Gaetano Pesce (8 November 1939 – 3 April 2024) was an Italian architect and a design pioneer of the 20th century.{{Cite book|title=A century of design: design pioneers of the 20th century|last=Sparke|first=Penny|date=1998|publisher=Barron's Educational Series |isbn=978-0764151224|language=English|oclc=39637847|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/centuryofdesignd00spar}} Pesce was born in La Spezia in 1939, and he grew up in Padua and Florence.{{cite news|title=The Collection: Gaetano Pesce Italian, born 1939|url=http://www.moma.org/|publisher=MoMA|access-date=27 March 2007|archive-date=23 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110223165036/http://moma.org/|url-status=live}} During his 50-year career, Pesce worked as an architect, urban planner, and industrial designer.{{Cite book|title=Gaetano Pesce: réinventer le monde sensible|last1=Pesce|first1=Gaetano|last2=Garnier|first2=Philippe|date=2017|publisher=Buchet Chastel|isbn=9782283028292|location=Paris|language=French|oclc = 972263489}}{{Cite book|title=Gaetano Pesce: architetturadesignarte|last=Vanlaethem|first=France|date=1989|publisher=Idea Books|isbn=978-8870170733|location=Milano|language=Italian|oclc = 875785359}} His outlook is considered broad and humanistic, and his work is characterized by an inventive use of color and materials, asserting connections between the individual and society, through art, architecture, and design to reappraise mid-twentieth-century modern life.{{Cite book|title=Gaetano Pesce: architecture, design, art|last1=Vanlaethem|first1=France|last2=Pesce|first2=Gaetano|last3=Pesce|first3=Gaetano|last4=Pesce|first4=Gaetano|date=1989|publisher=Rizzoli|isbn=978-0847810864|location=New York|language=English|oclc = 636098890}}{{Cite book|title=Gaetano Pesce|last=Bartolucci|first=Marisa|date=2003|publisher=Chronicle Books|isbn=978-0811837880|location=San Francisco|language=English|oclc = 475042307}}{{Cite book|title=Gaetano Pesce: materia e differenza|last=Martino|first=Carlo|date=2007|publisher=Marsilio|isbn=9788831789288|location=Venezia|language=Italian|oclc = 187980569}}{{Cite book|title=Atomic dwelling: anxiety, domesticity, and postwar architecture|last=Schuldenfrei|first=Robin|date=2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780415676083|location=Abingdon, Oxon; New York|language=English|oclc = 707965989}}

Architecture career

Pesce, born on 8 November 1939 in La Spezia, Italy, studied architecture at the University of Venice, with such notable teachers as Carlo Scarpa and Ernesto Rogers. Between 1958 and 1963, Pesce participated in Gruppo N, an early collective concerned with programmed art patterned after the Bauhaus. Since the 1960s, Gaetano Pesce has been known to relate art to the design of interiors, products, and architecture.{{cite news|last1=Perry|first1=Amy|title=The Legendary Gaetano Pesce on Work and Life|url=http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/|newspaper=The New York Times|date=8 May 2013|access-date=24 December 2015|archive-date=11 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211055434/http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|title=Gaetano Pesce: some works from 1969–1990.|last1=Pesce|first1=Gaetano|last2=Kuramata|first2=Shirō|date=1991|publisher=Gallery·Ma|location=Tokyo|oclc = 48816683}} The New York Times critic Herbert Muschamp described Pesce as "the architectural equivalent of a brainstorm." {{cite news|last1=Muschamp|first1=Herbert|title=It's A Mad Mad Mad Ad World|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/16/magazine/it-s-a-mad-mad-mad-ad-world.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=16 October 1994|access-date=28 August 2017|archive-date=6 April 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240406013702/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/16/magazine/it-s-a-mad-mad-mad-ad-world.html|url-status=live}} Pesce's well known work includes Organic Building in Osaka, Japan, a Landmark vertical garden building designed to concealing a complex, computer-controlled hydration system to sustain plant growth, and the interior architecture of the Chiat/Day offices, an early workplace village modeled after urban life.{{cite book|last1=Turner|first1=Gavin|last2=Myerson|first2=Jeremy|title=New Workspace, New Culture: Office Design as a Catalyst for Change|date=1998|publisher=Gower Publishing Company|isbn=978-0566080289|pages=144 pages|url=http://www.gowerpublishing.com/|access-date=15 January 2016|archive-date=15 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715060104/http://www.gowerpublishing.com/|url-status=live}} Among Pesce's architecture achievements are Les Halles ACIH (1979) and Parc de la Villette (1985), Paris, France, a complex of forms shaped like a running child.{{cite book|last1=Vanlaethem|first1=France|title=Gaetano Pesce : architecture, design, art|date=1989|publisher=Rizzoli|location=New York|isbn=978-0847810864|pages=126 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm}}

Pesce's prototypical three-dimensional models and architectural drawings are held in the permanent museum collections of MoMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; San Francisco Museum of Art, California; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Vitra Design Museum, Germany; Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen; Centre Pompidou and Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France, and the Triennale Museum, Milan, Italy.{{cite news|title=Gaetano Pesce|url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/|publisher=The Centre Pompidou|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=20 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110220224311/http://www.centrepompidou.fr/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=UP5 & UP6 Donna (1969): Gaetano Pesce|url=http://www.design-museum.de/|publisher=The Vitra Museum|date=1982|access-date=24 December 2015|archive-date=3 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503215633/http://www.design-museum.de/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Collections: Gaetano Pesce|url=http://www.philamuseum.org/|publisher=Philadelphia Museum of Art|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=5 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705135705/http://www.philamuseum.org/|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://en.red-dot.org/1694.html |title=Gaetano Pesce is AW Ontwerper van het Jaar |accessdate=27 March 2007 |author=reddot online |date=7 February 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927012152/http://en.red-dot.org/1694.html |archive-date=27 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|title=Gaetano Pesce Italian 1939, La Spezia, Italy|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Gaetano_Pesce|website=www.sfmoma.org|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=17 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117145349/https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Gaetano_Pesce|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Gaetano Pesc|url=https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18044441/|website=collection.cooperhewitt.org|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=17 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117014954/https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18044441/|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=Gaetano Pesce: Architecture, Design, Art|date=1989|publisher=Rizzoli International Publications|location=United States of America|isbn=978-0847810864|edition=1st}}{{cite web|title=The Collection: Gaetano Pesce|url=http://www.moma.org/|website=MoMA|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art|access-date=27 March 2007|archive-date=23 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110223165036/http://moma.org/|url-status=live}}{{cite book|last1=Aa.Vv.|title=100 objects of italian design La Triennale di Milano: Permanent Collection of Italian Design, The Milan Triennale|date=2012|publisher=Gangemi Editore|isbn=9788849247060}}

