Pulp Galerie in Paris is exhibiting rare furniture and elements from Gaetano Pesce’s experimental 1990s office design for the Chiat/Day advertising agency in New York. The show reconstructs fragments of the innovative workspace, which emphasized flexibility and movement. It runs from March 26 to May 30, 2026, in the gallery’s new space in the 6th arrondissement.
In 1994, Jay Chiat commissioned Italian designer Gaetano Pesce to create offices for the Chiat/Day advertising agency on the 38th floor of a tower in New York’s Financial District. Pesce’s design transformed the space into a flexible environment without fixed desks or partitions, resembling a small city with interconnected meeting areas and work zones. This approach aligned with the early digital era’s shift toward adaptive work practices, allowing employees to move between locations as needed.
The original interior, featuring translucent resin elements with swirling pigments and irregular surfaces, was dismantled in the late 1990s. Pulp Galerie’s exhibition, titled Gaetano Pesce, The CHIAT/DAY New York Project, brings back surviving pieces such as locker doors with uneven perforations, the Waffle Table with its circular resin top and contrasting legs, Broadway chairs, desks showing embedded metal grids, and the Highway door depicting a miniature roadway with toy cars.
These objects highlight Pesce’s integration of furniture and architecture, using resin to create expressive, varied forms that blurred boundaries between functional items and spatial elements. The display reconstructs a portion of the lost office, with pieces bearing marks from their prior use in a dynamic creative setting. Located in Paris, France, the exhibition offers a tangible connection to this influential workplace experiment.