FIT Awards Gaetano Pesce
Pesce has designed furniture for the likes of Cassina, B&B Italia, Steelcase, and Vitra.
Mairi Beautyman -- Interior Design, 2/24/2009 12:00:00 AM
Italian architect, designer, artist, filmmaker, urban planner, teacher, and Interior Design Hall of Fame inductee Gaetano Pesce is the winner of the 2009 Lawrence Israel Prize, bestowed by the interior design department at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology. Honoring the "best and the brightest" the annual awards program has also singled out the likes of Hall of Famers Jamie Drake (2006), Adam Tihany (2005), and Clodagh (2001).
Pesce has designed iconic pieces that often take a political or cultural stance for furniture manufacturers including Cassina, B&B Italia, Steelcase, and Vitra. He is particularly noted for his pioneering incorporation of resin and urethane. Pesce's architecture projects include his own residence in Bahia, Brazil, the Organic Building of Osaka, the Children’s House for Parc de la Villette, the Gallery Mourmons in Belgium, and the office for the New York advertising of company Chait\Day.
On Tuesday, April 14 at 6 p.m., Pesce will present the Lawrence J. Israel Prize lecture in the Great Hall of the Fashion Institute of Technology. The event is free and open to the public.
Photos courtesy of Pesce Ltd.
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