= Architecture projects =

File:Organic building - Osaka.jpg

1980: Late Entries to the Chicago Tribune Tower Competition II. {{cite news|last1=Didero|first1=Maria Cristina|title=The value of imperfection|url=http://www.domusweb.it/|publisher=Domus|date=28 August 2014|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=3 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403011823/http://www.domusweb.it/|url-status=live}}
1983: Project for rehabilitation of the Lingotto, Turin, Italy, for the Fiat group
1984: la Maison des enfants au Parc de la Villette, Paris, France {{cite book|author1=Barzilay, Marianne|author2=Lombard – Valentino, Lucette|author3=Hayward, Catherine|title=L'Invention Du Parc : Parc De La Villette, Paris, Concours International; Parc De La Villette, Paris [International competition, 1982 – 1983]|date=1984|publisher=Graphite / E.P.P.V.|location=Paris}}
1986: Hubin Apartment, Paris{{cite book|last1=Hayat|first1=Yves J|title=Gaetano Pesce : la maison Hubin|date=1993|publisher=Galerie Catherine et Stéphane de Beyrie|location=Paris}}
1991: TBWA\Chiat\Day Offices, New York {{cite magazine|last1=Lieber|first1=Ronald B.|title=Cool Offices Blowing Out Your Walls and Gettng Rid of Private Offices Is A Great Way To Eencourge Teamwork; Just Be Sure to Respect People's Need for Peace and Quiet|url=http://archive.fortune.com|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140712160702/http://fortune.com/|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 July 2014|magazine=Fortune Magazine|date=9 December 1996|access-date=24 January 2018}}
1993: Organic Building, Osaka, Japan{{cite news|title=Gaetano Pesce retrospective opens in NYC|url=http://archinect.com/|publisher=Archinet News|date=May 2013|access-date=24 December 2015|archive-date=24 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224105554/http://archinect.com/|url-status=live}}
1994: Shuman Residence, New York {{cite news|last1=Ballen|first1=Sian|last2=Hauge|first2=Lesley|title=Ruth Shuman|url=http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/|publisher=New York Social Diary|date=9 November 2012|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=10 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151110103352/http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/|url-status=live}}
1994: Art Gallery. Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium
1994: Bahia House, Brazil {{cite news |last1=Sutherland |first1=Jim |title=Gaetano Pesce: The provocative Italian architect and designer on his history of doing things 'badly'—on purpose, of course |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323415304578368621729919986 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=22 March 2013 |access-date=28 August 2017 |archive-date=7 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240307104302/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323415304578368621729919986 |url-status=live}}

Industrial design

From the 1960s on, Pesce researched the function and form of utilitarian and decorative objects, including furniture, jewellery, and shoes, from the perspective of human emotion, environment, and production. Pesce is known for innovative high-minded modern design with wit and style.{{Cite book|title=Creativitalia: the joy of Italian design|last1=Pesce|first1=Gaetano|last2=Celant|first2=Germano|date=1990|publisher=Electa; Hatsubaimoto Kureativitaria Jikkō Iinkai|location=Milano; Tōkyō|language=English|oclc = 26402623}} Pesce challenged accepted standards of abstraction, uniformity, and homogeneity. On the architect-designer, critic Susan Slesin wrote, "For Gaetano Pesce, to be modern is to face the world squarely and use design as a means to comment on it.{{cite news|last1=Slesin|first1=Suzanne|title=Modern Notions Of Design: The Furniture of Gaetano Pesce|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/10/garden/modern-notions-of-design-the-furniture-of-gaetano-pesce.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=10 November 1988|access-date=28 August 2017|archive-date=1 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201180921/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/10/garden/modern-notions-of-design-the-furniture-of-gaetano-pesce.html|url-status=live}} Pesce expanded the established notions of Modernism through the creation functional, imperfect, and warm product design.{{cite news|last1=Sutherland|first1=Jim|title=Gaetano Pesce: the provocative Italian architect and designer on his history of doing things 'badly'-on purpose, of course|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=23 March 2013}} He connected art and society to design through organic form, for production by B&B Italia (formerly C & B Italia),{{Cite book|title=The long life of design in Italy: B & B Italia 50 years and beyond|last=Casciani|first=Stefano|date=2016|publisher=Skira Editore|isbn=9788857231808|location=Milano|language=English|oclc = 990773592}} Vitra, Cassina, and fabric design, such as People (1987), composed of 570 different figures, all of which incorporate ideas about variation and diversity in contemporary society.{{Cite book|title=Process: 50 product designs from concept to manufacture|last=Hudson|first=Jennifer|date=2008|publisher=Laurence King|isbn=9781856695411|location=London|language=English|oclc = 191856123}}{{Cite book|title=Textiles and new Technology 2010|last1=Braddock|first1=Sarah|last2=O'Mahony|first2=Marie|date=1994|publisher=Artemis|isbn=978-1874056089|location=London|language=English|oclc = 929911867}}

File:Gaetano pesce per cassina spa., tavolo sansone I, 1980.jpg

Pesce's iconic feminist armchair - a fulsome bulbous form and attached ball-shaped ottoman – alternately referred to as La Mamma, Big Mama, Donna, and Up chair – continues to inspire interpretation nearly 50 years after its creation.{{Cite web|url = https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-story-behind-gaetano-pesces-iconic-armchair|title = The Story Behind Gaetano Pesce's Iconic Armchair|date = 13 September 2017|access-date = 17 May 2018|archive-date = 17 May 2018|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180517223359/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-story-behind-gaetano-pesces-iconic-armchair|url-status = live}} According to curator and author of SuperDesign, Maria Cristina Didero, "Pesce wanted to produce something about the condition of women in the world. The chair can be read as the mother, and the stool her child. But it could also be a ball and chain [suggesting] woman and the prison she was obliged to live in."{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/melbourne-design-week-celebrates-a-feverish-period-for-italys-radicals-20180223-h0wjfz.html|title=Melbourne Design Week celebrates a feverish period for Italy's radicals|last=Edgar|first=Ray|date=26 February 2018|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=29 May 2018|archive-date=17 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517223504/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/melbourne-design-week-celebrates-a-feverish-period-for-italys-radicals-20180223-h0wjfz.html|url-status=live}}

