Robo space age bar cart by Joe Colombo for Elco , 1960s.
By Joe Colombo, Elco
Located in Athens, Attiki
Robo space age bar cart by Joe Colombo for Elco , 1960s. This rare find has an internal layer than can be adjusted to create different storage compartments.
Plastic
Boby storage cabinet with wheels and compartments by Joe Colombo for BieffePlast
By Joe Colombo, Bieffeplast
Located in Milano, IT
Famous object trolley designed by Joe Colombo in the 1960s and produced by BIEFFEPLAST. The trolley for sale is dated 1980. It is in good condition, with small marks due to wear an...
Plastic
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.
Steel
Mid Century Modern Joe Colombo Iconic Boby Trolley Cart 1970 Bieffeplast Italy
By Bieffeplast, Joe Colombo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This “Boby” trolley or portable storage system was designed by Joe Colombo in 1968. A very versatile trolley made of ABS plastic with an ingenious storage system.
Plastic
Joe Colombo Chairs Sedia Universale 4867 by Kartell Vintage Made in Italy
By Kartell, Joe Colombo
Located in Vancouver, BC
A Colombo classic! It's safe to say these are making a comeback in modern interiors today and its sensibility can match well with a wide range of materialities. The design is also it...
Plastic
Italian modern green table lamp Topo by Joe Colombo for Stilnovo, 1970s
By Joe Colombo, Stilnovo
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern green table lamp Topo by Joe Colombo for Stilnovo, 1970s Table lamp mod.
Metal
Oluce Acrilica 281 MP Limited Edition Table Lamp - Joe & Gianni Colombo 220–240V
By Oluce, Joe Colombo
Located in Alcamo, IT
The Acrilica 281 MP Limited Edition, designed by Joe Colombo and Gianni Colombo for Oluce in 1962, is one of the most iconic masterpieces of Italian design and a landmark in the hist...
Marble
Minimalist Elegant 'Spider' Floor Lamp by Joe Colombo for Oluce, Italy 1965
By Joe Colombo, Oluce
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
Elegant minimalist spider' floor lamp designed in 1965 by Joe Colombo (1930-71) for Oluce Italy. This is a rare early production example with '1967' label attached (produced around...
Chrome, Steel
Mid-Century Modern Italian Space Age Spider Arc Wall Lamp Joe Colombo Oluce
By Oluce, Joe Colombo
Located in Hamburg, DE
A design classic by oluce based on a design by joe colombo from the 1960s. This is an earlier version with the original bayonet socket and in the rare color brown.
Metal
Elda Chair and Ottoman by Joe Colombo for Comfort, Italy 1970s
By Comfort, Italy, Joe Colombo
Located in Hellouw, NL
The Elda chair, designed in 1963 by the visionary Italian designer Joe Colombo, remains one of the most recognisable lounge chairs of the 20th century. Sculptural, enveloping and fut...
Leather, Plastic
Golden Limited Edition Elda Chair by Joe Colombo for Longhi Italy no. 8/20
By Joe Colombo, Longhi
Located in Nagykovácsi, Central Hungary
LONGHI celebrated the Elda chair's 60th anniversary by creating a limited edition golden chair based on Joe Colombo’s original ELDA design. The chair was only taken out of its origin...
Metal
Rare set of Flash wall or ceiling lamps by Joe Colombo for Oluce, Italy 1960
By Oluce, Joe Colombo
Located in Milano, IT
Each lamp features a chalice-shaped aluminum shade and finished in matte white lacquer. A black plastic knob allows adjustment of the main body's rotation angle. Designed and manufac...
Aluminum
Joe Columbo styled Space Age Targa Lounge Chair w/ Ottoman
By Joe Colombo
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A very sculptural Space Age Targa lounge chair with ottoman having green leatherette headrest and ottoman . Unique and very well crafted with smooth lines and is very comfortable , a...
Plastic
$5,829
Joe Colombo armchair
Located in Oosterbeek, NL
Joe Colombo armchair model 4801 designed 1963 for Kartel made of 3 plywood parts limited edition rare to find with the Original cushions
Plastic, Plywood
Vintage Broyhill Premier Yellow Molded Plastic Space Age Joe Colombo Style Desk
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Broyhill Premier Yellow Molded Plastic Space Age Joe Colombo Style 3 Drawer Desk.
