina’ Cavalieri is the face that inspired Piero Fornasetti throughout his artistic career, from his plates to wallpaper and more. Lina Cavalieri was known as the most beautiful woman in the world during her lifetime from 1874-1944. It was eight years after Cavalieri’s death that Fornasetti came across her image in a magazine and was thereby inspired to replicate it repetitively. On 1stDibs, find a collection of authentic Fornasetti plates from some of the world’s top sellers.
- Is Fornasetti hand painted?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Yes, each and every Fornasetti design is hand made and hand painted. The colors are expertly applied by painters, ensuring no two items are alike. You’ll find a variety of Fornasetti designs from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022To hang Fornasetti plates, thread a length of string through the two small holes found on the tops of their backs. Tie the string in a secure knot and then hang from a nail, screw or hook. Avoid using plate hanger hardware, as it could crack or damage the plates. You'll find a collection of Fornasetti plates on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Fornasetti plates are hand-made in Italy. They continue a tradition of excellent craftsmanship that goes back to founder Piero Fornasetti, who established the atelier during the 1950s. Shop antique and modern Fornasetti plates from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Whether or not Piero Fornasetti images are in the public domain depends on the image. The artist produced more than 11,000 works during his lifetime. Only some no longer carry a copyright and are in the public domain. Shop a range of Fornasetti on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022No, every Fornasetti porcelain figurine is handmade. In fact, the brand produces all of their home decorative items by hand at their workshop in Milan, Italy. If you see indications that a figurine came from a factory, it is likely not an authentic Fornasetti. Shop a collection of expertly vetted Fornasetti on 1stDibs.
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