Gaetano Pesce Broadway Dining Set
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Designer
Gaetano Pesce
Date
1993
Dimensions
Table: 79” x 39” x 30” Chairs: 31” x 24” x 20”
Materials
Rectangular table structure in stainless steel, top in colored epoxy resin, spring feet
About
“543 Broadway” is a unique and unrepeatable chair, as the colors interact with resin and mix each time in an unexpected way, giving birth always to new compositions. At the base of Pesce’s works you also see a net refusal of what is rigid and static and, consequently, his love for elastic, flexible, moving things. The chair, on the other hand, because of its odd “spring” feet, sways, bends, waves... accompanying the movements of the person sitting on it. These works, standing between the functional and the decorative object, show that industrial design represents a valid alternative for artistic expression.
Gaetano Pesce, bold and innovative, always succeeds in surprising us with his furnishing and decorative objects of out any scheme. “Creativity lies in the refusal of already seen models,” he says, and his works, even though being called sofas, lamps, chairs, tables, never correspond to usual images. Pesce is an indefatigable researcher of new and extraordinary effects; he prefers contemporary technologies and materials, which he loves to explore and exploit the intrinsical properties of. His research field is industry “where there is hidden an immense wealth that the designer must find and use.” Here, defying the principles of mass-production, he succeeds in breaking with repetitiveness and monotony imposed by immutable industrial processes, and obtaining various and diversified results. How? Inserting in the industrial process the “unpredictability” factor.
Gaetano Pesce was born in 1939 in La Spezia. In 1959, he commenced his studies of architecture at the faculty of Architecture of the University of Venice, from which he graduated in 1965. Meanwhile, from 1961 to 1965, he attended an experimental school, the new Venice College of Industrial Design. Pesce lives and works in New York, although he maintains strong relationships in Paris, where he lived for many years. Pesce has taught in many schools; he was for a long time a professor at the Institut d’Architecture et d’Etudes urbaines in Strasbourg and for a number of years he taught at the Cooper Union in New York. In addition, he has served as visiting professor at architecture and design schools in Europe, the United States, and the Far East. Pesce’s creativity is of an extremely versatile nature. In the seventies, he participated in the most important international architectural competitions. Today, he has many projects in the US, Brazil, Japan, and Europe. Pesce has been developing a relationship with industry for a long time. He has worked with both large and small enterprises, notably Cassina and B&B Italia, Knoll International in the United States, and Vitra International in Switzerland. Many of Pesce’s works are part of the permanent collections of major museums: The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum in New York; the Musee des Arts decoratifs and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; the Museu d’Arte Moderna in Turin; the Keski Suomen Museum in Helsinki; and the Centre Canadian d’Architecture and the Musee des Arts decoratifs in Montreal. In 1989, a book of his work was published by Rizzoli in New York.
(Words courtesy of - “Bernini 543 Broadway” object catalog, 1993/2001)
Gaetano Pesce, bold and innovative, always succeeds in surprising us with his furnishing and decorative objects of out any scheme. “Creativity lies in the refusal of already seen models,” he says, and his works, even though being called sofas, lamps, chairs, tables, never correspond to usual images. Pesce is an indefatigable researcher of new and extraordinary effects; he prefers contemporary technologies and materials, which he loves to explore and exploit the intrinsical properties of. His research field is industry “where there is hidden an immense wealth that the designer must find and use.” Here, defying the principles of mass-production, he succeeds in breaking with repetitiveness and monotony imposed by immutable industrial processes, and obtaining various and diversified results. How? Inserting in the industrial process the “unpredictability” factor.
Gaetano Pesce was born in 1939 in La Spezia. In 1959, he commenced his studies of architecture at the faculty of Architecture of the University of Venice, from which he graduated in 1965. Meanwhile, from 1961 to 1965, he attended an experimental school, the new Venice College of Industrial Design. Pesce lives and works in New York, although he maintains strong relationships in Paris, where he lived for many years. Pesce has taught in many schools; he was for a long time a professor at the Institut d’Architecture et d’Etudes urbaines in Strasbourg and for a number of years he taught at the Cooper Union in New York. In addition, he has served as visiting professor at architecture and design schools in Europe, the United States, and the Far East. Pesce’s creativity is of an extremely versatile nature. In the seventies, he participated in the most important international architectural competitions. Today, he has many projects in the US, Brazil, Japan, and Europe. Pesce has been developing a relationship with industry for a long time. He has worked with both large and small enterprises, notably Cassina and B&B Italia, Knoll International in the United States, and Vitra International in Switzerland. Many of Pesce’s works are part of the permanent collections of major museums: The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum in New York; the Musee des Arts decoratifs and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; the Museu d’Arte Moderna in Turin; the Keski Suomen Museum in Helsinki; and the Centre Canadian d’Architecture and the Musee des Arts decoratifs in Montreal. In 1989, a book of his work was published by Rizzoli in New York.
(Words courtesy of - “Bernini 543 Broadway” object catalog, 1993/2001)