Plastic, Laminate
Rare 1970s Off-White Plastic Children Desk with Stool, circa 1970
By Joe Colombo
Located in Amsterdam IJMuiden, NL
This item is part of the private collection of Casey Godrie and is situated in his private house. Ask him for competitive shipping quotes. His incredible Dune Villa, Amsterdam Beach...
Polyester
Zanotta Poker Card Table in Double Top White Plastic Laminate and Green Leather
By Joe Colombo, Zanotta
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Zanotta Poker Card Table in Double Top White Plastic Laminate and Green Baize Leather by Joe Colombo Double top in 9/16” thick , white layered plastic laminate.
Plastic
White Laminated Plastic Storage Unit with Shelves & Sliding Doors, La Rinascente
By La Rinascente, Joe Colombo
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Its style reminds similar Joe Colombo products such as the "Sistema programmabile per abitare T14" also produced for La Rinascente, Milan.
Plastic, Laminate
$4,196Sale Price|20% Off
A very rare Italian Lamp Carrara marble base in the manner of Joe Colombo 1960s
By Joe Colombo, Gae Aulenti, Afra & Tobia Scarpa, Elio Martinelli
Located in BARCELONA, ES
This rare Italian lamp, reminiscent of the style of Joe Colombo and dating back to the 1960s, epitomizes the innovative spirit of Space Age design. Its Carrara marble base not only ...
Carrara Marble, Aluminum
1960's Space Age Rare Ashtray in Melamine Germany
By Joe Colombo
Located in San Diego, CA
Great design on this cool red melamine Space age ashtray with removable top circa 1970's , in the style of Luiggi Colanni & Joe Colombo.
Plastic
$300Sale Price|20% Off
1980's Italian Postmodern Multidirectional Desk Table Lamp
By Joe Colombo
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare postmodern Italian design, multidirectional table desk lamp enameled white metal finish with plastic fittings, circa 1980's in great condition in many different positions.
Metal
1980, Sculpture Prototype Solar Car
By Joe Colombo
Located in Perpignan, FR
Prototype solar acr maded by Design departement of the Delft university - Holland Measures: 260 x 100 x 110 cm Fiberglass & gelcoat Very good conditions Perfrect for wall install...
Resin, Epoxy Resin, Plastic, Fiberglass
Pair of Midcentury Table Lamps, Space Age, 1970s
By Joe Colombo
Located in Praha, CZ
- Very nice style of lighting - rare type.
Plastic
Vintage Game Table Model "Poker" by Joe Colombo - Italy - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Game Tabel model "Poker", realized by Joe Colombo. Covered in white laminated plastic, four cylindrical legs in chromed metal.
Wood
Vintage Mid Century Modern Joe Colombo Style Coat Tree Hook Rack Umbrella Stand
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Mid Century Modern Joe Colombo Style Coat Tree Stand. Item features a white coated plastic frame, 12 hooks, lower umbrella / cane stand holder, round smoked glass top, rollin...
Metal
1980s Tubular Space Age Adjustable Desk or Drafting Table by Brieffe Italy
By Joe Colombo, Bieffeplast
Located in Bensalem, PA
Adjustable height drafting table with organization. Please look at pictures for overall detail feel free to reach out with any questions
Metal
Space Age Vintage Orange White Table Lamp KD 24 Joe Colombo Italy c 1966
Located in Vienna, AT
Space age authentic orange white table lamp model KD 24 by Joe Colombo circa 1966 and launched in 1968 for Kartell, Noviglio, Italy.
Chrome
Set of 2 minimalist space age lamps, Netherlands 1970s
By Joe Colombo, Ettore Sottsass
Located in ECHT, NL
Minimalist space age design from the 1970s. Made in the Netherlands. The set consists of a floor lamp with 3 globes and a table lamp with 1 globe. The globes are made from frosted wh...
Metal
1960s Green Mid Century Space Age Italian Table Lamp
By (After) Gio Ponti, Joe Colombo
Located in San Diego, CA
1960s Mid-Century space age plastic lamp from Italy. 1960s
Plastic
Early Pentacolore Cuboluce Table Lamps by Franco Bettonica & Mario Melocchi 1972
By Gae Aulenti, Cini & Nils, Joe Colombo, Alessandro Mendini, Mario Melocchi and Franco Bettonica
Located in München, BY
Set of two early Mid-Century Modern iconic table lamps. Model cuboluce. Designed by Franco Bettonica und Mario Melocchi 1972 for Cini & Nils, Italy. Produced probably in 1970s. Under...
Plastic
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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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.
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