(Joe Cesare Colombo, ‘B-Line Colombo Modern Multi Chair’, 1969)












(Joe Cesare Colombo, ‘Green lounge chair’, 1963)





















(Joe Cesare Colombo, ‘ELDA CHAIR’, 1963)






















(Joe Cesare Colombo, ‘Tube chair’, 1969)

















(Joe Cesare Colombo, ‘Plywood Chair’, 1963 )





Joe Cesare Colombo (1930-1971) Designer, architect and artist. His influences included Movimento Nucleare, an avant garde art movement in which he experimented by painting abstracted images of fossilised organic forms and an atmosphere of Pop art. Latest production processes and newly developed plastics such as fibreglass, ABS, PVC and polyethylene inspired him to experiment and create items using these new mediums. Most of Colombo’s products show bold, folding, curvaceous forms, lack of sharp corners and straight lines that had ‘characterised his paintings and sculptures’. “His design innovations included one of the first one-piece injection-moulded plastic chairs and a complete kitchen on wheels.”