The Pesce mode
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 doodles, frequently of female bodies, and by periodic blots that turned out to …
The design of politics, culture and chance
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 function. Objects have the potential to express points of view. They can have the character …
The perfection of imperfection – an apartment in Paris
“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”, says Italian-born architect and designer Gaetano Pesce. “But new thi …
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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 Leonardo – confronts the primary abstraction of worldly depiction: …
Golgotha chair
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 traditional society, where every table was ultimately an altar and every meal an actualization …
Tramonto/Notturno a New York
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 whether New York was not entering a phase of decadence like those experienced by other cities (…) …
La smorfia
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 and the “design” of the objects associated with these two sector …
Horse, Mantegna, Palladio cabinet
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 Mantegna exhibitions in Verona, Mantua, and Padua and while staying in the area I went …
Senzafine unica
“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 part of the world of applied arts, and in the beginning of the 20th century we have become c …
Sessantuna
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 as a way to conceive and produce design. Sessantuna. A unique and unitary work. …