Fornasetti, Designer of Dreams
Language: English
Published by Bulfinch Press, Boston, 1991
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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First American edition. Large quarto volume in dust jacket. Color and B&W illustrations. Condition: minor bump to bottom of spine; else fine in fine DJ. 288 pages.
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- Title
- Fornasetti, Designer of Dreams
- Author
- Patrick Mauries (text); Ettore Sottsass (essay); Christopher Wilk (foreword)
- Publisher
- Bulfinch Press, Boston
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0821218727
- ISBN 13
- 9780821218723
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 5 pounds
- Dimensions
- 9.25 inches width by 12.25 inches height by 1.25 inches depth
â Glorious . . . almost as good as owning one of the things themselves.â â The World of Interiors
Piero Fornasetti lived and worked in Milan from 1935 until his death in 1988. During this long career he established an enduring reputation as a designer with a style that was distinctly his ownâ a style based on illusion, architectural perspectives, and a host of personal leitmotifs, such as the sun, playing cards, fish, and flowers, from which he spun seemingly endless variations.Fornasetti applied his decorative vocabulary to an astonishing array of objectsâ hats, vests, pipes, ashtrays, chairs, plates, cabinets, pianos, ocean linersâ and transformed them by the application of unexpected images.
Today his work seems more contemporary and is more popular than ever. Designers and collectors celebrate his use of allusion, unsettling images, and striking juxtaposition to create unique, whimsical objects. Fornasettiâ s masterpieces continue to shock, delight, and inspire. 116 color and 484 black-and-white photographs and illustrations
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[A book] we are fortunate to have back in print. "
By ignoring the winds of fashion, Fornasetti often presaged it and eventually outlasted it. . . . He invented a world that was simply too enchanting to be real.
In an age of sleek, unadorned Modernism, Fornasetti ran counter to and took joyous delight in decorating anything and everything.
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