Basket by Gaetano Pesce - Fish Design
Designer: Gaetano Pesce
Brand: Fish Design
Color: brown
Material: soft resin
Dimensions: Large 14 x 33 x 33cm
Availability: In stock
Learn more about this designer
Gaetano Pesce is a major figure in Italian and world design of the 1950s. His work is as polymorphous as it is rich.
He is indeed called an architect, designer, painter, sculptor, stylist, scenographer, professor and contemporary philosopher.
Gaetano Pesce travels through history through strong, innovative, colorful pieces. His creations are intended to be both functional and garish, filled with humor or sometimes even shocking.
His works as an architect demonstrate his taste for innovation through the use of atypical materials and colors. He frequently uses resin, recycled paper or plastic. The Pink Pavilion, an entirely pink building constructed from rigid polyurethane, insulating against heat and cold, has excluded the usual construction materials. His best-known architectural work is the Organic building in 1993 in Osaka, Japan: a sort of prefabricated “pocket” containing earth and anchored into the wall, creating a vertical garden. With this concept, Pesce wanted a living building, changing color with the seasons.
Among his works of design, always committed and radical, we note the UP5 Donna armchair: a sculptural foam armchair representing a woman's body chained to a ball, the Golgotha chair alluding to the shroud of Christ, then its chador lamp symbol of the Islamic veil .
The objects he creates must go beyond their status as useful objects, they must create surprise. Through his work, Gaetano Pesce invented the unique example created within a series of similar products, because they were made with the same mold. The Italian master rightly describes this process as a “diversified or
“pluralist”.
We could criticize it for an unfinished or imperfect design, but this is precisely what Pesce is looking for: manufacturing defects become the mark of a search for authenticity, in reaction to standardization.
he knew how to create unique, colorful pieces, as if filled with vitality.
He opposes the standardization of our consumer society to reveal the authenticity of its objects. For him, it is only through originality that an object can convey emotions.
His work is recognized throughout the world and is permanently exhibited at the MoMA in New York, the Center Pompidou, the Louvre, and in other museums in London, Germany and San Francisco.
Learn more about the brand
From the meeting of Gaetano Pesce and Andrea Corsi was born the Corsi Design brand founded in 2003.
Gaetano Pesce, exceptional alchemist, creates the Fish Design resin vase collection for Corsi Design.
Fish Design creates an alchemy between artisanal culture and innovative materials. The brand collaborates with illustrious Italian designers such as Alessandro Mendini, the Campana brothers and Enzo Mari.
All resin pieces in the Fish Design collection are handmade in Italy.
Using resin as if it were clay, the artisans at Fish Design shape this incredible material using the noble techniques of sculptors. Both magical and extraordinary, released from various molds, colored with pigments, shaped with mixtures of resins, castings, extrusions and confident strokes of spatulas, the collection of Fish Design vases is produced by hand with variations of shades and colors, like unique pieces.