Pesce is perhaps best known for his work with resin, moulds, and casting techniques used to create objects, including vases, chairs, lamps and the two-dimensional reliefs that the designer called “industrial skins.”{{Cite book|title=The furniture machine: furniture since 1990|last=Williams|first=Gareth|date=2006|publisher=V & A|isbn=9781851774944|location=London|language=English|oclc = 70672622}} From 1987 onwards, he infused ordinary materials with experimental additives, such as liquid plant resin, and worked with foam and urethane, simplify the manufacturing processes and adapt limited industrial capabilities.{{Cite news|url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/the-legendary-designer-gaetano-pesce-wrings-feminism-out-of-furniture|title=The Legendary Designer Gaetano Pesce Wrings Feminism Out of Furniture|last=Viladas|first=Pilar|work=W Magazine|access-date=29 May 2018|language=en|archive-date=18 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518054635/https://www.wmagazine.com/story/the-legendary-designer-gaetano-pesce-wrings-feminism-out-of-furniture|url-status=live}} Pesce credited the early influence of his student work with three venerable Murano glassmakers{{Cite book |title=Yalos: why glass? |last1=Barbero |first1=Luca Massimo |last2=Claudia Gian Ferrari studio di consulenza per il '900 italiano (Milan |first2=Italy) |last3=Caterina Tognon Arte Contemporanea (Venice |first3=Italy) |date=2008 |publisher=Charta |isbn=9788881586691 |location=Milan; New York |oclc=226976604}} — Moretti, Vistosi, and Venini — whose casting techniques for informing his label-defying works of sculpture, furniture, vessels, and paintings.{{Cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/moca-pacific-design-center-honors-926785|title=MOCA Pacific Design Center Honors "Disruptor" Artist Gaetano Pesce|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=29 May 2018|language=en|archive-date=17 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517223554/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/moca-pacific-design-center-honors-926785|url-status=live}} Even Pesce's own experimentation in glassmaking led to inventive techniques and highly original results.{{Cite news|url=https://www.designboom.com/design/gaetano-pesce-five-glassmaking-techniques-murano-glass-museum-06-02-2017/|title=gaetano pesce's five glassmaking techniques at murano glass museum|date=2 June 2017|work=designboom {{!}} architecture & design magazine|access-date=29 May 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=17 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517223549/https://www.designboom.com/design/gaetano-pesce-five-glassmaking-techniques-murano-glass-museum-06-02-2017/|url-status=live}} Pesce even used urethane resin to create necklaces, bracelets, brooches, and rings.{{Cite news|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/gaetano-pesce-jewelry-collection|title=Gaetano Pesce unveils a new line of jewelry {{!}} Architectural Digest|work=Architectural Digest|access-date=29 May 2018|language=en|archive-date=17 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517223708/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/gaetano-pesce-jewelry-collection|url-status=live}}

For Pesce, the design and development of portable goods always incorporated craft-specialization, history, humour, and the human need for connection. Pesce's industrial design techniques such as diversified series production is a process by which he experimented with materials using a craft manufacturing sensibility applied to mass production methodology. On the production line, for example, factory workers vary proportions to produce a series of objects with an "imperfect and warm" quality.{{cite news |last1=Viladas |first1=Pilar |title=What's the Big Idea? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/magazine/what-s-the-big-idea.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 June 2002 |access-date=28 August 2017 |archive-date=7 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507161044/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/magazine/what-s-the-big-idea.html |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Giovannini |first1=Joseph |publisher=NY Times Art & Design |title=Gaetano Pesce: 'One-of-a-Kind Iconic Works, 1967–2015 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/arts/design/gaetano-pesce-one-of-a-kind-iconic-works-1967-2015.html#:~:text=At%20Gaetano%20Pesce's%20solo,enshrined%20in%20the%20museum's%20vitrines. |date=26 March 2015 |access-date=28 August 2017 |archive-date=10 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200910173120/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/arts/design/gaetano-pesce-one-of-a-kind-iconic-works-1967-2015.html |url-status=live}}

Socio-political messaging is found in Pesce's collections, such as "Nobody’s Perfect" (2002) by Zerodisegno, and the 2010 series of irregularly shaped tables for Cassina, which together form the recognizable shape of a boot shape, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy,{{cite web|title=Sensantunna|url=http://sessantuna.cassina.com|archive-url=https://archive.today/20100614082755/http://sessantuna.cassina.com/|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 June 2010|publisher=Cassina}} and celebrate human diversity and connection,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/object-lessons-a-psychedelic-cabinet-from-gaetano-pesce-and-more|title=Object lessons: A psychedelic cabinet from Gaetano Pesce and more|date=25 April 2018|access-date=17 May 2018|archive-date=18 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518054423/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/object-lessons-a-psychedelic-cabinet-from-gaetano-pesce-and-more|url-status=live}} as well as one-of-a-kind pieces like “America Table” (2012), with a red-white-and-blue resin tabletop American flag supported on letters that spell “independence,” and “Verbal Abuse” (1994), a tall, grided lamp that bends forward with attachable weights.{{Cite book|title=Miller's 20th century design: the definitive illustrated sourcebook.|last=Miller|first=Judith|date=2012|publisher=Mitchell beazley|isbn=9781845337230|location=London|language=English|oclc = 812809113}}

Pesce's unconventional mixed-media industrial design and organic forms collected in major museums across the world ascribe the work to the realm of art. A 2014 retrospective exhibition The Time of Diversity at the MAXXI, National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome, charted the artfulness of Pesce's product design from the 1960s to the present.{{cite news|last1=Manuelli|first1=Sara|title=Design maverick Gaetano Pesce explores diversity in a retrospective at the Maxxi Museum, Rome|url=http://www.wallpaper.com/|date=24 July 2014|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=10 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151110001525/http://www.wallpaper.com/|url-status=live}} Recent exhibitions such as “What it is to be Human,” at The Peninsula Chicago, Art Basel in Hong Kong, and an artist-in-resident program at Peninsula Beijing, all featuring works by Pesce that expand the renown artist and architect's history of public commitment to the arts.{{Cite news|url=https://michiganavemag.com/sponsored-the-peninsula-showcases-gaetano-pesce|title=Sponsored: The Peninsula Chicago Showcases Gaetano Pesce|access-date=29 May 2018|language=en|archive-date=17 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517223831/https://michiganavemag.com/sponsored-the-peninsula-showcases-gaetano-pesce|url-status=live}} In 2016, Pesce unveiled a site-specific sculpture "Majesty Betrayed" on the Piazza Santa Maria Novella. The monumental female figure wrapped in a long cloak by Pesce was inspired by the Christian Maestà iconography of the Madonna on the Throne – the highly venerated Madonna Rucellai by Duccio di Boninsegna (1285), in Santa Maria Novella and later moved in the twentieth century to the Uffizi.{{Cite web|url = http://www.theflorentine.net/art-culture/2016/11/majesty-betrayed-gaetano-pesce/|title = Majesty Betrayed by Gaetano Pesce|date = 21 November 2016|access-date = 17 May 2018|archive-date = 18 May 2018|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180518054954/http://www.theflorentine.net/art-culture/2016/11/majesty-betrayed-gaetano-pesce/|url-status = live}} Pesce's sculpture entitled "Porta Ritratti" (2018) for the Milan Fuorisalone was exhibited at the entrance of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, and later, the 13th edition of Design Miami / Basel. The ambitious installation – a chair measuring over 13 feet (4 meters) high representing 20 human faces – according to Pesce, " is a Trojan horse that penetrates the Rocca dell'Arte making victims among the old mentality." The work is another compelling tribute to cultural diversity within society.{{Cite web|url=http://design.pambianconews.com/gaetano-pesce-ad-art-basel-con-la-sedia-porta-ritratti/|title=Gaetano Pesce ad Art Basel con la 'Sedia Porta Ritratti' {{!}} Pambianco Design|website=design.pambianconews.com|date=14 May 2018|language=it-IT|access-date=29 May 2018|archive-date=18 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518055659/http://design.pambianconews.com/gaetano-pesce-ad-art-basel-con-la-sedia-porta-ritratti/|url-status=live}}

