43 1/4 x 27 1/2 x 19 1/4 in.

Note: Fornasetti designed only one type of corner furniture of which this lot is an example. It is decorated with shells, one of this favorite motifs, which he used along with other natural forms to decorate the wide range of his designs from furniture to fabrics and ceramics.  It is likely that this piece was the result of a collaboration with Gio Ponti, the renowned Italian architect and designer, which began in the 1940's and which combined Ponti's skill as a designer of furniture with simple lines with Fornasetti's flair for exuberant decoration. As Ponti commented in 1962, "In our age of pronounced distrust of decoration Fornasetti happily reveals its importance".

Illustrated in Patrick Mauriès, Fornasetti, Designer of Dreams, 1991, p 267, and dating the piece to 1950.

Age splits with minor lifting and nicks throughout. Loss to some mirrored panels on the interior. Structurally sound.Not withstanding this report or any discussion concerning condition of a lot, all lots are offered and sold "as is" in accordance with our conditions of sale.