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Gaetano Pesce is A&W Designer of the YearA&W Architektur und Wohnen magazine has honoured the Italian designer Gaetano Pesce as Designer of the Year 2006.
On this occasion, red dot presents a profile of this versatile artist.
Born in La Spezia, Italy, in 1939, Gaetano Pesce was trained at the University of Venice Faculty of Architecture and has since been working as an artist, designer and architect all over the world, from Europe and Japan to the United States and Brazil.
His work is considered unconventional, even controversial.
Described by prominent architecture critic Herbert Muschamp as 'the architectural equivalent of a brainstorm,' Pesce today can look back on more than 40 years of successful interdisciplinary practice.
One of his most famous industrial designs is the 'UP' series, which includes a voluptuously shaped armchair that invokes the soft forms of the female body.
Manufacturers like B&B Italia, Knoll, Cassina and Vitra have produced his furniture designs.
As an architect, he realised buildings such as the 'Organic Building' in Osaka, Japan.
'For the past 30 years, I have been trying to give architecture back its capacity to be useful,' Pesce recently said on the subject of his work.
Since 1980, Gaetano Pesce has been living in New York and from his office in Manhattan he worked for the advertising agency
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