area 119 – gaetano pesce

To exercise the profession and art that Gaetano Pesce makes his livelihood from, and to live it to the fullest, takes a visionary and thus revolutionary ability that is a…

If asked to suggest a figure capable of summarizing, synthetically and paradigmatically, the work of Gaetano Pesce, I would not hesitate: I would say the oxymoron. The coexistence of opposites….

Senza Fine Unica,  Meritalia, 2010 At an exhibition of work by Carlo Scarpa years ago I was especially taken by the margins of his working drawings. These were covered with…

Brent Lewis: What in your opinion is the key mission of design today? Gaetano Pesce: The time is right for an object to express more than beauty, nice form, and…

“When we talk about an interior, if you go somewhere familiar, nothing happens because you know it already, and there is nothing to move your brain to understand something different”,…

Abstraction proceeds by degrees. Every representation both pares and substitutes, proposing a way of seeing as well as a vision of its object. Painting and drawing – whether Lascaux or…

The Golgotha suite is a reference to Bible history – to the passion of Christ and The Last Supper – reminding us of the sacramental value that objects had in…

Sunset in New York Some time ago, we were in New York and I found that this powerful city had grown less stimulating; I was less impressed. I asked myself…

La Smorfia (the grimace) Italy is the one region in Europe whose sole natural resource is the creativity of its inhabitants. Today this wealth is mainly expressed through cooking, fashion…

The three cabinets, “Mantegna,” “Horse“,and “Arquà“ are the fruit of ideas that came to me when I was travelling in Italy in October 2006. At that time I visited the…

“The objects we are surrounded by are becoming more and more our companions in life. We live in an age today that has become very different from when they were…

An idea to celebrate Italy in its 150th anniversary since the unification. Gaetano Pesce and Cassina have decided to realize a project that is not so much a furniture item…

“In 1994 I created an activity in New York to produce vases and objects with polyurethane resin, developing a specific know how and an original approach to the material over…

“For more than two years we are going through a severe economic times, but not as much as you hear. Many fearful, or lovers of “rest“, deliberately exaggerate the seriousness…

Marco Casamonti: You are a designer who has given proof of great versatility over the years, working in every field, as an architect planning both buildings and interiors, as a…

The discovery of a small subterranean city, belonging to the epoch known “The period of the Great Contaminations”; location: Southern Europe (Alps). The basic living unit of the urban settlement…

“Polymorphously perverse” is not normally a term that pops to mind when discussing architectural innovation, but when it comes to the exuberant, messy work of Gaetano Pesce, space has many…

The first idea of “L‘italia in Croce“ dates back to 1976, year of the above drawing. The project at that moment wasn‘t realized for the tricky policy situation of those…

It has often been said that “when the spirit, the content of a work of art is lacking, the form prevails”. I have been convinced for years that this sentence…

The goal of this project was to create a new typology, a vertical garden. The nine-story building’s red steel panel exterior incorporates a system of small bays with controlled irrigation and drainage that…

Through an expressive use of varied materials, Bahia House is an experiment of architecture that connects with the cultural identity of the place where it is built. Bahia (Brazil) has…

Is it not surprising that present-day architectural expression has not yet taken advantage of all that happened in the culture in the Fifties and Sixties of last century? Pop art,…

Architecture, as any other human activity, needs to progress. I hope this Pink Pavilion will make us think about the urgent necessity of innovation in its many necessary guises -…

1. The bridge with the “S“ shape to slow speed and to remember the initial of Sicily. 2. The bridge supported by 20 pillars as there are Italian Regions. 3….