D. Schirinzi - Piero e Barnaba Fornasetti - 2025
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Piero e Barnaba Fornasetti, with texts by Daniela Schirinzi, is a 1st edition Italian hardcover-style book on Arte applicata (design), published in 2025, 95 pages, sized 28.5 x 26 cm, in original binding Brossura and in Come nuovo condition.
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Piero e Barnaba Fornasetti
Texts by Daniela Schirinzi
Piero Fornasetti was not a mere artist or craftsman. He was a collector of worlds, a man who gathered, archived, reinvented. A predator of images, as Barnaba Fornasetti once said, or a refined thief of the past, as we would put it. He turned this obsession into language, and language into objects. Decoration, for him, was not a superfluous addition but a way of thinking, a natural and indispensable fact, in contrast with modernist dogmas: a means to restore depth to the object through storytelling and the quality of drawing. Fornasetti is an anomaly. He is not just design, not just a brand, not just art and not just craftsmanship. He is an idea that withstands time.
Guernieri M., Schirinzi D.; Piero e Barnaba Fornasetti. Paperback with dust jacket, 26 x 28.5 cm, 95 pages, Italian language; Milan, RCS Mediagroup, 2025.
The volume presents itself in near-new condition. Cover without defects. Paperback perfectly solid. Inner pages clean with no creases or stains. Copy as new from a collection.
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Piero e Barnaba Fornasetti
Texts by Daniela Schirinzi
Piero Fornasetti was not a mere artist or craftsman. He was a collector of worlds, a man who gathered, archived, reinvented. A predator of images, as Barnaba Fornasetti once said, or a refined thief of the past, as we would put it. He turned this obsession into language, and language into objects. Decoration, for him, was not a superfluous addition but a way of thinking, a natural and indispensable fact, in contrast with modernist dogmas: a means to restore depth to the object through storytelling and the quality of drawing. Fornasetti is an anomaly. He is not just design, not just a brand, not just art and not just craftsmanship. He is an idea that withstands time.
Guernieri M., Schirinzi D.; Piero e Barnaba Fornasetti. Paperback with dust jacket, 26 x 28.5 cm, 95 pages, Italian language; Milan, RCS Mediagroup, 2025.
The volume presents itself in near-new condition. Cover without defects. Paperback perfectly solid. Inner pages clean with no creases or stains. Copy as new from a collection.
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Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Applied art
Book title
Piero e Barnaba Fornasetti
Author/ Illustrator
D. Schirinzi
Condition
As new
Publication year oldest item
2025
Height
28.5 cm
Edition
1st Edition
Width
26 cm
Language
Italian
Original language
Yes
Binding/ Material
Softback
Number of pages
95
