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Joe Colombo

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Italy 1930 - 1971

Future oriented, prolific designer Joe Colombo produced a series of innovations during his short but intensive career. Colombo is one of Italy´s most influential product designers and leaves the world with a range of memorable design icons from the 1960´s. In 1962, Colombo opened his own design studio in Milan where he worked on architectural commissions and experimented with newly developed plastics such as fibreglass, ABS and PVC. These materials suited well his love for bold, folding, curvac... Read more

Future oriented, prolific designer Joe Colombo produced a series of innovations during his short but intensive career. Colombo is one of Italy´s most influential product designers and leaves the world with a range of memorable design icons from the 1960´s. In 1962, Colombo opened his own design studio in Milan where he worked on architectural commissions and experimented with newly developed plastics such as fibreglass, ABS and PVC. These materials suited well his love for bold, folding, curvaceous forms (and hatred of sharp corners and straight lines). In 1963 he designed the "Elda" armchair, the first to be made from fibre glass in such a large size. In 1965 followed the "Universale". Obsessed by making a chair from a single material, Colombo had begun with aluminium, then ABS and finally polypropylene. Colombo worked for several well-known manufacturers including Bayer, Bernini, Kartell, Stilnovo, O-Luce, Comfort, Italora.

• Elda by Joe Colombo

• 4801 by Joe Colombo

• Brillio by Joe Colombo

• Model 4860 by Joe Colombo

• LEM chair by Joe Colombo

• Tube Chair by Joe Colombo

• Model 300 by Joe Colombo

• Nastro by Joe Colombo

• Smoke by Joe Colombo

• Glasses by Joe Colombo

• KD27 by Joe Colombo

• Spider by Joe Colombo

• Coupe by Joe Colombo

• Topo by Joe Colombo

• Flash by Joe Colombo

• Flash by Joe Colombo

• Topo by Joe Colombo

• Acrilia 281 by Joe Colombo

• Alogena by Joe Colombo

• Table lamp by Joe Colombo

• "Vademecum" by Joe Colombo

• Fresnel by Joe Colombo

• Spring by Joe Colombo

• "Horus" pendant by Joe Colombo

• "Tiedro" Floor Lamp by Joe Colombo

• 'KD-8' table light by Joe Colombo

• 'Boby' by Joe Colombo

• 'System Programmable T14 live' lockers by Joe Colombo

• Hall stand by Joe Colombo

• Poker table by Joe Colombo

• Spider floor lamp by Joe Colombo

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