Those are just a few of the 350 interpretations of the face of the same woman wearing the same expression on ceramic plates created by the 20th-century Italian designer Piero Fornasetti.

a bandit and a deep-sea diver in an array of Surrealist motifs on dinner plates, paperweights, teacups and bathroom tiles. From the 1940s to the 1980s, Mr. Fornasetti spun out a prodigious ...

Its heir, artist Barnaba Fornasetti, admits, however, that few people ask about the face that has adorned many of the family firm’s plates and other objects for the past 70-plus years.

This year's "Il Piatto Forte" exhibition at the Fornasetti store in Milan, on through September 14, displays thousands of plates designs including genuine replicas and concepts on paper featuring ...

It is unclear whether the two ever met, but Lina Cavalieri appears repeatedly on Fornasetti’s pieces, most famously on a set of plates called Tema e Variazioni. She was an Italian opera singer ...

and is featured on almost every product that Fornasetti has produced, ranging from coffee cups and plates to tables and umbrella stands. But, Koreans will realize that there’s so much more to this ...

This is how Barnaba Fornasetti explains his decision to commission Tema e Variazioni: The First Series, 1–100 – a super-luxurious handmade book celebrating his father’s iconic series of ‘Themes and ...

Many New Zealanders will recognise the face of Cavalieri on a range of ceramic wall plates that have become perhaps the best-selling Fornasetti object in this country. In a surreal, fanciful foray ...

Fornasetti - founded in 1940 by Piero Fornasetti - has embodied artistic brilliance, seamlessly fusing a distinct style with boundless creativity. Gracing furniture, plates, candles, and carpets, the ...

The space made him think of the work of the sui generis Italian artist and designer Piero Fornasetti ... to create a series of china plates. The plates that resulted—more than 300 versions ...

Opulence Design Concept is curating an exquisite selection of Fornasetti’s surrealist motifs, including its porcelain plates featuring the face of opera singer Lina Cavalieri.