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How Bellini, Pesce and Scarpa Led the Italian Sofa Revolution

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Featured Image | Gaetano Pesce pictured with the Tramonto a New York sofa, designed by Pesce in 1980 and reissued by Cassina, 2022. Photograph by Daniel Terna, New York City, January 10, 2023.
In the late 1960s, Italian designers quietly set the stage for a radical transformation of the living room. Postwar Italy’s newfound optimism and industrial innovation were fueling bold experiments in furniture, and nowhere was this more evident than in the realm of the sofa. Modernists of an earlier generation had once dismissed the sofa as ...
 
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