- Gaetano Pesce
Gaetano Pesce (born 1939) is an Italian
architect anddesigner .Biography
Gaetano Pesce was born in
La Spezia in 1939. He studied Architecture at theUniversity 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" inOsaka . He lives inNew York since 1980, and has been a guest professor in institutions like theCooper Union in New York and the Institut d'Architecture et d'Etudes Urbaines inStrasbourg . Some of his designs have been included in the collections of the MoMA and theVictoria 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 thePhiladelphia 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
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