THEMES AND INSPIRATIONS

FLYING MACHINES

Fornasetti's visions travel along unexpected routes, aboard aircraft that float lightly in the skies of the imagination. Ever since Piero chose hot-air balloons and flying machines to decorate his childhood bedroom they have coloured his creative universe. His intuition took shape later in the extraordinary fabrics designed together with Gio Ponti for a Milanese house. Nowadays Fornasetti’s balloons hover on pieces of art whose rigorous shapes marry a whimsical spirit.

The secret that transforms Fornasetti's visions into design objects lies in the tradition of superior craftsmanship.

Every single detail is carefully reproduced by following the original papers, drawings and projects taken from the archives.

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