‘Armistizio’ By Barnaba Fornasetti For Milan Design Week 2011


For Milan Design Week 2011 Milanese atelier Fornasetti presents ‘Armistizio’ (armistice), a collection of office furniture at their showroom Spazio Fornasetti, designed by Barnaba Fornasetti, son of the late Piero Fornasetti,

The series of furniture pieces draw on the renaissance engravings of armour, mêlée weapons and antique illustrations of firearms.
Archival drawings such as the ‘spade e fucili’ and ‘pugnali e pistole’, previously used to embellish a variety of objects, are revisited by Barnaba, updated and applied in a new context for ‘Armistizio.

Fornasetti is exclusive to 4.

Read the original blog post here on Designboom.

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