Bernd Goeckler, Inc.

Piero Fornasetti

Piero Fornasetti (1913 - 1988) was a prolific Milanese artist, poet and designer whose childlike curiosity spurred the creation of thousands of tromp l’oeil objects, furniture designs and interiors covered in everything from neoclassic motifs and Palladian architecture to seashells and playing cards. Fornasetti was a pivotal and playful figure at a time when postwar society was still ambivalent toward the traditional as well as the modern. Fornasetti’s enthusiasm for historical citation and the applied arts was not in defense against industrialization, but rather a compulsion to subvert the staidness of classical iconography. His whimsical reimaginings were more concerned with feeling than meaning. Fornasetti’s greatest talent was to find humanity in the historical vignettes he sourced from a vast array of 17th to 20th century printed material, and compose them into a “precious and precise magic,” as poet and client Pablo Neruda declared.

From the collection :

Two Plates $ 2,700
Piero Fornasetti
Code : N-11484
Two Plates
Piero Fornasetti
Code : N-11484
$2,700
Umbrella Stand $8,500
Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988)
Code : N-11439
Umbrella Stand
Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988)
Code : N-11439
$8,500
Table Lamp $ 6,500
Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988)
Code : N-11365
Table Lamp
Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988)
Code : N-11365
$6,500
Folding Screen $ 75,000
Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988)
Code : N-7825
Folding Screen
Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988)
Code : N-7825
$75,000
Waste Basket $ 5,500
Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988)
Code : N-9887
Waste Basket
Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988)
Code : N-9887
$5,500
Center Table $ 9,500
Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988)
Code : N-9635
Center Table
Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988)
Code : N-9635
$9,500
Paperweight $ 950
Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988)
Code : N-8871 J
Paperweight
Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988)
Code : N-8871 J
$950
Mirror $ 2,500
Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988)
Code : N-7830
Mirror
Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988)
Code : N-7830
$2,500