Gaetano Pesce

Gaetano Pesce (born 1939) is an Italian architect and designer.

Biography

Gaetano Pesce was born in La Spezia in 1939. He studied Architecture at the University of Venice. He has since worked worldwide as an architect and a designer for companies like Vitra and Cassina. His most famous building is the "Organic Building" in Osaka. He lives in New York since 1980, and has been a guest professor in institutions like the Cooper Union in New York and the Institut d'Architecture et d'Etudes Urbaines in Strasbourg. Some of his designs have been included in the collections of the MoMA and the Victoria and Albert Museum. cite web |url=http://en.red-dot.org/1694.html |title=Gaetano Pesce is AW Ontwerper van het Jaar |accessdate=2007-03-27 |author=reddot online |date=2006-02-07 ]

Awards

* 1993: Chrysler Design Award [ [http://www.chrysler.com/design/design_influences/design_awards/1993/ Chrysler design awards homepage] ]
* 1995: Interior Design magazine Award for his collapsible chair / umbrella [ [http://designmatcher.com/nl/gallery_detail.php?galleryID=1516 Designmatcher.com] ]
* 2005: Design Excellence Award of the Philadelphia Museum of Art [ [http://www.uarts.edu/news/dsp_item.cfm?id=1074&item=pr Press release] ]
* 2006: Designer of the Year for the German magazine "A&W Architektur und Wohnen"

Notes

External links

* [http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/pesce.html Designboom] interview with Pesce from 2000
* [http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/015/pesce.htm Icon magazine] another interview, from September 2004
* [http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A4570&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1 MoMA] Pesce objects in the collection
* [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB071EF838540C738DDDA80994D0484D81 New York Times] article on Pesce's furniture
* [http://www.interiordesign.net/id_article/CA6402399/id Interior Design] 2006 article on Pesce
* [http://www.studiopazo.com www.studiopazo.com ] Great Collection of Vases, furniture and much more by Gaetano Pesce