For a fat, liberating dose of inspiration, check out the long riff on Mondoblogo of chairs Italian Designer Gaetano Pesce painted in the nineties for his kids.
His “Open Sky” chairs are out-there, fun, wild, loose, and awesomely beautiful…
We’re adding them to our “buy plain wood or fabric furniture and paint it ourselves” folder (see below)…
Related posts: Drawing on furniture (like saul steinberg)
copy this: paint a pillow…sofa…bedspread…curtain…
copy this: partially painted chairs
d-i-y “masked” painted tables
blank-canvas furniture
I designed this chair with Mr Pesce and most of the Open Sky collection. I was there when Gaetano Pesce poured the resin, he actually made this one as a gift in 1999. His objects are like people, they have a skin they are flexible, not perfect and react to their environment.
“His objects are like people, they have a skin they are flexible, not perfect and react to their environment.” Beautiful. How lucky you are to have worked with him.