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Piero Fornasetti, "Architettura" Filing Cabinet

Lot Closed

October 7, 05:49 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

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Piero Fornasetti

"Architettura" Filing Cabinet


circa 1956

lithographic transfer-print on metal

with the firm's paper label

19 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 19 7/8 in. (50.2 x 50.2 x 50.5 cm)

Barnaba Fornasetti, Milan

Christie's Los Angeles, Important Design: The Life of Piero Fornasetti, May 16, 1998, lot 49

Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, October 2, 1991-January 19, 1992

Stephen Greengard, "Practical Follies: Fornasetti, Italy's Master of Functional Surrealism," Art & Antiques, Summer 1988, p. 84

Patrick Mauries, Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams, exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1991, p. 117

Barnaba Fornasetti, ed., Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, New York, 2010, p. 396