Title & Author:

New Bottles for New Wine / [presented by] Gaetano Pesce.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1997.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (41 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Sao Paolo Tower Project, 1987-1988 -- Rag Lamp No.6, Fish Design, 1996 -- Umbrella Chair, 1992 -- 543 Broadway Chair, 1994 -- You Turn Tables, Fish Design, 1995 -- Chiat Day Offices, New York, 1994. Main 'Piazza' Informal Meeting Area -- Chiat Day Offices, New York, 1994. Quilted Fabric Screens Mobile Computer -- Chiat Day Offices, New York, 1994. Central Computer Enclosure -- Chiat Day Offices, New York, 1994. Walls Of Remote-Control Cast Brick -- Chiat Day Offices, New York, 1994. Entrance Hall -- Le Temps Des Questions Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1996. Resin Floor -- Le Temps Des Questions Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1996. View From Mezzanine. Central Structure In Form Of Question Mark -- Le Temps Des Questions Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1996. Lower Level Of Exhibition -- Le Temps Des Questions Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1996. Upper Level With Bubbles Display Cases -- Le Temps Des Questions Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1996. Resin Invitation To Private View -- Fish Design. Amazonia Polychrome, 1994 -- 1995 -- Fish Design. Tent Lamp,1996 -- Fish Design. Triangle Lamp,1996 -- Fish Design. Sant Ivo Vase, 1995 -- Saint Paul's Cathedral, London -- Eiffel Tower, Paris -- Sketch Of Interior Of Guggenheim Museum, New York -- Door In Chiat Day Offices, New York, 1994.

Summary:

Gaetano Pesce is one of the most outstanding and unique designers in the world today. He studied architecture in Venice, Italy, and at the age of 30 in 1969 he was already famous for the UP seating he did for C & B. Since then he has been pouring out ever more inventive designs - furniture, lamps, interiors, exhibitions and architecture. Since the 1970s he has lived and worked in New York but has studios also in France and Italy. Always curious about new technology and new materials, he spends most of his time in his workshop exploring the qualities of materials such as rubber, resin, polyester and felt - materials that suggest ambiguity rather than hard edge. In 1992 he designed an organic building for Osaka, a tower with a vertical garden. Two years later he was commissioned by Chiat Day to fit out their offices in an ordinary office tower in Manhattan. It was to be a "virtual" office for the agency, without hierarchy, job titles or fixed work stations. He produced a symphony of colour (colour is the expression of life, he says). In 1975 he had a retrospective exhibition in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris; and Paris hosted him again in 1996, at the Centre Pompidou in a show which he called "Le Temps Des Questions". Here both the invitation and the catalogue cover were in the form of a question mark of coloured resin, no two the same. In his talk he begs architects to do more research into new technologies and materials, else they will lose out to engineers and become obsolete.

Subject:

Furniture design.
Architecture Aesthetics.
Meubles Design.
Architecture Esthétique.

Added entries:

Pesce, Gaetano, narrator.