Gallery and museum exhibitions

Pesce's architecture and design have been published, exhibited, and collected internationally and included in the permanent collections of museums around the world.{{Cite book|title=Gaetano Pesce: Murano : cinque tecniche per il vetro|last1=Pesce|first1=Gaetano|last2=Corda|first2=Sara|date=2017|publisher=C. Grenzi|isbn=9788884316653|location=Foggia|language=Italian|oclc = 989139543}}{{Cite book|title=Italian design|last1=Bosoni|first1=Giampiero|last2=Museum of Modern Art (New York|first2=N.Y.)|date=2008|publisher=MoMA; 5 Continents Editions; Distributed in the United States and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers|isbn=9780870707384|location=New York; Milan; New York|language=English|oclc = 216939341}}

= Solo exhibitions =

1975: Gaetano Pesce, Le futur est peut-être passé ("Gaetano Pesce, The future is perhaps past"): Centre de Création Industrielle, Établissement Public du Centre Beaubourg, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris {{Cite book|title=Guide sommaire a travers le Musée des arts décoratifs|url=https://archive.org/details/guidesommairetra00mus|date=1905|publisher=Lahure|doi = 10.5479/sil.386901.39088006374375}}
1983: Gaetano Pesce : a Yale School of Architecture Exhibition.{{cite news|last1=Martin|first1=Douglas|title=Spring In La Cite|url=https://www.nytimes.com/|publisher=The New York Times: Travel|date=22 April 1984|access-date=28 August 2017|archive-date=21 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=Gaetano Pesce : a Yale School of Architecture Exhibition, October 31 – December 2, 1983|date=1983|publisher=New Haven, Conn. : Yale School of Architecture}}
1986: Gaetano Pesce 1975–1985. Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, France.{{cite book|author1=Pesce, Gaetano|title=Gaetano Pesce, 1975–1985: Musée d'art moderne de Strasbourg, 29 mai-17 août 1986.|date=1986|publisher=Le Musée|location=Strasbourg|oclc=192378148}}{{Cite book|last=Prina|first=Daniela|chapter=Pesce, Gaetano (1939–)|title=The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design|doi=10.5040/9781472596154-bed-p035|year=2016|pages=47–48 |isbn=9781472596154}}
1988: Gaetano Pesce: Drawings, Models, Prototypes. Max Protetch Gallery, New York {{cite news|last1=Slesin|first1=Suzanne|title=Modern Notions Of Design: The Furniture of Gaetano Pesce|url=https://www.nytimes.com/|publisher=The New York Times: Home & Garden|date=10 November 1988|access-date=28 August 2017|archive-date=21 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/|url-status=live}}
1988: Modern Times Again. Steelcase Design Partnership, New York, New York
1989: Gaetano Pesce: Steelcase design partnership. Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1989: Gaetano Pesce : produire industriellement la différence. UQAM, Centre de design, Montréal, Canada {{Cite book|title=Gaetano Pesce: produire industriellement la différence.|last1=Pesce|first1=Gaetano|last2=Vanlaethem|first2=France|last3=Université du Québec à Montréal|last4=Centre de design|date=1989|publisher=UQAM, Centre de design|location=Montréal|language=French|oclc = 77662781}}
1991: Gaetano Pesce. Collaborative Exhibition. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel;{{Cite book|title=Gaetano Pesce.|last1=Pesce|first1=Gaetano|last2=Tel Aviv Museum of Art|date=1991|publisher=Tel Aviv Museum of Art|location=Tel Aviv|oclc = 938812067}}{{cite web|title=Architecture and Design|url=http://www.tamuseum.org.il/collection-category/design-and-architecture|website=www.tamuseum.org|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=26 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126021859/http://www.tamuseum.org.il/collection-category/design-and-architecture|url-status=live}} Peter Joseph Gallery, New York
1996: Gaetano Pesce Le temps des questions, retrospective. Forum of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.{{cite web|title=Gaetano Pesce : Le temps des questions|url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/resource/cxAA5ax/rejK6B7|website=www.centrepompidou.fr|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=24 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224111736/https://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/resource/cxAA5ax/rejK6B7|url-status=live}}
1997: Gaetano Pesce, Material Connection, New York, N.Y.{{cite news|last1=Ward|first1=Timothy Jack|title=Currents: GAETANO PESCE – Somewhere Over the Rainbow|url=https://www.nytimes.com/|publisher=The New York Times: Home & Garden|date=16 October 1997|access-date=28 August 2017|archive-date=21 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/|url-status=live}}
1997: Currents 69: GAETANO PESCE. Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO.
1997: Gaetano Pesce. The Gallery Mourmans, Zoute {{Cite book|title=Gaetano Pesce|last1=Gabriel|first1=Jean-Pierre|last2=Hesmerg|first2=Erik|date=1997|language=English|oclc = 986998462}}
1998: The presence of objets—Gaetano Pesce. Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts{{Cite book|title=The presence of objets—Gaetano Pesce.|last1=Pesce|first1=Gaetano|last2=Musée des arts décoratifs de Montréal|date=1998|publisher=Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts|location=Montreal|language=English|oclc = 51537521}}
1999: Gaetano Pesce: The Presence of the Objects. Columbia GSAPP, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.{{cite book|last1=Pesce|first1=Gaetano|editor1-last=Columbia University. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation|editor2-last=Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture|title=Gaetano Pesce, the presence of objects|date=1999|oclc=642574824}}
2002: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
2005: Gaetano Pesce: Pushing the Limits. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.{{cite news|last1=Hiesinger, Curator|first1=Kathryn|title=Gaetano Pesce's Design is Subject of 'Pushing the Limits' at Philadelphia Museum of Art: November 18 through April 9, 2006|publisher=Philadelphia Museum of Art|date=21 October 2005}}
2005: Gaetano Pesce: Il rumore del tempo. Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy.{{cite news|title=Gaetano Pesce: Il rumore del tempo|url=http://www.triennale.org/|publisher=Triennale di Milano|date=2005|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=5 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405142305/http://www.triennale.org/|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|title=Il rumore del tempo: Gaetano Pesce|last1=Pesce|first1=Gaetano|last2=Annicchiarico|first2=Silvana|date=2005|publisher=Charta|isbn=978-8881585182|location=Milano|language=Italian|oclc = 930389246}}{{Cite book|title=Gaetano Pesce: 14 Aprile 2005, Triennale, Milano, Italia; [intervista|last1=Obrist|first1=Hans-Ulrich|last2=Pesce|first2=Gaetano|date=2005|publisher=Domus|location=Milano|language=English|oclc = 315730881}}
2005: H2O. Gaetano Pesce. Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) {{cite book|title=Gaetano Pesce|date=2005|publisher=IVAM, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern : Generalitat Valenciana, Conselleria de Cultura, Educació|location=Valencia}}
2007: Pink Pavilion di Gaetano Pesce, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy{{cite news|title=Pink Pavilion di Gaetano Pesce|url=http://www.triennale.org/|publisher=La Triennale di Milano|date=2007|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=5 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405142305/http://www.triennale.org/|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|title=Pink pavilion: Gaetano Pesce|last1=Annicchiarico|first1=Silvana|last2=Pesce|first2=Gaetano|date=2008|publisher=Electa|isbn=9788837059804|location=Milano|language=English|oclc = 890612055}}
2010: Gaetano Pesce: Pieces from a Larger Puzzle. Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, California.{{cite news|title=GAETANO PESCE: PIECES FROM A LARGER PUZZLE|url=http://www.iiclosangeles.esteri.it|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131024051004/http://www.iiclosangeles.esteri.it/|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 October 2013|agency=ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA LOS ANGELES|date=2010}}{{cite magazine|last1=Hodge|first1=Brooke|title=Seeing Things: Gaetano Pesce in L.A.|url=http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/|magazine=New York Times Magazine|date=8 July 2010|access-date=24 December 2015|archive-date=11 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211055434/http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/|url-status=live}}
2011: L’Italia in Croce di Gaetano Pesce. Venice BiennaleItalian Pavilion, Italian Cultural Institute of New York.{{cite web|title=PADIGLIONE ITALIA NEL MONDO-VENICE BIENNALE 2011: Gaetano Pesce and Angelo Filomeno exhibition|url=http://www.iicnewyork.esteri.it|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160925160442/http://www.iicnewyork.esteri.it/|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 September 2016|website=IICNew York|publisher=Italian Cultural Institute in New York}}{{cite news|last1=Zandardi|first1=Eva|title=Gaetano Pesce and Angelo Filomeno, An Exhibition On view at La Galleria, Italian Cultural Institute of New York|url=http://www.iicnewyork.esteri.it|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160925160442/http://www.iicnewyork.esteri.it/|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 September 2016|publisher=The Italian Cultural Institute of New York|date=3 October 2011}}
