Joe Colombo Designs
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Steel
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal, Enamel, Chrome
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Coat Racks and Stands
Plastic
20th Century Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps
Metal
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1970s Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Metal, Steel
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Ceramic
Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Carts and Bar Carts
Plastic
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Glass, Blown Glass
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Glass, Blown Glass
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Chrome
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Metal, Chrome
Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1960s Italian Space Age Armchairs
Leather, Fiberglass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Armchairs
Leather, Fiberglass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Armchairs
Leather, Fiberglass
Vintage 1960s Italian Space Age Armchairs
Leather, Fiberglass
21st Century and Contemporary Armchairs
Leather, Fiberglass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Fiberglass, Leather
Vintage 1970s Italian Lounge Chairs
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Steel
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Wood, Plexiglass
Vintage 1960s Italian Armchairs
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1970s Italian Modern Cabinets
Plastic
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Plastic
2010s Italian Space Age Lounge Chairs
Leather, Fiberglass
Mid-20th Century Italian Lounge Chairs
Leather, Fiberglass
Vintage 1960s Italian Lounge Chairs
Leather, Fiberglass
2010s Italian Space Age Armchairs
Leather, Fiberglass
2010s Italian Space Age Armchairs
Leather, Fiberglass
2010s Italian Space Age Armchairs
Leather, Fiberglass
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Steel
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chaise Longues
Leather, Resin, Paint, Rubber
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chaise Longues
Leather, Resin, Paint, Rubber
Vintage 1970s Italian Stools
Metal
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Fiberglass, Leather
Vintage 1960s Italian Lounge Chairs
PVC
2010s Italian Space Age Lounge Chairs
Leather, Fiberglass
Vintage 1960s Italian Floor Lamps
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Acrylic
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
2010s Italian Space Age Swivel Chairs
Leather, Fiberglass
2010s Italian Space Age Lounge Chairs
Leather, Fiberglass
2010s Italian Space Age Lounge Chairs
Leather, Fiberglass
Vintage 1960s Italian Table Lamps
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Objects
Walnut
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Antique 1670s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Aluminum
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Leather
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Plastic
Vintage 1960s Italian Space Age Table Lamps
Plastic
Vintage 1960s European Lounge Chairs
Steel
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
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Joe Colombo Designs For Sale on 1stDibs
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Joe Colombo for sale on 1stDibs
He died tragically young, and his career as a designer lasted little more than 10 years. But through the 1960s, Joe Colombo proved himself one of the field’s most provocative and original thinkers, and he produced a remarkably large array of innovative chairs, table lamps and other lighting and furniture as well as product designs. Even today, the creations of Joe Colombo have the power to surprise.
Cesare “Joe” Colombo was born in Milan, the son of an electrical-components manufacturer. He was a creative child — he loved to build huge structures from Meccano pieces — and in college he studied painting and sculpture before switching to architecture.
In the early 1950s, Colombo made and exhibited paintings and sculptures as part of an art movement that responded to the new Nuclear Age, and futuristic thinking would inform his entire career. He took up design not long after his father fell ill in 1958, and he and his brother, Gianni, were called upon to run the family company.
Colombo expanded the business to include the making of plastics — a primary material in almost all his later designs. One of his first, made in collaboration with his brother, was the Acrilica table lamp (1962), composed of a wave-shaped piece of clear acrylic resin that diffused light cast by a bulb concealed in the lamp’s metal base. A year later, Colombo produced his best-known furniture design, the Elda armchair (1963): a modernist wingback chair with a womb-like plastic frame upholstered in thick leather pads.
Portability and adaptability were keynotes of many Colombo designs, made for a more mobile society in which people would take their living environments with them. One of his most striking pieces is the Tube chair (1969). It comprises four foam-padded plastic cylinders that fit inside one another. The components, which are held together by metal clips, can be configured in a variety of seating shapes (his Additional Living System seating is similarly versatile).
Vintage Tube chairs generally sell for about $9,000 in good condition; Elda chairs for about $7,000. A small Colombo design such as the plastic Boby trolley — an office organizer on wheels, designed in 1970 — is priced in the range of $700.
As Colombo intended, his designs are best suited to a modern decor. If your tastes run to sleek, glossy Space Age looks, the work of Joe Colombo offers you a myriad of choices.
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