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

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Pesce, Gaetano, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Furniture design.

Architecture--Aesthetics.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1997.

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Recorded in a London hotel dining room, hence background sounds.

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 29, 2021).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.