Details
lithographic transfer printed aluminum
comprising:
two 'Città di Carte' trays
one 'Braccio' tray
one 'Occhi' tray
2318 in. (58.7 cm.) long
each with paper label for FORNASETTI MILANO MADE IN ITALY
Literature
P. Mauriès, Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams, London, 1991, pp. 143 (for a related example) and 284.
B. Fitoussi, Piero Fornasetti: A Converstaion Between Philippe Starck and Barnaba Fornasetti, New York, 2005, p. 33.
B. Fornasetti, ed., Fornasetti:The Complete Universe, New York, 2010, pp. 536, 684 and 4-5, 451, 610-611 (for illustrations of the Città di carte).
G. Curzio, Piero Fornasetti: Cento anni di follia pratica/ One Hundred Years of Practical Madness, Mantua, 2013, pp. 58-59 (for an illustration of the Città di carte) and 184-185 (for a related example).
P. Mauriès, Piero Fornasetti: La Folie Pratique, Paris, 2015 pp. 12, 167, 255 (for related examples) and 82-83, 248-249 (for illustrations of the Città di carte).
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