FORNASETTI MILANO VINTAGE PORCELAIN ASHTRAYS SET OF 2 OPERA OTHELLO TOSCANINI

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FORNASETTI MILANO VINTAGE PORCELAIN ASHTRAYS SET OF 2 OPERA OTHELLO TOSCANINI:
$249.00

SET OF TWO VINTAGE PIERO FORNASETTI CERAMIC ASHTRAYSGold Edged8.5 inches tall5.25 inches wideTeatro Alla ScallaOtelloReverse reads:\"Othello This is the poster of the first performance of the opera \"Othello\" by Giuseppe Verdi held at the theatre Scala. Historians of opera tell us that it met with immediate success, which has continued since.\"
Teatro Alla ScallaArturo TocaniniReverse reads:\"Toscanini\'s Concert This is the poster of the inaugural concert after the war of the rebuilt La Scala. The conductor for this memorable evening was the great Aturo Toscanini\"
Piero Fornasetti (Italy, 1913–88)

The Italian artist and illustrator Piero Fornasetti was one of the wittiest and most imaginative design talents of the20th century. He crafted an inimitable decorative style from a personal vocabulary of images that included birds, butterflies, hot-air balloons, architecture and — most frequently, and in some 500 variations — an enigmatic woman’s face based on that of the 19th-century opera singer Lina Cavalieri. Fornasetti used transfer prints of these images, rendered in the style of engravings, to decorate an endless variety of furnishings and housewares that ranged from chairs, tables and desks to dishes,lampsand umbrella stands. His work is archly clever, often surreal and always fun.

Fornasetti was born in Milan, the son of an accountant, and he lived his entire life in the city. He showed artistic talent as a child and enrolled at Milan’s Brera Academy of Fine Art in 1930, but was expelled after two years for consistently failing to follow his professors’ orders.

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