Piero Fornasetti: Five Steps to Practical Madness

"I have gathered thousands of documents on the so-called decorative arts; it is essential to find, to collect things together so that at the right moment I can find an aesthetic reference to use for my creations, and it gives me a sense of tranquillity, another satisfaction of the collector." So said Piero Fornasetti, master of the decorative imagination, whose playful and humorous designs famously transformed furniture into objets d'art, defined by a signature humour. As…