Going against the current
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 combination between the craftsman’s...
The noise of time
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. All the design activities...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...