Dinner plate "Cammei" Piero Fornasetti

Fornasetti produced very refined and limited edition graphic works in his atelier "the design and decorative arts" . His artistic approach was eclectic. His mind was opened to all cultural, scientific, mystical themes, ancient cartographies and scholarly treatises on astrology leaves part to extraordinary, unbridled creativity. He met Gio Ponti in 1940, a very famous architect and designer and they will become very close doing many decorations.
His drawings of fantastic architectures, ruins, games, characters are always a new discovery, and this most famous portrait of Lina Cavalieri, an opera singer of whom he has made more than 350 metamorphoses since its creation in 1952.

An important retrospective of his work took place in 2013, it went from Milano to Paris's "Arts Décoratifs" major museum to be seen once in a life and even to Seoul.
Reference: Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti.