Boby Trolley

Plastic Bar Cart

Bieffeplast Italy

Gold Compass

Gold Black Mid Century Storage

Modern Storage Plastic

Joe Colombo Boby Cart

Materials

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H 29 in W 17 in D 16 in

joe Columbo art cart Boby by Padova Italia 1968

Located in Philadelphia, PA

Black Plastic Boby Art Cart with all drawers and covers, signed on bottom Prouzione Bieffeplast Padova Italia

Materials

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Glass, Walnut

$32,500

H 30 in W 51 in D 21.25 in

19th Century French Louis XVI Style Kidney Desk with Satinwood Inlay

Located in Queens, NY

French Louis XVI style (19th Century) satinwood and inlaid 6 legged kidney shaped desk with side slides.

Category

Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Satinwood

Vintage Monumental Leopard Velvet Sofa

$11,750

H 42 in W 98.75 in D 28 in

Vintage Monumental Leopard Velvet Sofa

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

Make a bold, high-octane statement with this monumental vintage leopard print velvet sofa. A quintessential example of 1970s Hollywood Regency glamour, this three-seat couch is uphol...

Category

Late 20th Century American Hollywood Regency Sofas

Materials

Fabric, Velvet, Wood

Ingo Maurer Samurai Table Lamp

$4,400

H 30 in W 30 in D 8 in

Ingo Maurer Samurai Table Lamp

By Ingo Maurer

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Ingo Maurer and Dagmar Mombach Samurai table lamp (from the MaMo Nouchies series) Ingo Maurer GmbH Germany, 1998 Fiberglass shade, powder-coated steel, stainless steel, silicone 30 h...

Category

1990s German Table Lamps

Materials

Steel

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Boby Trolley For Sale on 1stDibs

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the boby trolley you’re looking for at 1stDibs. A boby trolley — often made from plastic, metal and wood — can elevate any home. Your living room may not be complete without a boby trolley — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. A boby trolley, designed in the Mid-Century Modern or Modern style, is generally a popular piece of furniture.

How Much is a Boby Trolley?

Prices for a boby trolley start at $395 and top out at $1,460 with the average selling for $703.

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.