$544Sale Price|30% Off
Bobby Cart by Joe Colombo, ABS Plastic, Italian Design, 1970s Vintage
By Joe Colombo
Located in Roma, IT
Bobby Cart is an original decorative object realized by Gio Colombo during the 1970s. 81 X 36 cm.
Plastic
$680Sale Price|30% Off
Bobby Cart by Joe Colombo, ABS Plastic, Italian Design, 1970s Vintage
By Joe Colombo
Located in Roma, IT
Bobby cart is an original decorative object realized by Gio Colombo during the 1970s.
Plastic
Vintage Red Bobby Cart by Gio Colombo, 1970s
By B-Line, Joe Colombo
Located in Roma, IT
Red Bobby Cart is an original decorative object realized by Gio Colombo during the 1970s.
Plastic
Sold
H 21.66 in W 16.93 in D 16.93 in
2x Joe Colombo Rollcontainer Bobby Beistelltisch schwarz 1970 Italien
By Joe Colombo
Located in Berlin, DE
Wir bieten 2 Original Beistelltische/ Rollcontainer von Joe Colombo zum Verkauf an. Das Design stammt aus den 1970er Jahren aus Italien und erlangte weltweite Beliebtheit durch seine...
Plastic
Sold
H 37.01 in W 16.93 in D 16.54 in
Iconic storage container “Bobby” by Joe Colombo for Bieffeplast, Italy 1970s
By Bieffeplast, Joe Colombo
Located in Meulebeke, BE
Italy / 1970 / trolley Boby / Joe Colombo / Bieffeplast / plastic / Mid-century / vintage A sleek white decorative storage unit on wheels for effortless mobility by Joe Colombo and ...
Plastic
Vintage Boby 3 Trolley in Honey Yellow by Joe Colombo for Bieffeplast
By Bieffeplast, Joe Colombo
Located in San Diego, CA
Notable projects include some of the most iconic designs of the 1960s, such as his 1963 Elda Armchair, made completely of fiberglass; the 1964 Ragno outdoor light, which doubled as a...
Plastic
Sold
H 29.14 in W 16.54 in D 16.93 in
Joe Colombo ''Boby 3'' Italian Portable Storage System for Bieffeplast, 1960s
By Bieffeplast, Joe Colombo
Located in Roma, IT
Notable projects include some of the most iconic designs of the 1960s, such as his 1963 Elda Armchair, made completely of fiberglass; the 1964 Ragno outdoor light, which doubled as a...
Plastic
Vintage White and white Robo side table by Joe Colombo for Elco 1970s
By Joe Colombo
Located in Catania, IT
The same concept applies to the famous Bobby trolley (1970), the Elda chair (1970) with its high back defining a specific area, and the Colombo lamp (1972) using a halogen source to ...
Metal
White Joe Colombo Bobby Trolley for Bieffeplast, 1970
By Bieffeplast, Joe Colombo
Located in Frankfurt / Dreieich, DE
White Joe Colombo bobby trolley for Bieffeplast 1970s with three drawers.
Plastic
$1,759
H 21.65 in W 16.93 in D 15.75 in
Mid-Century Italian Space Age Bar Trolley or Side Table by Giovanni Pelis, 1960s
By Giovanni Pelis
Located in Hamburg, DE
Space Age mobile pedestal by Stile Neolt based on a design by Giovanni Pelis from the 1960s. Here in the classic orange colour and a rare version without pull-outs. These mobile ped...
Plastic
$403Sale Price|20% Off
H 20.48 in W 16.15 in D 16.54 in
Cremewhite Boby Trolley by Joe Colombo for Bieffeplast, Italy, 1970s
By Joe Colombo, Bieffeplast
Located in Vienna, AT
Designed in 1969, Joe Colombo’s iconic "Boby 3" portable storage system was produced by Italian manufacturer Bieffeplast and makes savy use of space with its swivel design. It is mad...
