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Property from the Collection of Laura and Lewis Kruger

Piero Fornasetti

"Città di Carte" and "Libri" Four-Panel Screen

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5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Description

Property from the Collection of Laura and Lewis Kruger

Piero Fornasetti

"Città di Carte" and "Libri" Four-Panel Screen


circa 1960s

on casters

lithographic transfer-print over wood, gilt metal

80 ¾ x 78 ¼ x 1 ¼ in. (205.1 x 198.7 x 3.1 cm)

Patrick Mauriès, Fornasetti, Designer of Dreams, London, 1991, pp. 212-213 (for "Città di Carte") and 183 (for "Libri")

Fornasetti, La Follia Pratica, exh. cat., Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, 2004, n.p.

Barnaba Fornasetti, ed., Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Milan, 2009, pp. 4-5 (for "Città di Carte"), 424, 430 (for "Libri" related examples) and 442 (for a "Città di Carte" related example)