With the Nobody's Perfect collection, Pesce came to terms with what he sees as the key contradiction undermining the concept of industrial design and therefore the impossibility for serial production. Each piece in this line of furniture is evidently different from the other, having been cast in molds by hand without uniform colors nor dimensions. The person who physically produces the piece becomes part of the design process, signing a "birth" certificate that is issued with each piece. As such, a finished piece reveals the shortcomings of its maker as proof that nobody's perfect, meaning also that design stands for our true uniqueness.

Born in 1939 in La Spezia, Italy, Gaetano Pesce graduated with a degree in architecture from the University of Venice in 1965. His multidisciplinary practice encompasses architecture, urban planning, interior design, and industrial design.  Contemporaneous to the investigations of the Italian Arte Povera movement, Pesce’s radical experimentation with industrial and everyday materials such as polyurethanes and poured resins broke the mold of standardization. Pesce has taught at several institutions including Cooper Union in New York and the Institut d'Architecture et d'Etudes Urbaines in Strasbourg. His work is included in the permanent collections of museums worldwide such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Pesce currently lives and works in New York.

Courtesy of the artist and  Nilufar, Milan