2013: Gaetano Pesce: L'Abbraccio. Fred Torres Collaborations, New York {{cite web|title=Fred Torres Gallery|url=http://www.fredtorres.com/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151128044805/http://www.fredtorres.com/|archive-date=28 November 2015}}{{cite magazine|last1=Hanley|first1=William|title=Exhibition: Gaetano Pesce: L'Abbraccio|url=http://www.architecturalrecord.com/|magazine=Architectural Record|date=29 March 2013|access-date=24 December 2015|archive-date=9 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009081847/https://www.architecturalrecord.com/|url-status=live}}
2013: Gaetano Pesce Retrospective. Collective.1 Design Fair, Pier 57, New York, N.Y.{{cite news|last1=Perry|first1=Amy|title=The Legendary Gaetano Pesce on Work and Life|url=http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/|publisher=The New York Times Style magazine|date=8 May 2013|access-date=24 December 2015|archive-date=11 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211055434/http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/|url-status=live}}
2014: Gaetano Pesce: Il tempo della diversità. una retrospettiva, MAXXI, National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome.{{cite news|last1=Fondazione MAXXI|title=Gaetano Pesce. The time of diversity: 26 June 2014 – 5 October 2014|publisher=MAXXI: Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo}}{{cite news|last1=Manuelli|first1=Sara|title=Design maverick Gaetano Pesce explores diversity in a retrospective at the Maxxi Museum, Rome|publisher=Wallpaper|date=24 July 2014}}
2014:Transforming Reality: Italian Design Innovation and Fantasy. Eagle Gallery, Cafesjian Museum of Art, Armenia {{cite news|title=Transforming Reality: Italian Design Innovation and Fantasy|url=http://www.cmf.am/|publisher=Cafesjian Center for the Arts|date=2014|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=4 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151104073147/http://www.cmf.am/|url-status=live}}
2014: Gaetano Pesce: Retrospective. Sotheby's Gallery Charpentier, Paris, France.{{cite news|title=Sotheby's: Gaetano Pesce|url=http://www.domusweb.it/|publisher=Domus|date=2014|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=3 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403011823/http://www.domusweb.it/|url-status=live}}
2015: Frammenti e figure architettoniche ai quattro angoli del mondo. Galleria Antonia Jannone, Milano, Italy.{{cite web|title="Scraps and sketches from all over the world", drawings by Gaetano Pesce|url=http://www.bmiaa.com/scraps-and-sketches-from-all-over-the-world-drawings-by-gaetano-pesce/|website=bmiaa.com|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=29 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029073447/https://www.bmiaa.com/scraps-and-sketches-from-all-over-the-world-drawings-by-gaetano-pesce/|url-status=dead}}
2015: Gaetano Pesce: ‘One of a Kind Iconic Works, 1967–2015. Allouche Gallery, New York {{cite news|last1=Giovannini|first1=Joseph|title=Gaetano Pesce: 'One of a Kind Iconic Works, 1967–2015|url=https://www.nytimes.com/|newspaper=The New York Times|date=16 April 2015|access-date=28 August 2017|archive-date=21 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/|url-status=live}}
2015: Gaetano Pesce: For Her. Reinstein Ross Gallery, 30 Gansevoort Street, NYC {{cite news|title=Gaetano Pesce: For Her|url=https://reinsteinross.com/|publisher=Reinstein Ross Gallery|date=2015|access-date=24 December 2015|archive-date=24 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224110039/https://reinsteinross.com/|url-status=live}}
2015: Performance nell’installazione : La Cucina Luogo di Passione. Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy.{{cite web|title=Performance nell'installazione "La Cucina. Luogo di passione" di Gaetano Pesce|url=http://www.triennale.org/it/calendario/calendario-eventi-list/3989-performance-degli-studenti-del-laboratorio-di-teatro-delluniversita-iulm-nellinstallazione-qla-cucina-luogo-di-passioneq-di-gaetano-pesce#.VkULh6REyjc|website=triennale.org|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=10 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010092607/https://triennale.org/it/calendario/calendario-eventi-list/3989-performance-degli-studenti-del-laboratorio-di-teatro-delluniversita-iulm-nellinstallazione-qla-cucina-luogo-di-passioneq-di-gaetano-pesce#.VkULh6REyjc|url-status=dead}}
2015: Gaetano Pesce: Frammenti e figure architettoniche ai quattro angoli del mondo. Galleria Antonia Jannone, Milan, Italy {{cite news|title="Scraps and sketches from all over the world", drawings by Gaetano Pesce|url=http://www.bmiaa.com/|publisher=BMIAA|date=30 April 2015|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=23 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201123165058/https://www.bmiaa.com/|url-status=dead}}
2016: Fish Design, Maison & Objet, Paris {{cite news|last1=Pesce|first1=Gaetano|title=Fish Design – Hall 7 — Stand G175|publisher=Maison&Objet Paris 2015}}
2016: Gaetano Pesce: Molds (Gelati Misti) MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles{{Cite web|url=https://www.moca.org/exhibition/gaetano-pesce-molds-gelati-misti|title=Gaetano Pesce: Molds (Gelati Misti)|website=The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles|access-date=29 May 2018|archive-date=18 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518054749/https://www.moca.org/exhibition/gaetano-pesce-molds-gelati-misti|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/gaetano-pesce-molds-exhibition-moca|title=Gaetano Pesce's Show "Gelati Misti" Isn't About Ice Cream {{!}} Architectural Digest|work=Architectural Digest|access-date=29 May 2018|language=en|archive-date=18 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518130054/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/gaetano-pesce-molds-exhibition-moca|url-status=live}}
2016: Gaetano Pesce 'Gli Armadi Parlanti' ('The Speaking Cabinets') Salon 94, Design Miami{{Cite news|url=https://www.wallpaper.com/art/gaetano-pesce-tree-vases-sculpture-salon-94-design-miami|title=Above the tree tops: Gaetano Pesce branches out at Design Miami|last=Magazine|first=Wallpaper*|date=1 December 2016|work=Wallpaper*|access-date=29 May 2018|archive-date=18 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518055606/https://www.wallpaper.com/art/gaetano-pesce-tree-vases-sculpture-salon-94-design-miami|url-status=live}}
2017: Gaetano Pesce : architettura e fugurazione. Complesso Museale di Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy{{Cite book|title=Gaetano Pesce: architettura e fugurazione|last1=Pesce|first1=Gaetano|last2=Mazzantini|first2=Renata Cristina|last3=Palazzo ducale (Museum : Mantua|first3=Italy)|date=2017|publisher=Claudio Grenzi editore |isbn=9788884316660|language=Italian|oclc = 989146259}}
2019: Gaetano Pesce: Workingallery, Salon 94 Design, New York{{Cite web|url=https://salon94design.com/workingallery-pesce/|title=Salon 94 Design|website=Salon 94 Design|language=en-US|access-date=29 January 2020|archive-date=29 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129225742/https://salon94design.com/workingallery-pesce/|url-status=dead}}
2019: Gaetano Pesce: Age of Contaminations. Friedman Benda, New York{{Cite web|url=http://www.friedmanbenda.com/exhibitions/past/gaetano-pesce-age-of-contaminations|title=Gaetano Pesce: Age of Contaminations – Exhibitions – Friedman Benda|website=www.friedmanbenda.com|access-date=29 January 2020|archive-date=29 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129230150/http://www.friedmanbenda.com/exhibitions/past/gaetano-pesce-age-of-contaminations|url-status=live}}
2021: Nobody's Perfect: Pesce's First Solo, Sea World Arts and Culture Center, Shenzhen, China
2023: Dear Future, Goldwyn House, Los Angeles{{Cite web |title=Gaetano Pesce: Dear Future |url=https://www.thefutureperfect.com/exhibition/gaetano-pesce-dear-future/ |access-date=19 March 2023 |website=The Future Perfect |language=en-US |archive-date=19 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319053542/https://www.thefutureperfect.com/exhibition/gaetano-pesce-dear-future/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Carter |first=Lee |date=6 March 2023 |title='Design Can Be a Way to Say, "Be Careful"': Creative Legend Gaetano Pesce on the Message in His New Furniture, and His Thoughts on the Future |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/gaetano-pesce-future-perfect-los-angeles-2264813 |access-date=19 March 2023 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US |archive-date=19 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319053539/https://news.artnet.com/art-world/gaetano-pesce-future-perfect-los-angeles-2264813 |url-status=live }}

