Fornasetti presents A good hand at Nomad 2023

Fornasetti will be present at Nomad St Moritz 2023 with the new project "A good hand", comprising a collection of furniture and accessories decorated on a theme dear to the Atelier, namely the world of playing cards. The combination of decoration and #design that characterises the new creations expresses the metaphor of the "good hand", a reference both to the world of illusion and prestige games that playing cards evoke, and to the extraordinary skills of the craftsman who combines different materials to create true works of art.

A collection of one-off pieces born of Barnaba Fornasetti's idea of recovering the original zinc lithographic plates from the Fifties, once used by Piero #fornasetti to print decorations on objects, and applying them to a screen, a furniture bar, tables, mirrors and boxes, including one for the game of tournament backgammon. Playing cards, the central theme of the collection, embellish the surface of every piece, populating each one with their familiar suits and figures.

The exhibition #design was conceived as a sequence of micro-habitats that differ from one another in terms of colour and lighting. Scattered among these spaces are the various works in the collection, furniture and accessories characterised by the combination of walnut root and the original zinc alloy plates used in the Fifties by Piero #fornasetti in his lithographic printing process. Despite having lost their printing potency due to oxidation, the plates retain their timeless charm and take on a new life here thanks to the expert craftsmanship that highlights their materiality by associating them with the gleam of brass. Thanks to Fornasetti's creative expertise, these antique objects from the archive transform the new creations into unique works of art.

"A good hand" alludes not only to the skill of the craftsman, clearly visible in this context, but also to the beguiling world of playing cards, the decorative stars of these precious pieces. Objects that have inspired #fornasetti since the Atelier’s origins and that Piero himself collected in all shapes and sizes, fascinated by their dual nature: despite having a specific function, playing cards lend themselves to multiple variations in terms of dimension, form and decoration. Not surprisingly, these objects inspired the #fornasetti imagination, giving life to the decoration "City of Cards", a surreal landscape that covers several of the Atelier's creations, including the series of plates and the screen on display at Nomad. The dialogue between the suits, figures and cities imagined by #fornasetti creates an evocative, poetic panorama.

The exhibition is completed by a section dedicated to the trumeau, one of Fornasetti's most emblematic pieces of furniture, presented at Nomad in seven different decorative variations. From the limited edition reissue of the original piece - fruit of the collaboration with Gio Ponti and made of walnut root with hand-applied prints - to the model designed with British painter Anj Smith, each trumeau pays homage to the skill of combining creativity and savoir faire that is at the heart of all that #fornasetti does.

Fornasetti will be present at Nomad St Moritz 2023 with the new project "A good hand", comprising a collection of furniture and accessories decorated on a theme dear to the Atelier, namely the world of playing cards. The combination of decoration and #design that characterises the new creations expresses the metaphor of the "good hand", a reference both to the world of illusion and prestige games that playing cards evoke, and to the extraordinary skills of the craftsman who combines different materials to create true works of art.

A collection of one-off pieces born of Barnaba Fornasetti's idea of recovering the original zinc lithographic plates from the Fifties, once used by Piero #fornasetti to print decorations on objects, and applying them to a screen, a furniture bar, tables, mirrors and boxes, including one for the game of tournament backgammon. Playing cards, the central theme of the collection, embellish the surface of every piece, populating each one with their familiar suits and figures.

The exhibition #design was conceived as a sequence of micro-habitats that differ from one another in terms of colour and lighting. Scattered among these spaces are the various works in the collection, furniture and accessories characterised by the combination of walnut root and the original zinc alloy plates used in the Fifties by Piero #fornasetti in his lithographic printing process. Despite having lost their printing potency due to oxidation, the plates retain their timeless charm and take on a new life here thanks to the expert craftsmanship that highlights their materiality by associating them with the gleam of brass. Thanks to Fornasetti's creative expertise, these antique objects from the archive transform the new creations into unique works of art.

"A good hand" alludes not only to the skill of the craftsman, clearly visible in this context, but also to the beguiling world of playing cards, the decorative stars of these precious pieces. Objects that have inspired #fornasetti since the Atelier’s origins and that Piero himself collected in all shapes and sizes, fascinated by their dual nature: despite having a specific function, playing cards lend themselves to multiple variations in terms of dimension, form and decoration. Not surprisingly, these objects inspired the #fornasetti imagination, giving life to the decoration "City of Cards", a surreal landscape that covers several of the Atelier's creations, including the series of plates and the screen on display at Nomad. The dialogue between the suits, figures and cities imagined by #fornasetti creates an evocative, poetic panorama.

The exhibition is completed by a section dedicated to the trumeau, one of Fornasetti's most emblematic pieces of furniture, presented at Nomad in seven different decorative variations. From the limited edition reissue of the original piece - fruit of the collaboration with Gio Ponti and made of walnut root with hand-applied prints - to the model designed with British painter Anj Smith, each trumeau pays homage to the skill of combining creativity and savoir faire that is at the heart of all that #fornasetti does.