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'Combi center' by Joe Colombo for Bernini, 1963
By Joe Colombo
Located in Brussels, BE
'Combi center' by Joe Colombo for Bernini, 1963
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Shelves
Materials
Wood
Combi Center, Joe Colombo's storage unit for Bernini 1963/1997.
By Joe Colombo
Located in Misinto, IT
Combi Center is a well-known industrial design product born from the creative genius of Joe Colombo, an Italian designer famous for his innovative design ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Cabinets
Materials
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Joe Colombo Combi Center mobile wood bookcase for Bernini Italian Design 1964
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Located in Milan, IT
This mobile bookcase with a light level and opening compartments is a design classic, started as a storage unit for hobbies by Joe Colombo, it was quickly converted to a lighted mobile bookcase. The very first examples of Combi Center...
Category
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Materials
Aluminum
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Born in Milan in 1930, designer Cesare Colombo—who went by Joe—was the second of three brothers. His father, Giuseppe, was an industrialist who inherited a ribbon factory and turned it into an electrical conductor manufacturer. Colombo came to design relatively late, having spent most of his twenties pursuing painting and sculpture. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Brera, Milan, in the early 1950s. While there, he joined the Movimento Nucleare, an avant-garde art movement founded by Enrico Baj and Sergio Dangelo in 1951. Spurred on by international anxiety surrounding the nuclear bomb, this group of painters aimed to break free of the static boundaries of traditional painting.
In 1953, Colombo made his first foray into design by creating a decorative ceiling for a Milan jazz club. In 1954, he made a series of television shrines for the Milan Trienniale. Inspired by these experiences, Colombo enrolled as an architecture student at Milan Polytechnic. When his father became ill in 1958, Colombo abandoned painting altogether; he and his younger brother, Gianni, took over the family business, using the factory as an experimental space for the latest production techniques and materials, including fiberglass, PVC, and polyethylene.
In 1962, Colombo opened a design studio in Milan, from which he worked primarily on architectural commissions—including several ski lodges and mountain hotels—as well as product design. His furniture designs were characterized by optimistically bold, round forms, and he championed the notion of using modern technologies to create new design solutions.
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Rare and stunning illuminated rosewood and acrylic (plexiglass) coffee table by visionary Italian designer Joe Colombo. The table is signed to the underside of the base with the original 'Bernini' manufacturer's label.
Colombo designed this illuminated coffee table in 1963 for 'Bernini' Italy and it formed part of his famous 'Combi' modular range of elements that could be ordered separately or in combinations of storage elements which stacked one atop another to form a multi purpose sculptural form column.
This fine example is finished in luxurious flamed rosewood which was the rare high end option over the cheaper standard Italian walnut finish. Sandwiched between the two circular rosewood elements is a white acrylic plexiglass light diffuser which when illuminated from the inside creates a wonderful cozy low level lighting effect with a wonderfully warm tone.
The circular rosewood tabletop features a central, removable, enameled steel container which could be used as a planter or to store glasses, bottles etc. The April, 1966 issue of the famous Italian design periodical 'Rivista dell Arredamento' illustrates Jo Colombo's visionary range of modular furniture from his inventive small foldaway micro kitchen, to the 'combi' range of stackable sculptural storage...
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