Piero Fornasetti

Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988) was a Milanese painter, printer and designer. From the 1950s he applied lithographic and transfer-printed decoration to furniture, ceramics and objects, often in collaboration with Gio Ponti. His vocabulary of architectural perspectives, suns and the face of Lina Cavalieri in the Tema e Variazioni series gives his work a surreal wit. Collectors seek vintage pieces from his own workshop, identified by their labels and marks.