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Gaetano Pesce

Set of seven wall lights, from Il Cestello restaurant, Florence, Italy

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000
$25,000
Lot Details
Resin-coated fabric, stainless steel, steel.
circa 2003
220 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 8 in. (560.1 x 80 x 20.3 cm)
Catalogue Essay
In 2003, Italian designer Gaetano Pesce designed the interiors of Il Cestello, a restaurant in Florence, Italy. Like pieces of drying laundry, the present wall lights hung from a metal bar along the walls of the restaurant. Pesce created the lights by coating pieces of fabric—from a negligee to a pair of baseball knickerbockers to a t-shirt—with resin and then backlighting them. Though the lights were arranged in a row, each piece of clothing is a discrete light, and they can be arranged in various compositions. Like much of Pesce’s work, there is a playfulness to the wall light’s design as well as a completely unexpected and novel use of materials and forms.

Gaetano Pesce

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