Plates as decoration

Dolce Vita This is Tate, Paloma´s cute dog

For I while i am intrigued by people who hang plates on their wall

for decoration. I find it very pretty, and I have to figure out wich plates

I want to hang on to my wall. I already got a pretty fornasetti plate from my beau boyfriend

for Christmas, but I need some others to make it fun.

These are not plates, but give the same feel

The plates MAKE the room.

apartment therapy

brabourne farm

It´s great you can hang plates in every room, whether it is a bedroom,

or diningroom, it looks good everywhere.

Fornasetti for Christmas

A few weeks ago my beau boyfriend never heared of Fornasetti before, I told him that I really liked the things that they make.
For his work he went to Milan and had time to visit the Fornasetti shop and he was able, with permission, to take some pictures.

They are so daring, love the red wall.

See the face plates on the left.

They make so much different kind of objects and furniture.

Now my boyfriend is my hero, he got me a plate for Christmas, it´s beautifully wrapped

and will be under our future christmastree.

(still doubting what kind of tree to get)

visit Fornasetti theirwebsite

Fornasetti plates

I have seen them in boutiques and on the internet, always intrigued to see the silly faces, never knowing wich name they had untill I red about them on a other blog. Now I like them so much that I would like to own one, just one and I promise I will not start to collecting them....

More information about fornasetti:

Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988) is often described as a visionary. A Milan artist, Fornasetti was at the same time a painter, sculptor, designer, craftsman, and an engraver of art books. In his lifetime, he created more than 11,000 objects, decorative schemes, and items of furniture in the course of his unfailingly prolific career, including a large number of unique pieces.
Drawings on a powerful mix of Italian cultural tradition and surrealist invention, his ideas were expressed on every conceivable support, from glasses and plates to umbrellas, lamps, furniture, and screens. The result is a very unusual and highly poetic body of work.
Today his son, Barnaba Fornasetti, is keeping the family tradition alive by reviving Piero’s most popular pieces and creating new ones.
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