Designer: Piero Fornasetti (1913 – 1988)

Item: Box with Pipes Motif

Manufactured by: Piero Fornasetti

Country of origin: Italy

Year made: Circa 1960

Materials: Steel, wood, lithographed images, paint and felt

Dimensions: 1 ¼” x 5 ½” x 3 ½”

Condition: Very good.  The gold embossed label on the red felt bottom is mostly intact but has been reapplied to the bottom corner as shown. 

Description: Here is an original vintage Piero Fornasetti made slide box with his famous smoking pipes design and early dovetailed corners on the wooden box.  The colors are bright and vibrant on this box.  This box has its original red felt bottom bearing the correct gold Fornasetti signature and logo, which has been reapplied.  Original vintage slide boxes are getting hard to find.