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Piero Fornasetti

Cammei table

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Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 EUR

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Description

Piero Fornasetti

Cammei table

Designed circa 1950, our example made circa 1990

Lithographed and lacquered wood and painted wood

With the mark FORNASETTI MILAN MADE IN ITALY on the tabletop

75 x 170 cm ; 29 ½ x 66 ⅞ in.

Christie's, Amsterdam, 21 and 22 June 2011, lot 218

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Private collection

For similar models:

Patrick Mauriès, Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams, Londres, 1991, p. 184

Brigitte Fitoussi, Piero Fornasetti, Conversation entre Philippe Starck et Barnaba Fornasetti, Paris, 2005, p. 55

Barnaba Fornasetti, Mariuccia Casadio and al., Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, New York, 2010, p. 380

Piero Fornasetti, Cento anni di follia pratica. One Hundred Years Of Practical Madness, exhibition catalog, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, 13 November 2013 - 9 February 2014, p. 147

We would like to thank the Fornasetti Archive for her assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.

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