Plastic
Mid-Century Artists Trolley by Giovanni Pelis for Stile Neolt, 1970s
By Stile Neolt, Giovanni Pelis
Located in Hilversum, NL
This vintage art station, crafted in Italy during the 1970s, is a standout piece designed by Giovanni Pelis for Stile Neolt. Made from durable plastic and fiberglass, this trolley fe...
Plastic, Fiberglass
$687
H 29.14 in W 16.15 in D 16.93 in
Joe Colombo Boby Work Trolley, Plastic, Mid-Century Modern, 1971
By Bieffeplast, Joe Colombo
Located in bari, IT
An elegant and at the same time practical and useful work trolley, model Boby, this one designed by Joe Colombo and produced by Bieffeplast. Designed for architects and engineers, it...
Plastic
Trolley / cart by Bieffeplast Padova 1970s
By Bieffeplast
Located in Athens, Attiki
Italian drinks and serving trolley by Bieffeplast Padova. Upper and lower removable and interchangeable tray sections as well as bottle storage.
Metal
$950
H 29.14 in W 17.72 in D 16.93 in
Mid Century Modern, Joe Colombo, black Boby Trolley Cart 1970, Italy
By Joe Colombo, Bieffeplast
Located in Dallas, TX
Mid Century Modern Iconic Joe Colombo Boby Trolley cart, in black color, designed by Joe Colombo and produced by Bieffeplast Italy. Original 1970 edition. This “Boby” trolley or port...
Plastic
$1,600
H 24 in W 16 in D 16 in
Vintage Italian Trolley on Wheels T9 by Luigi Caccia Dominioni for Azucena, 1960
By Azucena, Luigi Caccia Dominioni
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Embark on a journey through mid-century Italian design with the Vintage Trolley on Wheels T9 by Luigi Caccia Dominioni for Azucena, circa the 1960s. This iconic piece encapsulates Ca...
Brass
$400
H 28.75 in W 16.93 in D 16.54 in
Italian modern black cart Boby by Joe Colombo for Bieffeplast, 1970s
By Joe Colombo, Bieffeplast
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern black cart Boby by Joe Colombo for Bieffeplast, 1970s Boby storage cart with square base, made of black ABS plastic. The front of the trolley features two open compart...
Metal
Red Boby Trolley, Joe Colombo, Bieffeplast
By Joe Colombo
Located in Milano, Lombardia
he red Boby trolley, conceived by renowned designer Joe Colombo and produced by Bieffeplast, represents an icon of Italian design in the 1970s. This versatile and functional storage ...
Plastic
Bieffeplast Bar Trolley or Magazine Holder, Italy 1970s
By Bieffeplast
Located in Naples, IT
Typical Italian design trolley 1970s, produced by Bieffeplast. It is a modular plastic container, characterized by simple and functional lines with a rectangular shape and rounded c...
Plastic
Boby white trolley, Joe Colombo, Bieffeplast
By Joe Colombo
Located in Milano, Lombardia
he Boby trolley, conceived by renowned designer Joe Colombo and produced by Bieffeplast, represents an icon of Italian design in the 1970s. This versatile and functional storage cart...
Plastic
$1,000
H 31 in W 17 in D 17 in
1970s Joe Colombo for Bieffeplast Boby B33 Rolling Storage Cart Office Organizer
By Joe Colombo, Bieffeplast
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an Original Boby B33 Trolley Office Organizer, designed by Joe Colombo in 1969. This iteration was produced by Bieffeplast in Italy during the 1970s. The body of the cart con...
Steel
$515
H 29.14 in W 16.15 in D 16.93 in
Joe Colombo Boby Work Trolley, Plastic, Mid-Century Modern, 1971
By Joe Colombo, Bieffeplast
Located in bari, IT
An elegant and at the same time practical and useful work trolley, model Boby, this one designed by Joe Colombo and produced by Bieffeplast. Designed for architects and engineers, it...
Plastic
$1,545
H 28.94 in W 17.13 in D 16.34 in
Joe Colombo White Vintage Plastic Boby High Portable Storage Container, Italy
By Joe Colombo
Located in Vienna, AT
White vintage 3 high portable storage container designed by Joe Colombo in 1969, Italy and executed by Bieffeplast, Padova, Italy. The white Joe Colombo Boby storage container was ma...
