First American edition of Patrick Mauries’s comprehensive monograph celebrating the whimsical, surrealist-inspired oeuvre of prolific Italian designer Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988). Published in 1991 by Bulfinch Press to coincide with a major exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. 4to (9” x 12”), hardcover with pictorial dust jacket,288 pages, over 600 illustrations with 116 in color. With an essay by Ettore Sottsass. As new, unopened, still in original shrink wrap.
First American edition of Patrick Mauries’s comprehensive monograph celebrating the whimsical, surrealist-inspired oeuvre of prolific Italian designer Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988). Published in 1991 by Bulfinch Press to coincide with a major exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. 4to (9” x 12”), hardcover with pictorial dust jacket,288 pages, over 600 illustrations with 116 in color. With an essay by Ettore Sottsass. As new, unopened, still in original shrink wrap.
