an 'Architettura' coffee table, Fornasetti, Milano, Italy 2008.
C-shaped base in lacquered wood with black and white architectural decor, signed FORNASETTI MILANO MADE IN ITALY 3/2008, rectangular glass top, 140 x 70 cm, height 51 cm.
A few small colour losses, the glass top with chips to the corners.
Piero Fornasetti was an artist, sculptor, interior designer, and engraver from Milan. DUring his career, Fornasetti created a visual language which is immediately recognisable. The artist studied at Brera Art Academy but got expelled for missbehaviours. Fornasetti created more than 11 000 artworks, many with the soap opera star Lina Cavalieris face on. Several reoccurring themes included his interpratations of symbols, such as the sun and time, in black and white. His style is reminicent of Greek and Roman architecture, a time in which he was greatly influenced by.
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