“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.
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 Leccesse
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 2 Florence:
Teatro delle Pergole – January
10-12-13
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.
Jorg Badura
and Toni Meneguzzo
Annamaria
Sbisa
Armchair - Baciamano Entomologia
Nigel
Coates and
Barnaba Fornasetti
Tema e Variazioni
Blaise
Hamon and Inga Savits
Carpet – Bacio
Gentucca
Bini
Ottavia
Tolentino and Libroio Capizzi
Giulia
Curra
Valeria
Manzi and
Barnaba Fornasetti
Tema e Variazioni
A Fornasetti object is not a simple
object: it tells “a little story,
sometimes funny, wordless of course, but audible to those believe in poetry.”
Piero Fornasetti
Elisa
Giovannoni and Marialaura Rossiello
Arthur
Arbesser
and Julia Nijs
Sylla
Maccari
and Amadou Amar
We Drank
Fornasetti white wine
Tray
Viso – Screen Scaletta
Donatella
Pellini and Nadine
d’Archemont
Fornasetti Store
Milano
Corso Venezia – Via
Senato
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