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PIERO FORNASETTI (1913-1988)
Lot 162 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION 

PIERO FORNASETTI (1913-1988)

A 'STRUMENTI MUSICALI' BOOMERANG CHAIR, CIRCA 1955

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PIERO FORNASETTI (1913-1988)
A 'STRUMENTI MUSICALI' BOOMERANG CHAIR, CIRCA 1955
lithographically-decorated and lacquered wood
34 in. (86.4 cm.) high
with Fornasetti paper label

Barnaba Fornasetti, Milan;
Christie's, Los Angeles, Important Design, The Life of Piero Fornasetti, 16 May 1998, lot 197.

Specialist note

cf. B. Fornasetti, Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, New York, 2010, p. 406.


The Boomerang chair was produced in a very limited quantity of around seventy and was never re-editioned.