The tables from the Broadway series, made in 1993, are a perfect example of functional artworks. The Broadway tables are a true fireworks of colors, perched on spring-based legs. The rigidity of the resin coupled with the metal structure of the series guarantees the functionality of these pieces.
In 1994, Gaetano Pesce designed large tables for the offices of Chiat\Day TBWA in New York. Inspired by Jay Chiat, this project aimed to create the first open office in history –workspaces with no assigned seating for employees. Always driven by the same artistic fervor, Gaetano Pesce imagined huge conference tables as well as exclusive tables for the cafeteria.
Pesce’s Tables
An essential exercise for designers, the table is an object that perpetually fascinates. As a free spirit, Gaetano Pesce imagined it in a thousand different ways.
Between 1972 and 1973, Gaetano Pesce was commissioned to create the Golgotha series to dress the theater play of the same name. He then designed a bloody table made of expanded glass bricks, measuring 4 meters long.
In 1980, Gaetano Pesce envisioned letting the workers at Cassina create the drawings themselves that would compose the tables in the Sansone series. He admitted having encountered difficulties encouraging the workers to express themselves freely. Indeed, the relentless repetitive gestures they experienced complicated the project. Yet, each table retains the imprint of its maker. The experience was so appreciated that the workers at Cassina eventually turned it into an internal competition.
The tables from the Broadway series, made in 1993, are a perfect example of functional artworks. The Broadway tables are a true fireworks of colors, perched on spring-based legs. The rigidity of the resin coupled with the metal structure of the series guarantees the functionality of these pieces.
In 1994, Gaetano Pesce designed large tables for the offices of Chiat\Day TBWA in New York. Inspired by Jay Chiat, this project aimed to create the first open office in history –workspaces with no assigned seating for employees. Always driven by the same artistic fervor, Gaetano Pesce imagined huge conference tables as well as exclusive tables for the cafeteria.
In his Nobody’s Perfect series, from 2002 to 2009, Gaetano Pesce proposed reinterpreting the use of furniture: the structure no longer needs to be rigid! It can be flexible, transparent, malleable; its use is subverted. This series questions and attracts the user, as the colors are captivating. Following the artist’s design, artisans melt, color, and freely pour the resin from which these pieces are made. Gaetano Pesce offers a dismountable table and allows the user to position the legs as they wish, held in place by an impressive black grid.
In 2012, Gaetano Pesce created the Waterscape series. These tables attempt to recreate a view of the seas and oceans from the sky. They feature incredible patches of color ranging from deep blue to greenish gray, images of water and light. Gaetano Pesce thus highlights the waterways that accompany our lives.
