Gaetano Pesce Explained
Gaetano Pesce |
Nationality: | Italian |
Birth Date: | 8 November 1939 |
Birth Place: | La Spezia, Kingdom of Italy |
Death Place: | New York City, U.S. |
Practice: | Architect, designer, educator |
Gaetano Pesce (8 November 1939 – 3 April 2024) was an Italian architect and a design pioneer of the 20th century.[1] Pesce was born in La Spezia in 1939, and he grew up in Padua and Florence.[2] During his 50-year career, Pesce worked as an architect, urban planner, and industrial designer.[3] [4] 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.[5] [6] [7] [8]
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.[9] [10] The New York Times critic Herbert Muschamp described Pesce as "the architectural equivalent of a brainstorm." [11] 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.[12] 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.[13]
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.[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22]
Architecture projects
- 1980: Late Entries to the Chicago Tribune Tower Competition II. [23]
- 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 [24]
- 1986: Hubin Apartment, Paris[25]
- 1991: TBWA\Chiat\Day Offices, New York [26]
- 1993: Organic Building, Osaka, Japan[27]
- 1994: Shuman Residence, New York [28]
- 1994: Art Gallery. Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium
- 1994: Bahia House, Brazil [29]
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.[30] 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.[31] Pesce expanded the established notions of Modernism through the creation functional, imperfect, and warm product design.[32] He connected art and society to design through organic form, for production by B&B Italia (formerly C & B Italia),[33] 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.[34] [35]
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.[36] 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."[37]
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.”[38] 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.[39] Pesce credited the early influence of his student work with three venerable Murano glassmakers[40] — Moretti, Vistosi, and Venini — whose casting techniques for informing his label-defying works of sculpture, furniture, vessels, and paintings.[41] Even Pesce's own experimentation in glassmaking led to inventive techniques and highly original results.[42] Pesce even used urethane resin to create necklaces, bracelets, brooches, and rings.[43]
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.[31] On the production line, for example, factory workers vary proportions to produce a series of objects with an "imperfect and warm" quality.[44] [45]
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,[31] [46] and celebrate human diversity and connection,[47] 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.[48]
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.[49] 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.[50] 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.[51] 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.[52]
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.[53] [54]
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 [55]
- 1983: Gaetano Pesce : a Yale School of Architecture Exhibition.[56] [57]
- 1986: Gaetano Pesce 1975–1985. Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, France.[58] [59]
- 1988: Gaetano Pesce: Drawings, Models, Prototypes. Max Protetch Gallery, New York [60]
- 1988: Modern Times Again. Steelcase Design Partnership, New York, New York
- 1989: Gaetano Pesce: Steelcase design partnership. Max Protech Galleryt, New York [59]
- 1989: Gaetano Pesce : produire industriellement la différence. UQAM, Centre de design, Montréal, Canada [61]
- 1991: Gaetano Pesce. Collaborative Exhibition. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel;[62] [63] Peter Joseph Gallery, New York
- 1996: Gaetano Pesce Le temps des questions, retrospective. Forum of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.[64]
- 1997: Gaetano Pesce, Material Connection, New York, N.Y.[65]
- 1997: Currents 69: GAETANO PESCE. Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO.
