Gaetano Pesce

Radical Design

Gaetano Pesce is an Italian sculptor, designer and architect. He was born in 1939 in La Spezia. He studied architecture at the Iuav in Venice, where during the same period he taught personalities such as Carlo Scarpa and Ernesto Nathan Rogers. He then attended the Institute of Industrial Design in Venice. In 1959 he joined the group N, born in Padua: Together with him there are 9 other artists including Alberto Biasi, Ennio Chiggio and Milena Vettore, known a few years earlier at the Venetian Institute of Design. The group will melt in 1964. In 1972 he participated in the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in new York: "Italy: The new Domestic Landscape". From 1983 he lives and works in New York; In this city gave birth to the company Fish Design. In 1996 he was given a retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou, but his works are also exhibited at other major museums in the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Pesce is one of the leading exponents of Italian design, in particular of radical design.

The products of this designer

Feltri

Brand: Cassina

A familiar figure on many modern antiques’ and collectors’ sites, Feltri is a summation of thinking about figuration in the hybrid zone where the artistic meets the functional. One of a kind, this piece stands out for its enormous flexibility and for the fact that the mattress-like seat can be upholstered in wide array of fabrics. These can be mixed and matched with the six new colour options of the frame, to provide a total of ten colourways. Feltri was created within Cassina’s Research Centre, a place synonymous with experimentation and constructional avant-garde thinking. Here, Gaetano Pesce dedicated time and thought to the design, in the process thinking up a complex new manufacturing process that was later patented by the company. Created entirely from dense wool felt, the pliable, wrap-around back is all one piece. The lower section, meanwhile, is rigid and sturdy, thanks to being impregnated with a thermosetting resin. The seat is attached to the frame using hemp ties; these also extend around the chair’s upper part. A comfortable quilt, coupled with polyester wadding, serves to upholster the inner section of the chair.

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Gaetano Pesce

Radical Design

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Feltri

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