Gaetano Pesce is coming to Baku

 /By Azernews/

 By Laman Ismayilova

One of the leading figures in contemporary industrial design, Gaetano Pesce, is coming to Baku, Azerbaijan!

A fascinating event with participation of the Italian designer is scheduled for June,9 at Fairmont Baku Hotel, Trend Life reported. The program will feature master classes in a very pleasant atmosphere. The event begins at 18:00.

During his career, that spans four decades with commissions in architecture, urban planning, interior, exhibition and industrial design, Gaetano Pesce, has conceived public and private projects in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

In all his work, he expresses his guiding principle: that modernism is less a style than a method for interpreting the present and hinting at the future in which individuality is preserved and celebrated.

Pesce’s work is featured in over 30 permanent collections of the most important museums in the world, such as MoMa of New York and San Francisco, Metropolitan Museum in New York, Vitra Museum in Germany, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Pompidou Center and Musee des Arts Décoratifs of Louvre in Paris; he exhibits art in galleries world wide.

His award winning designs include the prestigious Chrysler Award for Innovation and Design in 1993, the Architektur and Wohnen Designer of the Year in 2006 and the Lawrence J. Israel Prize from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York in 2009.