Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Italian, 1913-1988
The Italian artist and designer Piero Fornasetti was one of the wittiest and most imaginative 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 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 decorative objects to dinner plates, table lamps and umbrella stands. His work is archly clever, often Surrealist 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 Fornasetti's 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 the artist's collaborator and patron. Beginning in the early 1950s, they created a striking 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: Piero Fornasetti
Oinochoe Plate - for Martini & Rossi, by P. Fornasetti, 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Roma, IT
This Oinochoe is an elegant silk-screened porcelain plate, designed by Piero Fornasetti for Martini&Rossi in 1960s .
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1960s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti “Commedia” Ceramic Paperweight and Cup Pair
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“I have thus dressed ceramics, furniture, and things in signs, and in that way I have placed a message in every work — a small story that is sometimes ironic, obviously wordless, but...
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1960s Italian Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Set of 6 Vintage Fornasetti Calligraphy Bird black outline plates Milan
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Set of 6 vintage plates - black decal calligraphy in bird motif - Uccelli Calligrafica on Arzberg and Schonfeld blanks.
Some rubbing off of pattern on plates as photographed
Perfect ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
FORNASETTI Vintage Table Lamp
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Italian table lamp with painted metal decorated with various writing instruments, pen, pencil and quill / made in Milan Italy in the 1980s
Original label on the base
1 light ...
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Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
Rare Silk Cravat by Piero Fornasetti for Pipe Enthusiasts
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Vienna, AT
This tie, designed around 1970's by well-known Italian artist Piero Fornasetti and currently not anymore in production, features an original and classy pipe pattern. Excellently pres...
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Late 20th Century Italian Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Silk
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Conchiglie Seashell Plate With Snails and Mollusks
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Conchiglie Seashell Plate With Snails and Mollusks,
#8,
Circa 1960s-70s
The Fornasetti plate is decorated in the Conchiglie pattern which depicts differen...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti Umbrella Holder
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Metal umbrella stand by Piero Fornasetti. Italy, circa 1960. With a brass rim and wonderful printed gold cameos throughout depicting ancient subjects. There are minor losses to the s...
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20th Century Italian Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Brass
Umbrella Stand by Piero Fornasetti, 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Staffanstorp, SE
Rare and exclusive umbrella stand or wastebasket designed by the legendary Piero Fornasetti, Italy. Featuring the iconic “Pelle di Leopardo” pattern from the 1960s, this striking pie...
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1960s Hollywood Regency Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
Piero Fornasetti set of eight Monkeys ceramic coasters, Italy 1950s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Milan, IT
Piero Fornasetti set of eight Monkeys ceramic coasters,
From the "Ne sont tous chevaliers qui sur cheval montent" series
Italy 1950s
Original box.
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Piero Fornasetti Astrolabio Plate 1955 Italy
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Milano, IT
Piero Fornasetti plate.
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1950s Italian Other Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Red Strumenti Musicali Music Metal Bookends
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Red Strumenti Musicali music metal bookends,
Circa 1960.
The Piero Fornasetti L-shaped bookends are decorated with a red-ground...
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1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
Anfora Spagnuola Detta "Porron" by Piero Fornasetti for Martini & Rossi, 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Roma, IT
Anfora Spagnuola Detta "Porron" is an elegant silk-screened porcelain plate, designed by Piero Fornasetti for Martini & Rossi in 1960s .
In excellent condition.
Black and white c...
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1960s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Grande Mortaio Bronzeo by Piero Fornasetti for Martini & Rossi, 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Roma, IT
Grande Mortaio Bronzeo is an elegant silk-screened porcelain plate, designed by Piero Fornasetti for Martini & Rossi in 1960s .
In excellent condition.
Black and white ceramic Fo...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Wicker Cornucopia with Flowers, Roses and Pomegranates Tray
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Milan, IT
Piero Fornasetti Cornucopia with Flowers early serving tray.
Original Label.
Featuring a Wicker Cornucopia holding Flowers, Roses, Pomegranates and...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
Piero Fornasetti Ashtray Ceramic 1956 Italy
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Milano, IT
Piero Fornasetti.
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1950s Italian Other Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Set of P. Fornasetti Decorative Porcelain Plates for Martini & Rossi, 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Piero Fornasetti complete collection of twelve decorated and enamelled porcelain plates. Limited edition for Martini & Rossi of Turin, inspired by the main pieces of the Casa Martini...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Truck Decorated Piero Fornasetti White Glass Jars and Covers Made for Fiat
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Trucks!
