Colonnades, incredible vertiginous perspectives, echo of the Renaissance strictness.
All that united in the trumeau "Architecture".
The symbol of thinking and art of Piero Fornasetti.
Originally designed by Gio Ponti, it was modified by Fornasetti in 1951.
For his little production of around forty unnumbered pieces,
he preferred to give it a more square appearance, removing the curve from its’ top.
Also the two body parts, upper and lower,
had been divided by Fornasetti, in contrast to the prototype settled by Gio Ponti.
The final result combines modern rationalism and the neo-Renaissance rigor.
The furniture is covered with the lithography presenting facades, arches and balustrades
in a perspective, continuing on the inner surface of the trumeau.
The interior presents the colonnade in the courtyard of Brera Academy.
The central niche, made in lacquered sheet metal,
and decorated in accordance to wooden parts, is equipped with neon backlight.
The «T»-formed key was typical for the first models.
The lower part consists of the bureau and three drawers.
When opened, the bureau unveils the internal decor of colonnade illuminated by a neon light.
Its’ feets are truncated cones in brass.
The trumeau presented on the video
used to be a part of the interior in the apartment of Fornasetti in Milan
and had been presented in Triennale Museum on the exhibition «PIERO FORNASETTI - One hundred years of practical madness» in 2015
and, later, in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.