= Group exhibitions and programs =

1972: The New Domestic Landscape: Achievements and Problems of Italian Design. The Museum of Modern Art, 26 May to 11 September 1972.{{cite journal|last1=Benyamin|first1=Jasmine|title=Reviewed Work: Environments and Counter Environments. "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape," MoMA, 1972|journal=Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians|date=September 2014|volume= 73|issue= 3|pages=436–437|jstor=10.1525/jsah.2014.73.3.436|doi=10.1525/jsah.2014.73.3.436}}{{cite news|last1=Shaw|first1=Elizabeth|title=Italy: The New American Landscape|url=http://www.moma.org/|issue=26|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art|date=26 May 1972|access-date=27 March 2007|archive-date=23 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110223165036/http://moma.org/|url-status=live}}

:::Architecture on Film: Italy – The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA, 1972 + Q&A with Gaetano Pesce and Peter Lang. {{cite web|last1=Architecture on Film|title=Italy – The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA, 1972 + Q&A with Gaetano Pesce and Peter Lang: Thurs 28 November 2013, 7pm|website=The Architecture Foundation|url=https://architecturefoundation.org.uk/programme/2009/architecture-on-film/new-domestic-landscape}}

1975: The Future Is Perhaps Past. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France.
1979: Transformations in Modern Architecture. MoMA, New York.{{cite book|last1=Bartolucci|first1=Marisa|last2=Cabra|first2=Raul|title=Gaetano Pesce: Compact Design Portfolio|date=2003|publisher=Chronicle Books LLC|isbn=9780811837880|page=96}}
1981: Furniture by architects : contemporary chairs, tables and lamps. Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.{{Cite book|title=Furniture by architects: contemporary chairs, tables and lamps : Emilio Ambasz, Elizabeth Diller, James Evanson, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves, Craig Hodgetts, Arata Isozaki, Mike Lance, Rodolfo Machado, Vico Magistretti, Robert Mangurian, Richard Meier, Gaetano Pesce, Jorge Silvetti, Stanley Tigerman, Billie Tsien, Tod Williams : [exhibition] Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 16 – June 28, 1981.|date=1981|publisher=MIT Committee on the Visual Arts|location=Cambridge, Mass.|language=English|oclc = 312646460}}
1986: L'eau en formes (Water forms): Vittel Design 86. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.{{cite web|title=Histoire du CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU : Chronologies|url=http://www.cnac-gp.eu}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
1991: Masterworks. Peter Joseph Gallery, New York.{{Cite book|title=Masterworks: [exhibition] Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, 1991|last1=Joseph|first1=Peter T|last2=Rybczynski|first2=Witold|last3=Danto|first3=Arthur C|last4=Peter Joseph Gallery|date=1991|publisher=The Gallery|isbn=978-0962884924|location=New York|language=English|oclc = 25495921}}
1995: Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design. Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.{{cite book|editor1-last=Antonelli|editor1-first=Paola|title=Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design|date=1995|publisher=Museum of Modern Art|location=New York|isbn=978-0870701320}}
1997: Designed for Delight: Alternative aspects of twentieth-century decorative arts, travel exhibition.