- 1997: Gaetano Pesce. The Gallery Mourmans, Zoute [66]
- 1998: The presence of objets—Gaetano Pesce. Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts[67]
- 1999: Gaetano Pesce: The Presence of the Objects. Columbia GSAPP, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.[68]
- 2002: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
- 2005: Gaetano Pesce: Pushing the Limits. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.[69]
- 2005: Gaetano Pesce: Il rumore del tempo. Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy.[70] [71] [72]
- 2005: H2O. Gaetano Pesce. Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) [73]
- 2007: Pink Pavilion di Gaetano Pesce, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy[74] [75]
- 2010: Gaetano Pesce: Pieces from a Larger Puzzle. Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, California.[76] [77]
- 2011: L’Italia in Croce di Gaetano Pesce. Venice BiennaleItalian Pavilion, Italian Cultural Institute of New York.[78] [79]
- 2013: Gaetano Pesce: L'Abbraccio. Fred Torres Collaborations, New York [80] [81]
- 2013: Gaetano Pesce Retrospective. Collective.1 Design Fair, Pier 57, New York, N.Y.[82]
- 2014: Gaetano Pesce: Il tempo della diversità. una retrospettiva, MAXXI, National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome.[83] [84]
- 2014:Transforming Reality: Italian Design Innovation and Fantasy. Eagle Gallery, Cafesjian Museum of Art, Armenia [85]
- 2014: Gaetano Pesce: Retrospective. Sotheby's Gallery Charpentier, Paris, France.[86]
- 2015: Frammenti e figure architettoniche ai quattro angoli del mondo. Galleria Antonia Jannone, Milano, Italy.[87]
- 2015: Gaetano Pesce: ‘One of a Kind Iconic Works, 1967–2015. Allouche Gallery, New York [88]
- 2015: Gaetano Pesce: For Her. Reinstein Ross Gallery, 30 Gansevoort Street, NYC [89]
- 2015: Performance nell’installazione : La Cucina Luogo di Passione. Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy.[90]
- 2015: Gaetano Pesce: Frammenti e figure architettoniche ai quattro angoli del mondo. Galleria Antonia Jannone, Milan, Italy [91]
- 2016: Fish Design, Maison & Objet, Paris [92]
- 2016: Gaetano Pesce: Molds (Gelati Misti) MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles[93] [94]
- 2016: Gaetano Pesce 'Gli Armadi Parlanti' ('The Speaking Cabinets') Salon 94, Design Miami[95]
- 2017: Gaetano Pesce : architettura e fugurazione. Complesso Museale di Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy[96]
- 2019: Gaetano Pesce: Workingallery, Salon 94 Design, New York[97]
- 2019: Gaetano Pesce: Age of Contaminations. Friedman Benda, New York[98]
- 2021: Nobody's Perfect: Pesce's First Solo, Sea World Arts and Culture Center, Shenzhen, China
- 2023: Dear Future, Goldwyn House, Los Angeles[99] [100]
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.[101] [102]
Architecture on Film: Italy – The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA, 1972 + Q&A with Gaetano Pesce and Peter Lang. [103]
- 1975: The Future Is Perhaps Past. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France.
- 1979: Transformations in Modern Architecture. MoMA, New York.[104]
- 1981: Furniture by architects : contemporary chairs, tables and lamps. Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.[105]
- 1986: L'eau en formes (Water forms): Vittel Design 86. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.[106]
- 1991: Masterworks. Peter Joseph Gallery, New York.[107]
- 1995: Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design. Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.[108]
- 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.[109]
and Istituto Statale d'Arte di Venezia, Italy.[110]
Museum of Art & Design, (formerly American Craft Museum), New York, N.Y.[116]
- 2008: Formless Furniture. Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna[117]
- 2008: Dreamland: Architectural Experiments Since the 1970s. MoMA, New York, N.Y.[118]
- 2012: Design Miami. [119]
- 2013: Pop Art Design. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.[120]
- 2016: Tempting Art: Edible gems. Whitechapel Gallery, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg [121]
- 2015: New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America, Museum of Arts and Design[122]
- 2015: Kitchens & Invaders. VIII Triennale Design Museum, Viale Emilio Alemagna. Milan, Italy.[123]
- 2019: Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany.[124]
- 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.[125] [126]
Death
Gaetano Pesce died on 3 April 2024, at the age of 84.[127] [128] [129] [130] [131]
Professional recognition
Literature
- Gaetano Pesce: A Yale School of Architecture Exhibition, October 31-December 2, 1983, New Haven: Yale School of Architecture, 1983.
- Gaetano Pesce: Multi-Disciplinary Work, Tel Aviv; New York: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Peter Joseph Gallery, 1991.
- Gaetano Pesce: Cinq Techniques Pour La Verre, Marseille: Musee de Marseille, 1992.
- Gaetano Pesce: Le Temps des Questions, Paris: Centre G. Pompidou, 1996.
- Marisa Bartolucci, ed. Marisa Bartolucci and Raul Cabra, Gaetano Pesce: Compact Design Portfolio, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003.
- Il Rumore del Tempo: Gaetano Pesce, Milan: Carta; Triennale di Milano, 2004–2005.
- Gaetano Pesce, ed. Maria Luisa Caffarelli, Gaetano Pesce "Nobody's perfect": plastica e design, Alessandria, Italy: Citta di Alessandria, 2005.
- Gaetano Pesce and Silvana Annicchiarico, Gaetano Pesce: Pink Pavillion, Milan: Electa; Triennale di Milan, 2008.