Piero Fornasetti opaque white glass jars and covers with trucks or lorry motif made for Fiat, Six Jars,
circa 1960.
The truck-motif glass jars with lids were ...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Glass
Capricorn Astrological Sign - Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Zodiac Paperweight
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Pebble Capricorn Zodiac Paperweight,
Titled Capricornus for the Astrological Sign Capricorn,
Circa 1960
The oval ceramic...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plates, A Pair Decorated with Sea Shells and Anemones
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Pair of Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plates,
decorated with sea anemones, urchins and shells,
#7 & #12 from Conchiglie Pattern,
Circa 1960-1970s.
The Fornasetti plates are dec...
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Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti for Fleming Joffe “Iguana and Chicken Breasts” Recipe Plate, 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in San Francisco, CA
A rare 1960s Piero Fornasetti for Fleming Joffe Ltd. “Iguana and Chicken Breasts” recipe hand-decorated and gilt porcelain “Cook Plate”.
Wonderfully wry recipe for an absurdly impro...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
"Capelli" 'Hats' Patterned Umbrella Stand by Piero Fornasetti
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is a rare umbrella stand by Piero Fornasetti, utilizing a Capelli or hat pattern as a motif. Clustered colorful hats line the front of the stand. An umbrella stand is fixed to t...
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1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Tin, Iron
Fornasetti Porcelain Cup of Coffee Gold “Ponte Corso Venezia”, 1950
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Milano, IT
Fornasetti porcelain cup of coffee gold “Ponte Corso Venezia”, 1950, Italia.
Category
1950s Italian Other Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
MCM Boxed set of 8 Fornasetti Vini E Liquori Ceramic Coasters for Rosenfeld
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Nantucket, MA
Set of eight white ceramic coasters in the Vini E Liquori pattern by Fornasetti for Rosenfeld Importers. Each decorated in black and gold on white ceramic. Each coaster is decorated ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
FORNASETTI Vintage Table Lamp
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Italian table lamp with painted metal decorated with book motif and butterfly (lithographical and transfer-printed) and brass / made in Milan Italy in the 1980s
Original labe...
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Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
Piero Fornasetti Framed Set of Coasters of the Months, "12 Mesi, 12 Soli" design
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Framed Piero Fornasetti Framed Set of Coasters,
"12 Mesi, 12 Soli" design,
Coasters Early 1960s
The six large ceramic coasters are from the "12 Mesi,...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Piero Fornasetti Box Wood Metal Crome Gold, 1960, Italy
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Milano, IT
Piero Fornasetti box wood metal crome gold, 1960, Italy.
Category
1960s Italian Other Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Wood
Piero Fornasetti Posacenere Ore Quotidiano” Ceramica 1950, Italia
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Milano, IT
Piero Fornasetti Posacenere measure: 24".
Category
1950s Italian Other Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Fornasetti Set of 6 Plates for Martini and Rossi Porcelain, 1970, Italy
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Milano, IT
Fornasetti series of 6 plates for the Martini and Rossi of Turin inspired by the major pieces of his Pessione Museum.
Category
1970s Italian Other Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Fornasetti 1950s Beer Steins with Nautical Motifs
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pair of beer steins by Piero Fornasetti from the 1950s, never reissued and relatively rare. Crest/rope/nautical/seafaring motifs. Pictured in Fornasetti’s Complete Universe book...
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Set of Two Plates "Grandi Maestri" by P. Fornasetti, 1967
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Roma, IT
Set of two plates "Grandi Maestri" is an original decorative object realized by the Italian artist and designer Piero Fornasetti (Milan, 1909-1988) in 1967.
Made by Fornasetti, Mi...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Adamo / Adam Porcelain Plate Number 12, Signed, Excellent
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Kansas City, MO
Piero Fornasetti Adamo / Adam porcelain plate # 12. Signed. Excellent condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Conchiglie Seashell Plate with Mollusks, #9
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Conchiglie Seashell Plate With Snails and Mollusks,
#9,
Circa 1960s-70s
The Fornasetti plate is decorated in the Conchigl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Mid-century Modern Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Appetizer Fish Kebab Dishes and Tray
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Appetizer Fish Kebab Dishes and Serving Tray,
1960s
There are four ceramic deep rectangular dishes placed in a long rectangular gold metal tray with handles at each end.