:::Canadian Museum of History; Cincinnati Art Museum, OH; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada;

:::Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France.{{cite book|last1=Eidelberg, Ed.|first1=Martin P.|title=Designed for delight: alternative aspects of twentieth-century decorative arts|date=1997|publisher=Flammarion|isbn=978-2080135957|page=320}}

1998: International New Glass 1998: Venezia aperto vetro. Fortuny Museum, Doge's Palace,

:::and Istituto Statale d'Arte di Venezia, Italy.{{cite book|author1=Dorigato, A.|author2=Klein, D.|author3=Mentasti, R.B.|title=International new glass 1998 : Venezia aperto vetro|publisher=Electa|location=Milan|oclc=40471050}}

2002: Mod to Memphis : design in colour 1960s–80s. Powerhouse Pub, Sydney {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4C9QAAAAMAAJ|title=Mod to Memphis: design in colour 1960s–80s|last1=Watson|first1=Anne|last2=Powerhouse Museum|date=2002|publisher=Powerhouse Pub.|location=Sydney|isbn=9781863170949|language=English}}
2003: Inside Design Now. Triennial of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, New York.{{cite web|last1=Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum|title=Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Presents Second "National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now" Reviews Cutting-edge U.S. Design of Past Three Years|url=https://www.google.com/search?q=Bass+Museum+and+US+Design%3A+1975-2000#q=+National+Design+Triennial+and+Cooper-Hewitt+National+Design+Museum+and+Gaetano+Pesce+|website=cdn.cooperhewitt.org|access-date=5 December 2020|archive-date=9 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009162539/https://www.google.com/search?q=Bass+Museum+and+US+Design:+1975-2000#q=+National+Design+Triennial+and+Cooper-Hewitt+National+Design+Museum+and+Gaetano+Pesce+|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Muschamp |first1=Herbert |date=25 April 2003 |title=Design Review : The National Design Triennial, A Frontier Spirit in Anxious Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/ |archive-date=21 July 2018 |access-date=28 August 2017 |publisher=The New York Times: Art & Design}}
2003: US Design: 1975–2000, travel exhibition. Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee.{{cite news|last1=Villarreal|first1=Ignacio|title=The Brooks Presents US DESIGN, 1975–2000|url=http://artdaily.com/|publisher=Art Daily|date=2004|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=17 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170817080237/http://artdaily.com/|url-status=live}} Bass Museum of Art, Miami;{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Ken|title=Art Review: Elegance, Wit and Pop in a Quarter-Century of American Design|url=https://www.nytimes.com/|publisher=The New York Times: Art & Design|date=8 August 2003|access-date=28 August 2017|archive-date=21 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/|url-status=live}}

:::Museum of Art & Design, (formerly American Craft Museum), New York, N.Y.{{cite news|last1=Hamilton|first1=William L.|title=Trading Baskets For Plastics|url=https://www.nytimes.com/|publisher=The New York Times: Home & Garden|date=19 June 2003|access-date=28 August 2017|archive-date=21 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/|url-status=live}}

2008: Formless Furniture. Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna{{cite web|title=Formless Furniture|url=http://www.museum-gestaltung.ch/en/exhibitions/review/exhibitions-2009/formless-furniture/|website=.museum-gestaltung.ch|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=7 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207005642/http://www.museum-gestaltung.ch/en/exhibitions/review/exhibitions-2009/formless-furniture/|url-status=live}}
2008: Dreamland: Architectural Experiments Since the 1970s. MoMA, New York, N.Y.{{cite news|last1=Brake|first1=Alan G.|title=Fitful Sleep Dreamland: Architectural Experiments Since the 1970s|url=http://archpaper.com/|publisher=The Architect's Newspaper|date=3 September 2008|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=24 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124013725/http://www.archpaper.com/|url-status=live}}
2012: Design Miami. {{cite news|last1=Lasky|first1=Julie|title=After the Boom, a Better Kind of Art|url=https://www.nytimes.com/|newspaper=The New York Times|date=12 December 2012|access-date=28 August 2017|archive-date=21 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/|url-status=live}}
2013: Pop Art Design. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.{{cite news|title=Pop Art and Pop Art Design, the Nexus of What was Radical and New|url=http://arttattler.com/|publisher=Art Tatler|date=29 June 2013|access-date=24 December 2015|archive-date=29 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029021451/http://arttattler.com/|url-status=live}}
2016: Tempting Art: Edible gems. Whitechapel Gallery, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg {{Cite book|title=Tempting art edible gems|last1=Galante|first1=Maurizio|last2=Lancman|first2=Tal|last3=Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean|date=2016|publisher=Mudam|isbn=9782919923595|location=Luxembourg|oclc = 961320283}}
2015: New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America, Museum of Arts and Design{{cite web|title=New Territories Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America November 4, 2014 to April 5, 2015|url=http://madmuseum.org/exhibition/new-territories|website=madmuseum.or|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=19 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151219021759/http://www.madmuseum.org/exhibition/new-territories|url-status=live}}
2015: Kitchens & Invaders. VIII Triennale Design Museum, Viale Emilio Alemagna. Milan, Italy.{{cite news|title=VIII Triennale Design Museum; Kitchen Invaders|url=http://www.triennale.org/|publisher=Tiennale di Milano|date=9 April 2015|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=5 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405142305/http://www.triennale.org/|url-status=live}}
2019: Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany.{{Cite web|url=https://www.design-museum.de/en/exhibitions/detailpages/objects-of-desire-surrealism-and-design.html|title=Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design|website=www.design-museum.de|language=en-EN|access-date=29 January 2020|archive-date=29 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129225908/https://www.design-museum.de/en/exhibitions/detailpages/objects-of-desire-surrealism-and-design.html|url-status=live}}
2019: Performa 19. New York.
2021: “No more silent object”. Salon94 Gallery, New York.

