Italian Hand Painted Fornasetti Style Side Cabinet with One Drawer and One Door

Pilasters, paneled doors, a transom. All of it flat, and all of it painted by hand.

Made in Italy around 1960, this hand painted Fornasetti style side cabinet of wood, paint and brass has one drawer and one door. Postwar Italian designers loved a visual joke, and decorating furniture with classical buildings, in the manner of Piero Fornasetti, turned a small case into a bit of theater. A gray-toned facade with double doors and shell capitals fills the front, with a plain wall and narrow window down the side. A brass pull spans the top. Four tapered legs end in dark tips. Fifteen and a half inches deep and 25.5 high.

Architecture without the permits.