The trays together display a single large fish kebab on a skewer with each dish showing one part of the kebab. The kebab holds two different fish, shrimp, lemon slices, olives, egg slices...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Piero Fornasetti Hice Holder Brass Metal, 1955, Italy
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Milano, IT
Ice Holder Piero Fornasetti.
Category
1950s Italian Other Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Brass
Vintage PIero Fornasetti Chariot Porcelain Gilded Coasters Barware Set of 8
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in North Miami, FL
These vintage hallmarked Piero Fornasetti coasters are porcelain with gold. They are of the Roman Chariot design. Marked Fornasetti MIlano Made In Ita...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Gold
Piero Fornasetti Coffee Table-Neoclassical Bordo Bassorilievo Pattern
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Bordo Bassorilievo pattern coffee table,
circa 1955.
The table is decorated with painting and lithographic transfer-pri...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Wood
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Cook Plates-Calcutta Minestrone and Corfam Du Pont
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Recipe Cook Plates,
Calcutta Minestrone and Corfam A La Du Pont,
Made for Fleming Joffe,
Silkscreen & Transfer,
1960s-early 70s.
These two Piero Fornasetti porcelain plates are from a series made for the Fleming Joffe hide company in New York City. These were originally given as a pair to clients in a box with a cardboard box with a faux hide covering. It is very rare to find two plates staying together like these.
Included with the two plates is the paper separator and the original Thank you card...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
20th Century Piero Fornasetti Umbrella Stand Theme Bottles Wine in Printed Metal
By Fornasetti, Piero Fornasetti
Located in Turin, Turin
Umbrella stand by Piero Fornasetti themed with bottles on a typical italian wine barrel, in silkscreened sheet metal from the 1950s. Good condition...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Sheet Metal, Brass
Fornasetti Coffee Cup Porcelain Gold “I Ponti Di Milano “Ponte San Cristoforo”
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Milano, IT
Fornasetti coffee cup porcelain gold “Ponte San Cristoforo”, 1950.
Category
1950s Other Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Moro Head Vase by Piero Fornasetti, Italy, 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Roma, IT
Magnificent enameled gold ceramic vase by Piero Fornasetti (Milan 1913-1988), considered among the most original and creative talents of the 21st century.
A rare piece depicting the ...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Carro Vinario - for Martini & Rossi, by P. Fornasetti, 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Roma, IT
Carro Vinario is a silk-screened porcelain plate, designed by Piero Fornasetti for Martini & Rossi in 1960s .
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Alambicco - for Martini & Rossi, by P. Fornasetti, 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Roma, IT
Alambicco per la distillazione dell'alcool is an elegant silk-screened porcelain plate, designed by Piero Fornasetti for Martini & Rossi in 1960s .
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Il Primo Tino - for Martini & Rossi, by P. Fornasetti, 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Roma, IT
Il Primo Tino - for Martini & Rossi is a silk-screened porcelain plate, designed by Piero Fornasetti for Martini & Rossi in 1960s .
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Trozzella - for Martini & Rossi, by P. Fornasetti, 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Roma, IT
Trozzella Leccese - for Martini & Rossi is a silk-screened porcelain plate, designed by Piero Fornasetti for Martini & Rossi in 1960s .
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plate with Coats of Armour, the Armature Pattern
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
This rare Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate from the Armature pattern is number one in the series.
The black and white lithographically-decorated and hand painted porcelain plate i...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Italian Cameo Medallion Coffee Table
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Unique mid century modern Italian coffee table by Piero Fornasetti. Cameo medallions gold leaf on white lacquered wood. Tripod black enamel metal base. Verso beats a stamp of Piero F...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
20th Century Piero Fornasetti Bowl With Letter S
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Epfach, DE
Piero Fornasetti bowl with letter S
The beautiful decorative bowl with gilding is also a wonderful gift. The condition is very good, the gilding is not scuffed. You can put it and ha...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Umbrella Stand by Piero Fornasetti, Italy, 1950s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in New York, NY
Metal umbrella stand in trompe l’oeil lithography depicting a Collie. Original condition.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
Piero Fornasetti, wall mirror, wooden support covered with screen prints.
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Nice, Cote d' Azur
Piero Forna,
wall mirror,
wooden support covered with screen prints with neo-classical decoration of flowers and mythological scenes,
circa 1960, Italy.
Height 85 cm, width 64 cm, de...
