contessanally: October 2016

“Imagination, fantasy and creativity are irrepressible food for the soul and for the spirit: it is a duty for those who have them to give them to others, and in this way fantasy invokes fantasy and poetry invites poetry for everyone, all the time”.

Piero Fornasetti

Milano: New Fornasetti Store - Opening Party. Right in the historical heart of Milan, hometown of Piero and Barnaba Fornasetti, the new Fornasetti mono brand store opens on Corso Venezia in the Neoclassical-style building that hosted the young Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, poet and writer, founder of the Futurism movement, where he started “Poesia” magazine in 1905.

Above. Barnaba Fornasetti is photographed in one of the many rooms of the three-story store in front of the pannelli “Notte Fornasettiana”. Each room is painted with a different colour highlighting its contents like a treasure chest.

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Tema e Variazioni

Self Portrait

Piero Fornasetti

Paola Manfrin

Light Sculpture - Jacopo Foggini

Jacopo Foggini

Fornasetti Store

Table Posateria oro on Malachite, tray Malachite, sofa Combacio Malachite, cube Malachite and Malachite wallpaper Fornasetti for Cole and Son.

Caroline Corbetta and Pasquale Leccese

Christoph Radl and Luisa delle Piane

Yuki Tintori, Alan Journo and Michela Moro

Tema e Variazioni

Romeo Gigli, Daniela Morrera, Bebetta Campeti and Lara Aragno

Warly Tomei

Fornasetti Store

Sideboard Città che si Rispecchia and Architettura mirror

Midtown - 2013 - sculpture – Fausto Salvi

Fausto Salvi, Marva Griffin and Carmine Catacchoio

Xena Zupanic

Pesce – 2016 - Hugh Findlater

Fornasetti’s

IL Dissoluto Punito

Ossia

Don Giovanni

Milan: Teatro dell’Arte – Triennale di Milano – December 1 and 3 Florence: Teatro Della Pergole – January 10-12-13

http://www.fornasetti.com/news-press/article/151697282162

Soprano Raffaella Milanesi sang arias from Don Giovanni

Fornasetti is engaged in the production of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni, directed by Davide Montagna. The Silete Venti! orchestra will be conducted by Simone Toni and will be playing 30 period instruments. Sets are a modern re-interpretation by Barnaba Fornasetti, from the Fornasetti archives, the costumes by Romeo Gigli, lights by Gigi Saccomandi with artistic direction of Valeria Manzi and Roberto Coppolecchia.