Gaetano Pesce (born 1939 in La Spezia, Italy; died 2024 in New York, USA) studied architecture at the Università IUAV in Venice. Since the early 1960s, he pursued an interdisciplinary approach that brought together design, art and architecture, challenging conventional categories. Pesce is regarded as a key representative of a pluralistic understanding of design, placing individuality, imperfection and social issues at its centre.

For Vitra, he designed, among other pieces, the Greene Street Chair. His works are represented in renowned international collections, including the Vitra Design Museum, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Centre Pompidou.