Gaetano Pesce
Gaetano Pesce ( b. 1939 in La Spezia ) is an Italian architect and designer.
Life
Pesce studied from 1958 to 1963 architecture at the University of Venice. 1969 Pesce was with the inflatable chair " Up" his debut as a designer. Previously, he worked as an architect and artist. In 1972, Cassina " Bracciodiferro ", the first company of Experimental Design. Pesce directs it. 1972 led the first trials with resin for " Golgotha Chair", one to seat stiffened with resin cloth. Incidentally Pesce taught a total of two years at international universities such as the Institut d' Architecture et d' Etudes Urbaines in Strasbourg and the Domus Academy in Milan. In 1980 he moved to New York. Pesce was directed Studios on Broadway and Houston Street in the SoHo district a. His bed system " Tramonto a New York " was produced by Cassina. Experimented in 1987 as one of the first with felt. The result was one of its most successful models, the chair of the session " I Feltri " ( Cassina ). In the following years more designs created with namentlichem reference to the new home, including the very vielbeinige model "Broadway Chair", the Italian company Bernini realized. Pesce in 1994 founded the company Fish Design, based in Milan and New York. Are produced vases, bowls, mirrors, wall clocks, but also belts, chains and rings in experimental resin forms. 2002 attracted Pesce at the Milan furniture fair attention with his series " Nobody's Perfect ". The chairs, sideboards and tables, which produces Zerodisegno that focus on individualization of mass production. There are no two exactly same copies per model. The Triennale in Milan in 2005 was a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Gaetano Pesce from. The exhibition was shown in the second half of the year with great success at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil.
His works can be found at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.