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Gaetano Pesce
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Description
- Gaetano Pesce
- ''Pratt'' Chair
- stamped in the mold NEW YORK/1984
- molded urethane
Provenance
Christie's London, December 6, 2000, lot 61
Literature
Albrecht Bangert, Italienisches Möbeldesign--Klassiker von 1945 bis 1985, Munich, 1985, p. 92 (for another chair in the series)
France Vanlaethem, Gaetano Pesce: Architecture Design Art, London, 1989, pp. 83-84 (for examples from the series and drawings)
Museu do Design: Luxo, Pop & Cool, Lisbon, 1999, no. 177 (for another chair in the series)
France Vanlaethem, Gaetano Pesce: Architecture Design Art, London, 1989, pp. 83-84 (for examples from the series and drawings)
Museu do Design: Luxo, Pop & Cool, Lisbon, 1999, no. 177 (for another chair in the series)
Catalogue Note
In 1983, the Pratt Institute, New York, financed Pesce to explore the design possibilities of urethane. The result was a series of nine chairs of varying density, ranging from the first chair in the series which cannot support itself to the ninth chair which is the most rigid.