- Gaetano Pesce: Pieces from a Larger Puzzle, 2010[138]
- Gaetano Pesce: Six Tables on Water, David Gill Gallery, 2012.[139]
- Domitilla Dardi, ed. Gianni Mercurio and Domitilla Dardi, Gaetano Pesce: Il Tempo Della Diversità: catalogo della mostra, Milan: Electa, 2014.
- Carlo Martino, Gaetano Pesce: Materia e differnza, Marsilio, 2007.
- Ed. Laura Bannister, Out in the world with Gaetano Pesce, New York, 2021.
External links
Notes and References
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- Book: Creativitalia: the joy of Italian design. Pesce. Gaetano. Celant. Germano. 1990. Electa ; Hatsubaimoto Kureativitaria Jikkō Iinkai. Milano; Tōkyō. English. 26402623.
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- News: Sponsored: The Peninsula Chicago Showcases Gaetano Pesce. 29 May 2018. en. 17 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180517223831/https://michiganavemag.com/sponsored-the-peninsula-showcases-gaetano-pesce. live.
- Web site: Majesty Betrayed by Gaetano Pesce. 21 November 2016. 17 May 2018. 18 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180518054954/http://www.theflorentine.net/art-culture/2016/11/majesty-betrayed-gaetano-pesce/. live.
- Web site: Gaetano Pesce ad Art Basel con la 'Sedia Porta Ritratti' Pambianco Design. design.pambianconews.com. 14 May 2018. it-IT. 29 May 2018. 18 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180518055659/http://design.pambianconews.com/gaetano-pesce-ad-art-basel-con-la-sedia-porta-ritratti/. live.
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- Book: Italian design. Bosoni. Giampiero. Museum of Modern Art (New York. N.Y.). 2008. MoMA ; 5 Continents Editions ; Distributed in the United States and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers. 9780870707384. New York; Milan; New York. English. 216939341.
- Book: Guide sommaire a travers le Musée des arts décoratifs. 1905. Lahure. 10.5479/sil.386901.39088006374375.
- News: Martin. Douglas. Spring In La Cite. The New York Times: Travel. 22 April 1984. 28 August 2017. 21 July 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/. live.
- Book: Gaetano Pesce : a Yale School of Architecture Exhibition, October 31 – December 2, 1983. 1983. New Haven, Conn. : Yale School of Architecture.
- Pesce, Gaetano. Gaetano Pesce, 1975–1985: Musée d'art moderne de Strasbourg, 29 mai-17 août 1986.. 1986. Le Musée. Strasbourg. 192378148.
- Book: Prina, Daniela. Pesce, Gaetano (1939–). The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. 10.5040/9781472596154-bed-p035. 2016. 47–48 . 9781472596154.
- News: Slesin. Suzanne. Modern Notions Of Design: The Furniture of Gaetano Pesce. The New York Times: Home & Garden. 10 November 1988. 28 August 2017. 21 July 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/. live.
- Book: Gaetano Pesce: produire industriellement la différence.. Pesce. Gaetano. Vanlaethem. France. Université du Québec à Montréal. Centre de design. 1989. UQAM, Centre de design. Montréal. French. 77662781.
- Book: Gaetano Pesce.. Pesce. Gaetano. Tel Aviv Museum of Art. 1991. Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Tel Aviv. 938812067.
- Web site: Architecture and Design. www.tamuseum.org. 12 November 2015. 26 November 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151126021859/http://www.tamuseum.org.il/collection-category/design-and-architecture. live.
- Web site: Gaetano Pesce : Le temps des questions. www.centrepompidou.fr. 12 November 2015. 24 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151224111736/https://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/resource/cxAA5ax/rejK6B7. live.
- News: Ward. Timothy Jack. Currents: GAETANO PESCE – Somewhere Over the Rainbow. The New York Times: Home & Garden. 16 October 1997. 28 August 2017. 21 July 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/. live.
- Book: Gaetano Pesce. Gabriel. Jean-Pierre. Hesmerg. Erik. 1997. English. 986998462.
- Book: The presence of objets—Gaetano Pesce.. Pesce. Gaetano. Musée des arts décoratifs de Montréal. 1998. Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts. Montreal. English. 51537521.
- Pesce. Gaetano. Columbia University. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. Gaetano Pesce, the presence of objects. 1999. 642574824.