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1960s Italian Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Wood
'Bassoitti' Metal Umbrella Stand by Piero Fornasetti
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Montreal, QC
Bassoitti lithographically printed and painted metal umbrella stand by Piero Fornasetti for Fornasetti Milano.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal
Piero Fornasetti Strumenti Musicali Magazine Rack, 1950s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Miami, FL
A rare and early magazine stand or portariviste designed and manufactured by the Italian master of playful and surreal self-expression Piero Fornasetti in the 1950s. The vintage rack...
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass, Enamel
Il Primo Tino Plate for Martini & Rossi, by P. Fornasetti, 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Roma, IT
Il Primo Tino, for Martini & Rossi is a silk-screened porcelain plate, designed by Piero Fornasetti for Martini & Rossi in 1960s.
Excellent conditions: as good as new.
This is a black and white ceramic Fornasetti wall plate, representing the first Martini, Sola & C.gnia Pessio's vat for the vermouth production, described with a golden caption and titled on the front.
Marked on the back with the description of the series, the title of the plate, and the Fornasetti logo:
Serie di piatti creata da Piero Fornasetti per la Martini and Rossi...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Rhyton Plate for Martini & Rossi, by P. Fornasetti, 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Roma, IT
Rhyton is a silk-screened porcelain plate, designed by Piero Fornasetti for Martini & Rossi in 1960s.
Excellent conditions: as good as new.
This is a black and white ceramic Fornasetti wall plate, representing the oldest drinking vessel ever found, the Apulian rhyton. With a very detailed golden caption and title on the front of the plate.
Marked on the back with the description of the series, the title of the plate, and the Fornasetti logo:
"Serie di piatti creata da Piero Fornasetti per la Martini and Rossi...
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1960s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fornasetti Gold and White Porcelain Bell
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Winnetka, IL
This is a unique and rare fornasetti gold and white porcelain bell from Italy.
Category
1950s Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Trozzella Plate for Martini & Rossi, by P. Fornasetti, 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Roma, IT
Trozzella Leccese - for Martini & Rossi is a silk-screened porcelain plate, designed by Piero Fornasetti for Martini & Rossi in 1960s.
Excellent conditions: as good as new.
Black and white ceramic Fornasetti wall plate, finely decorated with the illustration of the Apulian Leccese "Trozzella" vase, with the golden explicative text and the title on the front.
Marked on the back with the description of the series, the title of the plate, and the Fornasetti's logo.
"Serie di piatti creata da Piero Fornasetti per la Martini and Rossi...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Eight Vintage Fornasetti Ceramic Coasters in the "Vini E Liquori" Pattern
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Nantucket, MA
Eight drinks coasters designed by Piero Fornasetti in the 'Vini E Liquori' pattern, each depicting a different liquor bottle label in 22 karat gold.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Fornasetti ‘Opera’ decorative dishes, vintage pair (ashtrays, wall decorations)
By Piero Fornasetti, Fornasetti
Located in London, GB
Piero Fornasetti, Italy (designer)
'Melodramma' (Opera) series decorative dishes, (dishes, ashtrays, wall decorations)
No.2: Pollione (Norma by Vincenzo Bellini)
No.21: Otello (Ote...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Set of Seven Plates 'Velieri' by Piero Fornasetti, 1960s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Roma, IT
Set of seven plates "Velieri" is an original set of decorative objects realized by the Italian artist and designer Piero Fornasetti (Milan, 1909-1988) in the 1960s.
Made by Fornaset...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Piero Fornasetti Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Piero 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 Piero Fornasetti furniture, although gray editions of this piece are particularly popular. We have 391 vintage editions of these items in-stock, while there is 1 modern edition to choose from as well. Many of the original furniture by Piero 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 Archimede Seguso, Flavio Poli, and Richard Ginori. Prices for Piero Fornasetti furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $120 and can go as high as $54,990, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $1,262.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 1stDibs ExpertMay 14, 2024Piero Fornasetti is famous for his work as a designer. The Italian artist was one of the wittiest and most imaginative talents of the 20th century. Fornasetti 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 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 decorative objects to dinner plates, table lamps and umbrella stands. His work is archly clever, often Surrealist and always fun. On 1stDibs, shop an assortment of Piero Fornasetti pieces.
- 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.
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Piero Fornasetti Bowls and Baskets
Piero Fornasetti Platters and Serveware
Piero Fornasetti Racks and Stands
Piero Fornasetti Barware
Piero Fornasetti Ceramics
Piero Fornasetti Table Lamps
Piero Fornasetti Decorative Art
Piero Fornasetti Boxes
Piero Fornasetti Desk Accessories
Piero Fornasetti Coffee and Cocktail Tables