Fornasetti Tema e Variazioni. The first series 1-100, 2016
Limited edition. Fuori Salone Milano Design Week, Italy
Tema e Variazioni, Lina Cavalieri
First presented during the Fuori Salone at Milan Design Week 2016, it arose from Barnaba Fornasetti's initiative to pay tribute to the history of the design atelier, going back to the beginnings of its founder Piero as a printer and to his most famous series of decorations, Tema e Variazioni, featuring the face of Lina Cavalieri, the celebrated early 20th-century opera singer.
The book
Each book, composed of 100 images printed on the press, with handcrafted binding and texts in Monotype letterpress, is kept in a custom-made leather slipcase.
The classic etching process used to make the plates was deliberately rewritten with the support of numerically controlled machinery in some stages of the work; this helped to render all the graphic detail and the depth of the black line typical of Fornasetti. The use of the intaglio press made it possible to reproduce what had already been described in Diderot's Encyclopédie, in a manner unchanged since then. The key to a new reinterpretation of the Tema e Variazioni archive lies in the design choices and technical solutions.
The original brass plates, etched, become elements set into the cover and give each book a different face
Technique: 100 brass plates prepared with digital UV exposure and etched
Format: 33x22.5 cm
Paper: Hahnemühle white 300g
Edition: 100 copies numbered 1 to 100 in Arabic numerals
Typography: Tipografia Rodolfo Campi on Arjowiggins Curious Skin 135 gsm black paper
Monotype typesetting in Garamond, 10 pt, 14 pt and 36 pt
Binding: Cristina Balbiano d'Aramengo: hand binding with long-stitch sewing, structural headband and white and red linen thread
Legatoria De Stefanis: full-cloth board portfolio cover with the original plate inset in the front board.
L.O.C.E. srl: leather and velvet slipcase
Publisher: Fornasetti
Edited by: Barnaba Fornasetti and Valeria Manzi
Graphic design: Pomo
Printer: A14/Daniela Lorenzi for making the plates and press printing, with Georgia Garofalo, Eleonora Tedesco, Valerio Fausti and Pietro Bologna
Special features: the brass plates on the covers were used to print this volume. The sequential number of each copy matches the number of the plate inset
The exhibitions
2016 Fornasetti, presentation event during Milan Design Week – Milan, Italy
2016 Fellini e Fornasetti, temi e variazioni, Biennale del Disegno di Rimini – Rimini, Italy
2016-17 Fornasetti Practical Madness, Dongdaemun Design Plaza – Seoul, Korea
2017-18 Citazioni Pratiche. Fornasetti a Palazzo Altemps, Museo Nazionale Romano Palazzo Altemps – Rome, Italy
2016 Fellini e Fornasetti, temi e variazioni, Biennale del Disegno di Rimini – Rimini, Italy
2016-17 Fornasetti Practical Madness, Dongdaemun Design Plaza – Seoul, Korea
2017-18 Citazioni Pratiche. Fornasetti a Palazzo Altemps, Museo Nazionale Romano Palazzo Altemps – Rome, Italy
Tema e Variazioni © Fornasetti
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