ID 880134
Lot 423 | PIERO FORNASETTI (1913-1988) AND GIO PONTI (1891-1979)
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
'Architettura' Secretaire Trumeau, designed circa 1950, executed circa 1987
lithographic and transfer-printed wood, ebonized wood, brass, glass
95 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 16 in. (217.8 x 38.7 x 40.6 cm)
with paper label Fornasetti Milano inside top drawer
Provenance
Norton-Blumenthal, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988
Literature
“Piero Fornasetti: Playful Graphic Art from Italy.” Grabrauchsgraphik 6, Munich, 1962, n. p.
A. Branzi, M. De Lucchi, Il Design Italiano Degli Anni ’50, Milan, 1981, p. 111 (for a related example)
P. Mauries, Fornasetti Designer of Dreams, London, 1991, pp. 20, 53, 100-101
U. La Pietra, Gio Ponti, Milan, 1995, p. 168
P. Favardin, Les Annees 50, Paris, 1999, p. 31
A. Bony, Meubles et Décors des Années 40, Paris, 2002, n. p.
C. and P. Fiell, Domus III 1950-1954, Cologne, 2006, p. 161 (for a related example), 550
M. Casadio, Fornasetti, I. L'artista alchimista, II. La bottega Fantastica, 2009, p. 357
B. Fornasetti, Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, New York, 2010, pp. 344-45 (for period photograph of designer with the example), 349 (for the present lot and related example)
I. de Guttry, M. Maino, Il Mobile Italiano Deglianni ’40 E ’50, Rome, 2010, pp. 164-65
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