Design as a story. The object as a metaphor, a means of expression, far removed from rigid serialisation. This is the vision of Gaetano Pesce who, after ‘Tramonto a New York’, designed for Cassina in the 1980’s and among the designer’s most beloved projects, returns to his adopted city as if just a few hours had passed by.

Pesce presents us with a new fragment, ‘Notturno a New York’ – Night time in New York, a sofa-skyline enveloped by a starry sky. A serene moonlit night, perhaps during a sultry summer, that illuminates the skyscrapers of a metropolis that hasn’t yet fallen asleep. Together with Gaetano Pesce, Cassina returns to its past, revisiting one of the icons of its archives and continues along the path of design based on research, on formal and technological experimentation.

Because every project in the history of Cassina is a vibrant, dynamic idea that already contains the stimuli for its evolution. Notturno a New York unites evocative and emotional force with precise structural functionality.