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. …
Edizioni del Pesce
“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 years of hard work and continuous experimentation. Today the experience and ex …
Il giullare
“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 of this crisis. Certainly it exists, but pessimists magnify it to justify the …
A double interview to Gaetano Pesce and Paulo Antonio Pedó Filho, Melissa‘s Manager
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 designer of furniture and accessories for the home, and now you have, with …
Italy: the new domestic landscape
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 was found to be in a reasonable state of preservation, wi …
Le temps des questions
“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 seats of pleasure. Who else but Pesce could create an environme …
L‘Italia in croce
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 years Italy needs a dynamic, young political class, one that is aware of the change …