We found this lovely little video on Youtube about Piero Fornasetti's house. It also includes an interview with his son Barnaba.
For those who do not speak Italian, please enjoy our simple translation.
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On a mysterious evening in Milan, in the rain, two lights shine on me - one represents the sun, the other the moon... Piero's Fornasetti's house.
(Here) an infinite collection of objects..... even the chandelier is made of thousands of little shells, all attached to the bottom and held together by the fossils of the sea urchin (hedgehogs).... this (the) study where Barnaba continues the traditional activity of his father Piero.....here you find two phenomenal objects that throw you back to the Italian Archibaldian period.
Vegetable with onion face...
Face made of vegetables with green peas....
The number 1818 does not correspond to the year of production obviously, but corresponds to the serial numbers of the projects themselves.
I found here an Archibaldian man, serial number 1652, with an Archibaldian woman, which even deceived me because the serial number is 1588 which is actually the year of the Archibaldian period.
I discovered the world of Peiro Fornasetti when all friends of mine disappeared 20 years ago.... the paper bin, the cat in front of the fire place.... I am rediscovering a formidable object, the little writing table of Gio Ponti, because the Fornasetti stories begin in an professional/work agreement with Gio Ponti. Fornasetti prior to that was a printer. From there he started on print his own prints on silk, then he met Gio Ponti.
Today, I see a reflection of Barnaba Fornasetti, the second generation of (folle) creatively unique designers;
Barnaba: "Today my work consists in faithfully re-editing some of the pieces done by my father in his atelier. With the same technique and the same quality, and also what I call the reinvention (or re-edition), so reutilizing the design archive of my father.... like this part of the famous face, in which I have added the red of the lips. This I have then use to create new furniture and new objects."
House - infinite and singular, the chair in the shape of a guitar, the Ponti table decorated with fishes, on the Fornasettian rug and the cat that eternally sleeps on the sofa.
The cupboard "fake library" (finta libreria), surrounded by a myriad of drawings.
Drawings from the time of my father (with today's modern interpretation) on the tiles, lamps, heaters, and the textiles, this is a bathroom with an obsession with women's faces staring back at us.
The yellow bamboo furniture (which again is a print on a steel tube), the paravento/screens with the venus and behind, the notorious red room - With all the books bounded in red and all of them containing the word red.
The dining room with one of his most beautiful creations.
This is your proof that Milan is not as flat as it would initially appear.
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Original video found here.
More Love, from Milk x
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