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gaetano pesce Pratt chair, rare collectible design presented by sweeterfat

GAETANO PESCE PRATT CHAIR


The Pratt Chair is potentially the most important work in Gaetano Pesce’s career and a landmark in experimental twentieth-century design. Created in 1984 during Pesce’s residency at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, the Pratt Chair explored how slight changes in resin density could alter an object’s structure, stability, and function. Using the same mold repeatedly while changing only the chemical composition of the resin, Pesce produced a piece that shapeshifted between art and design, challenging the very notion that the two are independent. Today, the Pratt Chair is widely regarded as one of the defining expressions of Pesce’s philosophy of diversity and originality. Examples held in major museum and institutional collections. 

color: multicolor
materials: resin
origin: New York City

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Gaetano Pesce Pratt chair, closeup of the resin symbols underneath the chair


gaetano pesce's Pratt chair featured in the "Return to Office" exhibition by Sweeterfat, December 2025 at WSA NYC Gaetano Pesce Pratt chair, symbol of two lovers embracing in the resin Gaetano Pesce Pratt chair, resin pressing of Gaetano's hand as a form of a signature included on the mold of each chair The symbol of good luck and prosperity in the resin of the Gaetano Pesce's Pratt chair

Gaetano Pesce Pratt chair, closeup of the New York 1984 resin stamping
Gaetano Pesce Pratt chair, closeup of the small hand symbol Gaetano Pesce Pratt chair, closeup of the Pythagorean theorem symbol, meant to show that an understanding od the maths and sciences is needed to create this chair Gaetano Pesce's Pratt chair, the face smiling back in the resin Gaetano Pesce Pratt Chair presented by Sweeterfat offered for rent
Gaetano Pesce Pratt Chair in the Sweeterfat Exhibition

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