Gaetano Pesce

Gaetano Pesce was born in La Spezia in 1939 and studied architecture and industrial design in Venice, and in 1959 he co-founded Gruppo N in Padua, devoted to programmed art. A pioneer of resin and polyurethane, he took part in MoMA’s Italy: The New Domestic Landscape in 1972, moved to New York in 1983 and designed the Organic Building in Osaka. He died in New York in 2024.

For C&B Italia, now B&B Italia, he designed the Up series in 1969, vacuum-packed seats that swell into shape when unwrapped, and in 2022 Serie Up won a Compasso d’Oro career award.