543 BROADWAY 9-legged chair

The chairs and table from Gaetano Pesce's 543 Broadway series are the perfect example of the great designer's tendency to create designs that can be produced in series, yet are absolutely unique.

Meritalia®'s diverse catalog also includes limited–edition chairs and tables, already firmly established in the collective imagination and exhibited in major museums around the world, from MoMA in New York to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Their uniqueness and unusual shape have made history, but there's much more.

Meritalia® is once again collaborating with Gaetano Pesce's own workshop to learn and reproduce his special resin processing techniques. The Broadway chair rests on four or nine legs, components of a thin, essential metal frame. The feet are large springs: Pesce's playfulness allows the sitter to rock back and forth, left and right. The seat and backrest are focal points that reveal once again the modernity of Meritalia®'s production processes: a brilliant epoxy resin is injected into a mold, allowing the colors to mix spontaneously, creating ever–changing effects and making the result unique. Once catalyzed, this extraordinary material is assembled onto the metal frame, which remains visible thanks to the transparency of the resin itself.

Just like in a show, everything is revealed to the eyes of those who know how to look; a "prop" that can be displayed perpetually at home or any other space. Despite having an extraordinarily artistic and almost performative component, the Broadway table and chairs assert their function of conviviality and everyday practicality—always under a radical lens.

Gaetano Pesce's multifaceted and polyhedral personality motivates his fame as a designer, artist, and architect. Through his work, Pesce has profoundly impacted the landscape of contemporary design, navigating a diverse career that spans architecture, art, furniture design, and sculptural works. "My career is not monolithic, but fragmented," this is how Pesce defined his journey, which began in the late 1950s and continued until 2024. Far from being linear, his path has been marked by bold eclecticism, leading him to engage with various design disciplines while demonstrating a penchant for experimentation and playfulness. Pesce challenged both aesthetic and functional conventions, creating objects with the immediate power to become unforgettable.

Since the early 1960s, Pesce has played a pivotal role within the radical design movement, characterised by an iconoclastic vision, aimed at breaking with the conventions of positivist modernism and exploring new creative possibilities. Through relentless innovation, artistic exploration and profoundly radical intellectual dynamism, Pesce emerged as a beacon of change, reshaping the landscape of contemporary design.

L 50, P 39, H 75 cm; 12 Kg