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Gaetano Pesce by B&B Italia
4 resultsCollection: Gaetano Pesce
Brand: B&B Italia
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Designed in 1969, right from the onset the Up series – of which Serie Up 2000 is an evolution – has been one of the most outstanding expressions of design with its expressive shapes upholstered with elastic fabric. This innovative solution, designed as a fragment of contemporary art to be offered to a wide audience, stems from B&B Italia’s extensive technological know-how in terms of polyurethane injection moulding. The series consists of seven pieces, including the sofa upholstered in a variety of colours.
Collection: Gaetano Pesce
Brand: B&B Italia
Specifications:
Designed in 1969, right from the onset the Up series has been one of the most outstanding expressions of design with its expressive shapes upholstered with elastic fabric. This innovative solution, poised midway between design and art, and conceived to be offered to a wide audience, stems from B&B Italia’s extensive technological know-how in terms of polyurethane injection moulding. Particularly noteworthy among the armchairs is the iconic UP5_6, with its unmistakeable anthropomorphic references: a metaphor of a large womb, it calls to mind ancient statues of the goddesses of fertility. But that’s not all: a spherical ottoman tied to the armchair contrasts the image of comfort and convenience with a more figurative one of a woman with a ball and chain tied to her foot. Gaetano Pesce described the project as follows: “At that time, I was seeking to tell a personal story about my concept of women: I believe that women have always unwittingly been their own jailer. This is why I decided to give this armchair the shape of a woman with a ball and chain, reflecting the traditional image of a prisoner”. This armchair also comes in a junior version for kids aged 3 and up – a perfectly faithful replica of the original design, only smaller. The series also includes the UP7 “foot”, a large sculptural object in painted polyurethane that poses as an archaeological relic of the modern era.
Collection: Gaetano Pesce
Brand: B&B Italia
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To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Up series, designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1969, the iconic chair with ottoman UP5_6 wears a special dress: a beige/petrol green striped fabric based on the original colour palette.
Collection: Gaetano Pesce
Brand: B&B Italia
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The history of design in miniature: UP Junior is a version for kids aged 3 and up of the UP5_6 armchair, an indisputable international icon of Italian design. UP Junior is a perfectly faithful replica of the original design, only smaller. Comfortable and playful, this designer seat features attractive shapes and lively textile covers in red and yellow, to furnish and enhance kids’ areas and small city apartments.
Gaetano Pesce, architect, artist and designer, in forty years of career has carried out public and private projects in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia in the fields of architecture, urban planning, interior design, industrial and exhibition design, driven by a constant tension towards innovation and experimentation. Born in La Spezia in 1939, Pesce studied architecture at the University of Venice and wrote a manifesto in his youth in defense of the right to inconsistency in art, the need to change, to be free, not to repeat ourselves. The boundaries between art, design and industry become irrelevant in his production, because even art is a product, it is the creative response to the needs of the time in which we live.