Plastic
$2,034
H 23.63 in W 14.97 in D 14.97 in
Rare Table Cart Model T9 by Luigi Caccia Dominioni for Azucena, Italy, 1960s
By Azucena, Luigi Caccia Dominioni
Located in Milan, IT
Rare side table/cart model T9 by Luigi Caccia Dominioni for Azucena. Wood panels covered with original azure felt, brass frame.
Brass
Trolley "Boby," Joe Colombo, Italy 1970
By Joe Colombo
Located in Torino, IT
Trolley "Boby," Joe Colombo, Italy 1970
Plastic
$1,000Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 51.19 in W 36.62 in D 12.6 in
Cool Dutch 1970's Space Age Vanity Dressing Table & Matching Wallmounted Mirror
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
Fantastic 1970's Space Age Bedroom Vanity / Dressing Table The Vanity has an adjustable mirror and a drawer unit for storing your make up goodies A cute wall mounted mirror in yel...
Brass
Walnut Minimalist Handmade Platform Queen Bed Frame, Judd Style
By George Nakashima, Donald Judd, Figure Ground
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An ode to our friend Donald Judd, the bedframe design employs the tatami style of Japanese Rooms and the Hygge of Danish comfort. The reveal is celebrated in its shadow. Rest happens...
Plywood
LU Louis Sconce AS
By Lumfardo Luminaires
Located in Inglewood, CA
Handsome LU Louis sconce AS. An all brass wall sconce in an aged silver finish with patterned perforations by Lumfardo Luminaires. Made contemporary in the US. Multiples available fo...
Brass, Nickel
$2,397 / item
H 31.5 in W 39.38 in D 18.51 in
"Jorge" Bar Cart Modernist Style in Color Painted Steel and wood natural
By Alessandra Delgado
Located in Alto da Lapa, SP
True to her enthusiasm for the Modernist Movement Alessandra Delgado was inspired by Jorge Zalszupin timeless architectonic view to create the bar cart "Jorge". Elegant and versatil...
Steel
$4,672Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 23.63 in Dm 27.56 in
Rezzonico chandelier 5 arms clear Murano glass, multicolor details by Multiforme
By Multiforme
Located in Venezia, Veneto
Kia Ora chandelier 5 lights clear Murano glass with blue and ruby trims, multicolour vitreous paste details. Kia Ora is the combination of the traditional Venetian structure with g...
Blown Glass, Art Glass, Murano Glass
$2,800 / set
H 17.5 in W 10.5 in D 6.5 in
Pair of Art Deco Style Murano Smoked Glass Wall Sconces, Italy Contemporary
Located in Miami, FL
Pair of Art Deco style Murano smoked glass wall lights, contemporary Smoked / fume color and horizontal striation texture Black opaline finial and brass accents Art Deco inspired de...
Brass
Maralunga sofa by Vico Magistretti for Cassina, 1970s
By Vico Magistretti, Cassina
Located in bruxelles, BE
Sofa in creamy white fabric designed by Vico Magistretti, Model: Maralunga. Seat height: 44 cm. Wear due to time and age. For shipping, request us for receive the best price.
Fabric
Pair of Tulips Murano Glass and Brass Sconces
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Pair of wall lamps, entirely handmade in Murano, Italy, that bring the energy of Nature and Feng Shui into your interior. This pair of modern organic wall lamps is composed of a hand...
Brass
Teal Murano Glass Long Chandelier
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Horizontal brass chandelier covered with layers of grooved teal Murano glass panels.
Brass
$8,342 / set
H 24.01 in W 13.78 in D 13.78 in Dm 13.78 in
Pair of Constant Night Stands in Poplar Burl wood by Master for Lemon
By Lemon
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Envisioned by designer Yaniv Chen, the Constant nightstand exudes an air of refined luxury, celebrating the inherent splendor of Poplar burl wood. Meticulously crafted with impeccabl...