- News: Hiesinger, Curator. Kathryn. Gaetano Pesce's Design is Subject of 'Pushing the Limits' at Philadelphia Museum of Art: November 18 through April 9, 2006. Philadelphia Museum of Art. 21 October 2005.
- News: Gaetano Pesce: Il rumore del tempo. Triennale di Milano. 2005. 12 November 2015. 5 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160405142305/http://www.triennale.org/. live.
- Book: Il rumore del tempo: Gaetano Pesce. Pesce. Gaetano. Annicchiarico. Silvana. 2005. Charta. 978-8881585182. Milano. Italian. 930389246.
- Book: 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].
- Book: Gaetano Pesce. 2005. IVAM, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern : Generalitat Valenciana, Conselleria de Cultura, Educació. Valencia.
- News: Pink Pavilion di Gaetano Pesce. La Triennale di Milano. 2007. 12 November 2015. 5 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160405142305/http://www.triennale.org/. live.
- Book: Pink pavilion: Gaetano Pesce. Annicchiarico. Silvana. Pesce. Gaetano. 2008. Electa. 9788837059804. Milano. English. 890612055.
- News: GAETANO PESCE: PIECES FROM A LARGER PUZZLE. ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA LOS ANGELES. 2010.
- Hodge. Brooke. Seeing Things: Gaetano Pesce in L.A.. New York Times Magazine. 8 July 2010. 24 December 2015. 11 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151211055434/http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/. live.
- Web site: PADIGLIONE ITALIA NEL MONDO-VENICE BIENNALE 2011: Gaetano Pesce and Angelo Filomeno exhibition. IICNew York. Italian Cultural Institute in New York.
- News: Zandardi. Eva. Gaetano Pesce and Angelo Filomeno, An Exhibition On view at La Galleria, Italian Cultural Institute of New York. The Italian Cultural Institute of New York. 3 October 2011.
- Web site: Fred Torres Gallery. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151128044805/http://www.fredtorres.com/. 28 November 2015.
- Hanley. William. Exhibition: Gaetano Pesce: L'Abbraccio. Architectural Record. 29 March 2013. 24 December 2015. 9 October 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201009081847/https://www.architecturalrecord.com/. live.
- News: Perry. Amy. The Legendary Gaetano Pesce on Work and Life. The New York Times Style magazine. 8 May 2013. 24 December 2015. 11 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151211055434/http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/. live.
- News: Fondazione MAXXI. Gaetano Pesce. The time of diversity: 26 June 2014 – 5 October 2014. MAXXI: Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo.
- News: Manuelli. Sara. Design maverick Gaetano Pesce explores diversity in a retrospective at the Maxxi Museum, Rome. Wallpaper. 24 July 2014.
- News: Transforming Reality: Italian Design Innovation and Fantasy. Cafesjian Center for the Arts. 2014. 12 November 2015. 4 November 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151104073147/http://www.cmf.am/. live.
- News: Sotheby's: Gaetano Pesce. Domus. 2014. 12 November 2015. 3 April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130403011823/http://www.domusweb.it/. live.
- Web site: "Scraps and sketches from all over the world", drawings by Gaetano Pesce. bmiaa.com. 12 November 2015. 29 October 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201029073447/https://www.bmiaa.com/scraps-and-sketches-from-all-over-the-world-drawings-by-gaetano-pesce/. dead.
- News: Giovannini. Joseph. Gaetano Pesce: 'One of a Kind Iconic Works, 1967–2015. The New York Times. 16 April 2015. 28 August 2017. 21 July 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/. live.
- News: Gaetano Pesce: For Her. Reinstein Ross Gallery. 2015. 24 December 2015. 24 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151224110039/https://reinsteinross.com/. live.
- Web site: Performance nell'installazione "La Cucina. Luogo di passione" di Gaetano Pesce. triennale.org. 12 November 2015. 10 October 2022. 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. dead.
- News: "Scraps and sketches from all over the world", drawings by Gaetano Pesce. BMIAA. 30 April 2015. 12 November 2015. 23 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201123165058/https://www.bmiaa.com/. dead.
- News: Pesce. Gaetano. Fish Design – Hall 7 — Stand G175. Maison&Objet Paris 2015.
- Web site: Gaetano Pesce: Molds (Gelati Misti). The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. 29 May 2018. 18 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180518054749/https://www.moca.org/exhibition/gaetano-pesce-molds-gelati-misti. live.
