{"id":75897,"date":"2023-12-15T12:19:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/icon-of-radical-style-gaetano-pesce-creates-shadow-for-meritalia\/"},"modified":"2024-01-17T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T07:45:08","slug":"icon-style-gaetano-pesce-shadow-meritalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/en\/icon-style-gaetano-pesce-shadow-meritalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Icon of Radical Style: Gaetano Pesce Creates Shadow for Meritalia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To be radical means to reject all predestination, to choose unruliness and to mock norms and tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this revolutionist project,&nbsp;<strong>the non-coherence of processes<\/strong>&nbsp;is reflected in the non-coherence of forms, in the unexpected inspiration, in the independence of volumes unbound by any preconceptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Shadow armchair-literally shadow-does exactly that &#8211; it emancipates itself from the need for predefined structures, grows in a radically unregulated way, and&nbsp;<strong>settles in relation only to the body that interacts with it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Shadow armchair one of Pesce&#8217;s most significant works for Meritalia<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The name, chosen by designer&nbsp;<strong>Gaetano Pesce<\/strong>&nbsp;for this creation for Meritalia, refers to the shadow cast by a body and imprinted on the armchair. 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A becoming intrinsic to the manufacturing technology perfected by Meritalia: the chair is formed through the injection of a polyurethane foam into the upholstery, which expands and solidifies in an unpredictable manner.&nbsp;<strong>The process, mostly by hand, ensures that each Shadow is <a href=\"https:\/\/cucineditalia.com\/en\/the-rock-your-home-collection-by-busnelli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">different from the others<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/strong>and the details underscore its uniqueness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To sit on the Shadow is to allow oneself to be enveloped by a form and at the same time imprint that of one&#8217;s own body &#8211; an armchair that has memory, able to keep track of the experience of using it. Imprinting a body that becomes a&nbsp;<strong>declaration of identity<\/strong>&nbsp;is furnishing a space with Shadow means appropriating it, casting one&#8217;s own shadow and fixing it on an everyday and extraordinary object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meritalia.it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meritalia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be radical means to reject all predestination, to choose unruliness and to mock norms and tradition. For this revolutionist project,&nbsp;the non-coherence of processes&nbsp;is reflected in the non-coherence of forms, in the unexpected inspiration, in the independence of volumes unbound by any preconceptions. 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