Boby Colombo

Plastic Bar Cart

Boby Trolley

Bieffeplast Italy

Joe Colombo Cart

Gold Compass

Gold Black Mid Century Storage

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Joe Colombo Boby Trolley for Bieffeplast, Italy

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H 28.75 in W 16.93 in D 16.15 in

Joe Colombo Boby Trolley for Bieffeplast, Italy

By Joe Colombo

Located in Brecht, BE

The "boby" trolley storage system was designed by the Italian industrial designer, Joe Colombo in 1969.

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Late 20th Century Italian Tray Tables

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Plastic

Joe Colombo Boby Mobile Office Organizer B33

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H 29.14 in W 16.93 in D 16.93 in

Joe Colombo Boby Mobile Office Organizer B33

By Joe Colombo

Located in Vienna, AT

Joe Colombo Boby storage organizing trolley with three levels and three drawers (model B33).

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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Set of 3 Joe Colombo Boby Trolley

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H 29.5 in W 17 in D 16 in

Set of 3 Joe Colombo Boby Trolley

By Joe Colombo

Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR

Signed original made in Italy. yellow, brown,white SHIPPING TO NY 300 euros

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Plastic

H 20.75 in Dm 18.51 in

Space Age Vintage Red Orange Plastic Bar Cart, 1970s, Germany

Located in Vienna, AT

Space Age vintage red orange plastic bar cart or serving table or side table 1970s Germany. A wonderful bar cart or serving table from plastic circular like with three connections ...

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Vintage 1970s German Space Age Carts and Bar Carts

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Plastic

Space Age White Plastic Vintage Storage Trolley Container Joe Colombo 1970 Italy

$1,473

$1,685

H 28.75 in W 19.69 in D 25.99 in

White 1960s Dutch Modernist Serving / Bar Trolley

Located in Weesp, NL

1960s Dutch Modernist Serving / Bar Trolley A striking example of mid-century Dutch design, this 1960s serving trolley combines clean geometry with practical elegance. Its angular w...

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Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts

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Vintage 1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures

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Bronze

$26,000

H 37.38 in W 57 in D 2.25 in

13-Star Wool American Flag, with Zig-Zag Stars, Circa 1900

Located in Colorado Springs, CO

This is a beautiful 13-star American flag, each star sewn with zig-zag stitching. The wool flag was sewn at the turn of the century, circa 1900. The flag features 13 white stars rest...

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Antique Early 1900s American American Classical Political and Patriotic ...

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Brass

Rare Art Deco Streamlined Moderne Dresser by Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky

$2,499Sale Price|44% Off

H 39 in W 35 in D 19 in

Rare Art Deco Streamlined Moderne Dresser by Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky

By Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky

Located in Lafayette, IN

Rare streamlined dresser by Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky for Red Lion Furniture. The count was famous for his wonderfully stylized Industrial designs and worked with major automakers ...

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Vintage 1930s American Streamlined Moderne Dressers

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Walnut

Vintage Original Wolf 1956 Dress Form Mannequin

$650

H 60.5 in W 19 in D 19 in

Vintage Original Wolf 1956 Dress Form Mannequin

Located in Doylestown, PA

Vintage original Wolf 1956 dress form mannequin, New York. Well worn Benjamin model dress form mannequin in size 14 on a cast iron base with casters. The form is wrapped in linen an...

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Vintage 1950s American Bohemian Coat Racks and Stands

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Iron

Italian modern wood, steel and leather desk attributed by Fabio Lenci, 1970s

$11,997

H 28.75 in W 85.83 in D 78.75 in

Italian modern wood, steel and leather desk attributed by Fabio Lenci, 1970s

By Fabio Lenci

Located in MIlano, IT

Italian modern wood, steel and leather desk attributed by Fabio Lenci, 1970s Desk for center of the room with a C-shaped structure in white painted wood. The rectangular top is uphol...

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Vintage 1970s Italian Modern Desks and Writing Tables

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Metal, Steel

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Boby Colombo For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal boby colombo for your home. Frequently made of plastic, acrylic and metal, every boby colombo was constructed with great care. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect boby colombo — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A boby colombo, designed in the Mid-Century Modern or Modern style, is generally a popular piece of furniture.

How Much is a Boby Colombo?

A boby colombo can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $700, while the lowest priced sells for $395 and the highest can go for as much as $1,460.

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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Materials: Plastic Furniture

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.