Designer, architect and sculptor Gaetano Pesce was born in 1939 in La Spezia, Italy. Using resin as a medium, his stunning designs embellish the home and table and have been part of the Fish Design Gaetano Pesce collection since the 1990s.
His visionary resin products are all handcrafted and unique in their own way, making them more pieces of art than design. The collection includes placemats, bowls, vases, mirrors and more, all made from colorful, flexible resin.
Philosophy of design of Gaetano Pesce
Gaetano Pesce is both an artist and designer, a craftsman and an alchemist, and is commonly referred to as a proponent of “emotional design”. In the 1960s, he held that furniture should perform not only a utilitarian function, but also improve a person’s life and mood.
“When people come into contact with furnishings, they change,” he holds. Another concept he champions is that of “elastic architecture”, or the concept of transformable spaces. “Hardness is a relic of the past. In the future, the wall of houses will be able to change shape and position and will be soft to the touch”.
Among his plethora of designs are fiberglass chairs and resin chairs and vases. “If my vases fall from a skyscraper, they won’t break, but will simply jump onto the pavement”.
Fish Design for Corsi Design
In 2003 Gaetano met Andrea Corsi, who entrusted him with creating a new collection, which led to the Corsi Design brand. Gaetano created the Fish Design collection In 2007, Fish Design became part of a larger Corsi Design Factory project, with collaborations with other famous artists and craftspeople including Alessandro Mendini, Humberto and Fernando Campana, and Enzo Mari.
Following Gaetano Pesce and Andrea Corsi’s meeting, the Corsi Design brand was founded in 2003. Gaetano Pesce created the Fish Design collection of resin vases for Corsi Design. Fish Design unites artisan culture with innovative materials, and the brand collaborates with famous Italian designers.
All resin creations from the Fish Design collection are handmade in Italy. Using resin as if it were clay, Fish Design artisans shape this incredible material using the noble techniques of sculptors. Both magical and extraordinary, the designs are crafted using various molds and pigments, and are shaped using mixtures of resins, castings, extrusions and confident strokes of spatulas.