- News: Gaetano Pesce's Show "Gelati Misti" Isn't About Ice Cream Architectural Digest. Architectural Digest. 29 May 2018. en. 18 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180518130054/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/gaetano-pesce-molds-exhibition-moca. live.
- News: Above the tree tops: Gaetano Pesce branches out at Design Miami. Magazine. Wallpaper*. 1 December 2016. Wallpaper*. 29 May 2018. 18 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180518055606/https://www.wallpaper.com/art/gaetano-pesce-tree-vases-sculpture-salon-94-design-miami. live.
- Book: Gaetano Pesce: architettura e fugurazione. Pesce. Gaetano. Mazzantini. Renata Cristina. Palazzo ducale (Museum : Mantua. Italy). 2017. Claudio Grenzi editore . 9788884316660. Italian. 989146259.
- Web site: Salon 94 Design. Salon 94 Design. en-US. 29 January 2020. 29 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200129225742/https://salon94design.com/workingallery-pesce/. dead.
- Web site: Gaetano Pesce: Age of Contaminations – Exhibitions – Friedman Benda. www.friedmanbenda.com. 29 January 2020. 29 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200129230150/http://www.friedmanbenda.com/exhibitions/past/gaetano-pesce-age-of-contaminations. live.
- Web site: Gaetano Pesce: Dear Future . 19 March 2023 . The Future Perfect . en-US . 19 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230319053542/https://www.thefutureperfect.com/exhibition/gaetano-pesce-dear-future/ . live .
- Web site: Carter . Lee . 6 March 2023 . '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 . 19 March 2023 . Artnet News . en-US . 19 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230319053539/https://news.artnet.com/art-world/gaetano-pesce-future-perfect-los-angeles-2264813 . live .
- Benyamin. Jasmine. Reviewed Work: Environments and Counter Environments. "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape," MoMA, 1972. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. September 2014. 73. 3. 436–437. 10.1525/jsah.2014.73.3.436. 10.1525/jsah.2014.73.3.436.
- News: Shaw. Elizabeth. Italy: The New American Landscape. 26. The Museum of Modern Art. 26 May 1972. 27 March 2007. 23 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110223165036/http://moma.org/. live.
- Web site: Architecture on Film. Italy – The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA, 1972 + Q&A with Gaetano Pesce and Peter Lang: Thurs 28 November 2013, 7pm. The Architecture Foundation.
- Book: Bartolucci. Marisa. Cabra. Raul. Gaetano Pesce: Compact Design Portfolio. 2003. Chronicle Books LLC. 9780811837880. 96.
- Book: 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.. 1981. MIT Committee on the Visual Arts. Cambridge, Mass.. English. 312646460.
- Web site: Histoire du CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU : Chronologies.
- Book: Masterworks: [exhibition] Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, 1991. Joseph. Peter T. Rybczynski. Witold. Danto. Arthur C. Peter Joseph Gallery. 1991. The Gallery. 978-0962884924. New York. English. 25495921.
- Book: Antonelli. Paola. Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design. 1995. Museum of Modern Art. New York. 978-0870701320.
- Book: Eidelberg, Ed.. Martin P.. Designed for delight: alternative aspects of twentieth-century decorative arts. 1997. Flammarion. 978-2080135957. 320.
- Dorigato, A.. Klein, D.. Mentasti, R.B.. International new glass 1998 : Venezia aperto vetro. Electa. Milan. 40471050.
- Book: Mod to Memphis: design in colour 1960s–80s. Watson. Anne. Powerhouse Museum. 2002. Powerhouse Pub.. Sydney. 9781863170949. English.
- Web site: Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Presents Second "National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now" Reviews Cutting-edge U.S. Design of Past Three Years. cdn.cooperhewitt.org. 5 December 2020. 9 October 2022. 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+. live.
- News: Muschamp . Herbert . 25 April 2003 . Design Review : The National Design Triennial, A Frontier Spirit in Anxious Times . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/ . 21 July 2018 . 28 August 2017 . The New York Times: Art & Design.
- News: Villarreal. Ignacio. The Brooks Presents US DESIGN, 1975–2000. Art Daily. 2004. 12 November 2015. 17 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170817080237/http://artdaily.com/. live.
