Fornasetti

The "Stamperia d'Arte Fornasetti" enjoyed some success in the Milanese cultural scene; as Raffaele Carrieri wrote in Epoca in 1978: "He was the first to print lithographs of De Chirico in Milan, some considerable time ago".

One of the first successes of the company, and its collaboration with Ponti, was the Architettura trumeau, which was then exhibited at the IX Milan Triennale in 1951, and is now included in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

In this period, Fornasetti's fame once again garnered the attention of the public: in 1984 the Themes and Variations gallery opened in London on the initiative of Liliane Fawcett, in tribute to the work of the company and its creator.

This led to a collaboration between Barnaba Fornasetti and Patrick Mauriès on a first full-length monograph, entitled Designer of Dreams, published in 1991 by Thames & Hudson.

[4] With the advent of the new millennium, the new head of the company consolidated its presence in the modern panorama,[5] expanding the variety of its output and its interaction with various contemporary artistic personalities.

100 years of practical madness, presented at the Milan Triennale, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul.

[9] The following year, the Atelier Fornasetti produced an opera, The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni, involving among others the collaboration of the designer Romeo Gigli.