Gaetano Pesce's UP5 chair and UP6 ottoman, designed in 1969, are still fresh today.
Gaetano Pesce was born in 1939 in La Spezia, Italy, He attended the University of Venice Faculty of Architecture. He lived in Paris for 15 years and now makes his home in New york City. He has been a visiting lecturer and professor at Cooper Union in New York. He is currently a faculty member at the Institut d'Architecture et d'Etude Urbaines in Strasbourg.
In 1996 he was honored with both a career retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the publication of the seminal volume, "Gaetano Pesce: Le temps des questions."
Pesce has designed for such innovative clients as B&B Italia, Cassina, the Vitra International. He has recently launched a home design collection called Open Sky.
See: The Organic Building in Osaka, Japan, the Gallery Mourmans in Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium, and the Schuman residence in New York.
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