Objects My Dear Mountains Bag by Gaetano Pesce, Bottega Veneta

From 10,000 USD

This week at The Wick Culture, we are looking at the best of Milan Design week (15 to 21 April). Among the most hotly anticipated launches was a limited edition handbag collaboration between the pioneering Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce and Bottega Veneta. Pesce created two designs for the Milan-based luxury fashion house, and presented them in a ‘grotto’ installation crafted from resin and textiles. This bag ‘My Dear Mountains’ (an edition of fifteen) evokes Pesce’s watercolour paintings, an effect that was created by applying airbrush to the glossy, Intrecciato bag. The bag is inspired by the mountains near Este, northern Italy, where the 83-year-old Pesce grew up. “It’s an image that is optimistic when we have a reality that is not optimistic at all,” Pesce said.