Gaetano Pesce

Considered one of the most celebrated Italian and international designers, Gaetano Pesce was born in La Spezia on November 8, 1939. He studied architecture at the IUAV in Venice, a university where professors such as Carlo Scarpa and Ernesto Nathan Rogers, one of the founders of the BBPR studio, were also teaching. Pesce also attended the Institute of Industrial Design in the same city. Along with several students from the Venice campus, in 1959 he joined the EnnaA Group, founded in Padua. He also included Tino Bertoldo, Alberto Biasi, Tolo Custoza, Sara Ivanoff, Bruno Limena, Manfredo Massironi, Milla Muffato, and Gianfilippo Pecchini, but their collective experience was brief, as the group disbanded in 1960. Gaetano Pesce soon became one of the leading exponents of Radical Design, one of the most celebrated Italian stylistic movements that also found success abroad, and he divided his time between design and sculpture.