Barnaba Fornasetti Tray Table

Item Details

Barnaba Fornasetti (Italian; born 1950)
Tray Table, 1995
Silk scarf encased in methacrylate with an enameled steel base
Manufactured by Compagnia del Tabacco

A tray table designed by Barnaba Fornasetti, dated 1995. The tray features a decorative scarf detailed with constellations encased in methacrylate to create the tray for the metal table base.

Born in Milan in 1950, Barnaba Fornasetti is the only child of Italian surrealist designer Piero Fornasetti. Fornasetti studied at the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera Milano, the very same school that his father once attended. In 1974 Fornasetti moved to Tuscany, where he began to renovate farmhouses before returning to Milan to work alongside his father. After his father’s death in 1988, Barnaba Fornasetti took over the family business creating whimsical and sophisticated tiles, homeware, fashion, and more.

Provenance
Property from the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, sold to benefit the Art Acquisition Fund.

Condition

- slight wear to exterior edge of tabletop; minor surface wear to metal legs of table; dust present to surface of table and legs.

Dimensions

Item #

18IND030-089