Academic experience

For 28 years, Pesce taught architectural design at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) (National Institute of Applied Sciences), Strasbourg, France; Domus Academy, Milan, Italy; City University of Hong Kong, China; Escola da Cidade, (AEAUSP), (Architectural School of São Paulo), Brazil; Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and in New York, from 1980 on, at the Cooper Union.{{cite book|last1=Vanlaethem|first1=France|title=Architecture, design, art|date=1989|publisher=Rizzoli|location=New York|isbn=978-0847810864|edition=1. publ. in the United States of America.}}{{Cite web |last=Katsikopoulou |first=Myrto |date=4 April 2024 |title=gaetano pesce, visionary italian architect and designer, passes away at 84 |url=https://www.designboom.com/design/gaetano-pesce-visionary-italian-architect-designer-passes-away-84-04-04-2024/ |access-date=5 April 2024 |website=designboom {{!}} architecture & design magazine |language=en}}

Death

Gaetano Pesce died on 3 April 2024, at the age of 84.{{cite news |title=Addio a Gaetano Pesce |url=https://www.elledecor.com/it/people/a60390206/gaetano-pesce-morto/ |access-date=4 April 2024 |publisher=Elle Decor |date=4 April 2024 |archive-date=4 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404071305/https://www.elledecor.com/it/people/a60390206/gaetano-pesce-morto/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Our farewell to Gaetano Pesce {{!}} Salone del Mobile |url=https://www.salonemilano.it/en/articles/our-farewell-gaetano-pesce |access-date=5 April 2024 |website=www.salonemilano.it |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Harrison |title=Gaetano Pesce, impish and influential designer, dies at 84 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/04/05/gaetano-pesce-dead/ |access-date=10 April 2024 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=8 April 2024}}{{cite journal |last1=Raggi |first1=Valentina |title=Gaetano Pesce, a Great Master of Italian Design, Dies at 84 |journal=Architectural Digest |date=4 April 2024 |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/gaetano-pesce-italian-design-dies |access-date=10 April 2024}}{{Cite web |last= |first=|date=4 April 2024 |title=Muere el diseñador italiano Gaetano Pesce, creador de los icónicos sillones en poliuretano |url=https://www.infobae.com/america/agencias/2024/04/04/muere-el-disenador-italiano-gaetano-pesce-creador-de-los-iconicos-sillones-en-poliuretano/ |access-date=5 April 2024 |website=Infobae |language=es-ES}}

Professional recognition

1975: Special Prize: Genesi? Fourth International Lighting Design Competition
1993: Chrysler Design Award for Innovation and Design. [http://www.chrysler.com/design/design_influences/design_awards/1993/ Chrysler design awards homepage] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070404091336/http://www.chrysler.com/design/design_influences/design_awards/1993/ |date=4 April 2007 }}
1995: Interior Design Magazine Award for Umbrella chair. {{cite news|title=Gaetano Pesce Biography|url=http://www.artnet.com/|publisher=Artnet|access-date=24 December 2015|archive-date=21 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221135401/http://www.artnet.com/|url-status=live}}
2004: Good Design Award. The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture And Design {{cite web|title=Good Design Awards|url=https://chi-athenaeum.org/archviescomingsoon.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606233700/https://chi-athenaeum.org/archviescomingsoon.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 June 2014}}
2005: Collab's Design Excellence Award. Philadelphia Museum of Art [http://www.uarts.edu/news/dsp_item.cfm?id=1074&item=pr Press release] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060914071211/http://www2.uarts.edu/news/dsp_item.cfm?id=1074&item=pr |date=14 September 2006 }}
2006: Designer of the Year. A&W Architektur und Wohnens, Cologne, Germany
2009: Lawrence J. Israel Prize. Interior Design Department of the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, N.Y.{{cite news|title=Interior Design Department 2009 Lawrence J. Israel Prize: Gaetano Pesce|url=http://www.fitnyc.edu/|publisher=The Fashion Institute of Technology|date=June 2009|access-date=12 November 2015|archive-date=3 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503140343/https://www.fitnyc.edu//|url-status=live}}
2010: IIC Lifetime Achievement Award. Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles {{cite news|title=PADIGLIONE ITALIA NEL MONDO-VENICE BIENNALE 2011: October 03, 2011|url=http://www.iicnewyork.esteri.it|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160925160442/http://www.iicnewyork.esteri.it/|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 September 2016|publisher=Italian Cultural Institute of New York|date=3 October 2011}}

Literature

[https://books.google.com/books/about/Gaetano_Pesce.html?id=G_BOAAAAYAAJ Gaetano Pesce: A Yale School of Architecture Exhibition, October 31-December 2, 1983], New Haven: Yale School of Architecture, 1983. ({{oclc|14070024}})
Gaetano Pesce: Multi-Disciplinary Work, Tel Aviv; New York: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Peter Joseph Gallery, 1991. ({{oclc|1075309233}})
Gaetano Pesce: Cinq Techniques Pour La Verre, Marseille: Musee de Marseille, 1992. ({{oclc|848614376}})
Gaetano Pesce: Le Temps des Questions, Paris: Centre G. Pompidou, 1996. ({{oclc|1153523314}})

Marisa Bartolucci, ed. Marisa Bartolucci and Raul Cabra, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HH1QAAAAMAAJ Gaetano Pesce: Compact Design Portfolio], San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003. ({{isbn|9780811837880}})
[https://books.google.com/books?id=gw4jPQAACAAJ Il Rumore del Tempo: Gaetano Pesce], Milan: Carta; Triennale di Milano, 2004–2005. ({{isbn|9788881585199}})
Gaetano Pesce, ed. Maria Luisa Caffarelli, Gaetano Pesce "Nobody's perfect": plastica e design, Alessandria, Italy: Citta di Alessandria, 2005. ({{oclc|62393569}})
Gaetano Pesce and Silvana Annicchiarico, Gaetano Pesce: Pink Pavillion, Milan: Electa; Triennale di Milan, 2008. ({{oclc|232963483}})
Gaetano Pesce: Pieces from a Larger Puzzle, 2010{{cite news |last1=Hodge |first1=Brooke |title=Seeing Things {{!}} Gaetano Pesce in L.A. |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/seeing-things-gaetano-pesce-in-l-a/ |access-date=10 April 2024 |work=T Magazine |date=8 July 2010 |location=(archive.nytimes.com)}}
[https://www.davidgillgallery.com/store/gaetano-pesce-catalogue Gaetano Pesce: Six Tables on Water], David Gill Gallery, 2012.{{cite web |last1=Newman |first1=Maria |title=Tables for the Ocean-Conscious |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/garden/gaetano-pesce-tables-on-display-at-david-gill-galleries-london.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=10 April 2024 |date=October 1, 2012}}
Domitilla Dardi, ed. Gianni Mercurio and Domitilla Dardi, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hci4oAEACAAJ Gaetano Pesce: Il Tempo Della Diversità: catalogo della mostra], Milan: Electa, 2014. ({{isbn|9788837099879}})
Carlo Martino, [https://books.google.com/books?id=kg4dAAAACAAJ Gaetano Pesce: Materia e differnza], Marsilio, 2007. ({{isbn|9788883820793}})
Ed. Laura Bannister, [https://books.google.com/books?id=K089zgEACAAJ Out in the world with Gaetano Pesce], New York, 2021. ({{isbn|9781736661208}})

References

External links

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[https://www.moma.org/artists/4570 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)]
[https://www.domusweb.it/en/design/gallery/2024/03/20/gaetano-pesce-talks-about-his-project-for-the-2024-design-week.html Gaetano Pesce's last interview (1939-2024)] with Maria Cristina Didero for Domus magazine

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