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+ New York, USA
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85/1826 Sofa, 'Sunset in New York', synthetic materials / wood, designed by Gaetano Pesce, made by Cassina, Italy, 1980
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Object statement
Sofa, 'Sunset in New York', synthetic materials / wood, designed by Gaetano Pesce, made by Cassina, Italy, 1980
Production Notes include information about the design, manufacture and marketing of an object. Production notes
Designed by Gaetano Pesce, Italy, 1980

Manufactured by Cassina SpA, Italy, 1980

Designed by Gaetano Pesce for Cassina SpA, Italy, 1980

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Description
Sofa, 'Sunset in New York', synthetic materials / wood, designed by Gaetano Pesce, made by Cassina, Italy, 1980.

Three seater sofa, 'Sunset in New York', with a plywood frame, covered in polyurethane foam, dacron padded and fully upholstered in fabric. The sofa is constructed in four sections with the shapes and fabrics representing the sun setting over the New York skyline. The central backrest is semi-circular shaped, padded and upholstered in red fabric representing the sun rising. The seat of the sofa consists of three sections of varying sized blocks. The seat sections are padded with foam and covered in two different fabrics, cream with blue squares and grey with blue squares, woven to represent the windows of high rise buildings. The central seat has two armrests and the other seat sections consist of a seat and backrest. All sections are mounted onplastic slide bases and each section is loosely joined by tubular steel brackets on the underside.
Made: Pesce, Gaetano; Italy; 1980

: Cassina SpA; Italy
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The Registration Number of an object is a unique identifying number applied by the museum at the point of acquisition. Current numbering format comprises the year of acquisition, followed by a sequential number. For example, '2007/45' is the Registration Number that represents the 45th acquisition in the year 2007. Registration number
85/1826
Production date
1980
Height
1200 mm
Width
2400 mm
Depth
1100 mm

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Acquisition credit line
Gift of Cassina, 1985

This object record is currently incomplete. The information available may date back as far as 125 years. Other information may exist in a non-digital form. The Museum continues to update and add new research to collection records.
Subjects
+ Furniture design
+ Pesce, Gaetano
+ Cassina SpA
+ New York, USA
+ Sunsets
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