GAETANO PESCE: COME STAI? with a conversation between Pesce and Hans Ulrich Obrist and texts by Matthieu Blazy and Maria Cristina Didero, photographs by Stephen Shore and Sander Muylaert

When new Creative Director Blazy invited pioneering designer Pesce to create the space for Bottega Veneta's Summer '23 show in Milan, it was the beginning of a rich design collaboration. At the heart of the project was the Come Stai? chair, a new expression in Pesce's oeuvre, which echoed his lifelong quest for individuality and diversity. With an insightful interview between Pesce and Hans Ulrich Obrist, this limited-edition artist's book explores the ideation, approach, and process of the collaboration, uncovering many connections between Pesce and Blazy's creative practices and values.
Contributions from Blazy and Maria Cristina Didero document the project's origins and place in Pesce's wider oeuvre, while a vivid layer of photographs by Stephen Shore and Sander Muylaert illustrate the chair's development and production. The volume carries over the Come Stai? design with an atypical profile informed by the chair shape, and cover inspired by its resin and canvas materials. Just like Come Stai?, each book cover is unique.