- News: Johnson. Ken. Art Review: Elegance, Wit and Pop in a Quarter-Century of American Design. The New York Times: Art & Design. 8 August 2003. 28 August 2017. 21 July 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/. live.
- News: Hamilton. William L.. Trading Baskets For Plastics. The New York Times: Home & Garden. 19 June 2003. 28 August 2017. 21 July 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/. live.
- Web site: Formless Furniture. .museum-gestaltung.ch. 12 November 2015. 7 February 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160207005642/http://www.museum-gestaltung.ch/en/exhibitions/review/exhibitions-2009/formless-furniture/. live.
- News: Brake. Alan G.. Fitful Sleep Dreamland: Architectural Experiments Since the 1970s. The Architect's Newspaper. 3 September 2008. 12 November 2015. 24 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160124013725/http://www.archpaper.com/. live.
- News: Lasky. Julie. After the Boom, a Better Kind of Art. The New York Times. 12 December 2012. 28 August 2017. 21 July 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180721111302/https://www.nytimes.com/. live.
- News: Pop Art and Pop Art Design, the Nexus of What was Radical and New. Art Tatler. 29 June 2013. 24 December 2015. 29 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141029021451/http://arttattler.com/. live.
- Book: Tempting art edible gems. Galante. Maurizio. Lancman. Tal. Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. 2016. Mudam. 9782919923595. Luxembourg. 961320283.
- Web site: New Territories Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America November 4, 2014 to April 5, 2015. madmuseum.or. 12 November 2015. 19 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151219021759/http://www.madmuseum.org/exhibition/new-territories. live.
- News: VIII Triennale Design Museum; Kitchen Invaders. Tiennale di Milano. 9 April 2015. 12 November 2015. 5 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160405142305/http://www.triennale.org/. live.
- Web site: Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design. www.design-museum.de. en-EN. 29 January 2020. 29 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200129225908/https://www.design-museum.de/en/exhibitions/detailpages/objects-of-desire-surrealism-and-design.html. live.
- Book: Vanlaethem. France. Architecture, design, art. 1989. Rizzoli. New York. 978-0847810864. 1. publ. in the United States of America..
- Web site: Katsikopoulou . Myrto . 4 April 2024 . gaetano pesce, visionary italian architect and designer, passes away at 84 . 5 April 2024 . designboom architecture & design magazine . en.
- News: Addio a Gaetano Pesce . 4 April 2024 . Elle Decor . 4 April 2024 . 4 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240404071305/https://www.elledecor.com/it/people/a60390206/gaetano-pesce-morto/ . live .
- Web site: Our farewell to Gaetano Pesce Salone del Mobile . 5 April 2024 . www.salonemilano.it . en.
- News: Smith . Harrison . Gaetano Pesce, impish and influential designer, dies at 84 . 10 April 2024 . Washington Post . 8 April 2024.
- Raggi . Valentina . Gaetano Pesce, a Great Master of Italian Design, Dies at 84 . . 4 April 2024 . 10 April 2024.
- Web site: Infobae . Por Newsroom . 4 April 2024 . Muere el diseñador italiano Gaetano Pesce, creador de los icónicos sillones en poliuretano . 5 April 2024 . infobae . es-ES.
- http://www.chrysler.com/design/design_influences/design_awards/1993/ Chrysler design awards homepage
- News: Gaetano Pesce Biography. Artnet. 24 December 2015. 21 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110221135401/http://www.artnet.com/. live.
- Web site: Good Design Awards. https://web.archive.org/web/20140606233700/https://chi-athenaeum.org/archviescomingsoon.html. dead. 6 June 2014.
- http://www.uarts.edu/news/dsp_item.cfm?id=1074&item=pr Press release
- News: Interior Design Department 2009 Lawrence J. Israel Prize: Gaetano Pesce. The Fashion Institute of Technology. June 2009. 12 November 2015. 3 May 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210503140343/https://www.fitnyc.edu//. live.
- News: PADIGLIONE ITALIA NEL MONDO-VENICE BIENNALE 2011: October 03, 2011. Italian Cultural Institute of New York. 3 October 2011.
- News: Hodge . Brooke . Seeing Things Gaetano Pesce in L.A. . 10 April 2024 . T Magazine . 8 July 2010 . (archive.nytimes.com).
- Web site: Newman . Maria . Tables for the Ocean-Conscious . . 10 April 2024 . October 1, 2012.