Burl, Poplar
$4,571 / set
H 29.93 in W 20.08 in D 20.48 in
Set of 12 Lucite Pink and Chrome Plia Chairs, Piretti for Castelli, Italy 1970s
By Giancarlo Piretti, Anonima Castelli
Located in Roma, IT
Set of 12 original and signed "Plia" pink lucite folding chairs. NOS (new old Stock) This fantastic set was designed by Giancarlo Piretti for Castelli in 1967. PLIA, the symbol of a...
Steel, Chrome
$8,624
H 28.35 in W 48.04 in D 38.59 in
Early Mario Bellini Le Bambole Lounge Chair, Original Leather, C&B Italia, 1970s
By C&B Italia, Mario Bellini
Located in Lewes, East Sussex
A rare first edition Mario Bellini Le Bambole lounge chair, in its original wonderfully patinated leather, produced by C&B Italia, Italy, in the early 1970s. Fast shipping worldw...
Leather
$17,143
H 29.53 in W 94.49 in D 66.93 in
Bed Le Bambole in velvet & linen upholstery by Mario Bellini for B&B Italy 1972
By Mario Bellini
Located in Arezzo, Italy
Bed of Le Bambole series designed by Mario Bellini for B&b Italia 1970, reupholster in cotton velvet and linen. Carefully restored in antique pink velvet and linen to ensure b...
Cotton, Linen, Velvet
$160,317
H 110.24 in W 127.56 in D 127.56 in
1 BANGA space age micro architecture prefab house bungalow by Carlo Zappa, 1971
By Carlo Zappa
Located in Hyères, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
here we offer one of 2 bangas, with black interior. the second one with light grey interior is offered in another listing. a banga shows ways in which we could live more sustainably...
Fiberglass
$10,171
H 89.77 in W 60.63 in D 43.31 in
Italian 1970's Cocktail Dry Bar in Joe Colombo Style, Italy - circa 1975
By Joe Colombo
Located in Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland
Vintage 1970s Italian Mobile Dry Bar / Cocktail Bar – Mid-Century Modern Elegance The colour of the dark lacquered wood is an amazing very dark purple / aubergine (almost black). Th...
Chrome
$1,178 / item
H 28.55 in W 14.97 in D 14.97 in
Verner Panton 'Barboy' Bar Cabinet in Orange for Verpan
By Verner Panton
Located in Tilburg, NL
Verner Panton 'Barboy' Bar Cabinet for Verpan. Designed in 1963, current production. Adaptable side table and mobile storage unit in one. Barboy consists of three round-shaped drawe...
Wood
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.
Find vintage Joe Colombo lamps, seating and other furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Arguably the world’s most ubiquitous man-made material, plastic has impacted nearly every industry. In contemporary spaces, new and vintage plastic furniture is quite popular and its use pairs well with a range of design styles.
From the Italian lighting artisans at Fontana Arte to venturesome Scandinavian modernists such as Verner Panton, who created groundbreaking interiors as much as he did seating — see his revolutionary Panton chair — to contemporary multidisciplinary artists like Faye Toogood, furniture designers have been pushing the boundaries of plastic forever.
When The Graduate's Mr. McGuire proclaimed, “There’s a great future in plastics,” it was more than a laugh line. The iconic quote is an allusion both to society’s reliance on and its love affair with plastic. Before the material became an integral part of our lives — used in everything from clothing to storage to beauty and beyond — people relied on earthly elements for manufacturing, a process as time-consuming as it was costly.
Soon after American inventor John Wesley Hyatt created celluloid, which could mimic luxury products like tortoiseshell and ivory, production hit fever pitch, and the floodgates opened for others to explore plastic’s full potential. The material altered the history of design — mid-century modern legends Charles and Ray Eames, Joe Colombo and Eero Saarinen regularly experimented with plastics in the development of tables and chairs, and today plastic furnishings and decorative objects are seen as often indoors as they are outside.
Find vintage plastic lounge chairs, outdoor furniture, lighting and more on 1stDibs.