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Exhibitions [ edit ]. Precisely at this time, Italy was recognized worldwide for its experimental approach to architecture and design. Joe Colombo studied architecture at the Politechnico di Milano and painting at the Brera Academy in Milan from to It presented a complete "living-machine," comprising kitchen, wardrobe, bathroom, and sleeping accommodation, on only 28 square meters.

Italian Design Club. Categories : births deaths Italian industrial designers Polytechnic University of Milan alumni Brera Academy alumni Compasso d'Oro Award recipients Italian furniture designers Product designers. Archived from the original on 24 January Architecture, design. Cesare "Joe" Colombo was until educated at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera , the academy of fine arts, in Milano as a painter and studied afterwards until Architecture at Politecnico di Milano University.

Elda was the name of Colombo's wife. No items found. As a designer Colombo made his breakthrough when he designed a television set and a setting for ceramics shown at the X Triennale di Milano in He died early, in , many of his projects were produced years later also by Ignazia Favata who directs his studio. Throughout the s he collaborated with leading publishers such as Kartell, O-Luce and Zanotta.

Clicking on "Subscribe" you agree to Privacy Policy of this website. Boby container 1. Today, however, it is produced by Longhi. Here is what was said:. Designed in , this armchair is made up of four hollow cylinders that can be combined differently, through metal fixing hooks, so as to obtain different seating configurations.

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In , the XIV Triennale entrusted him with the emplacement of an entire industry where new proposals are submitted for design and interior architecture: between these include the " Programmable System for living ". While Colombo gradually moved away from artistic experiences, his brother Gianni founded Group T in with Davide Boriani, Giovanni Anceschi and Gabriele Devecchi, which quickly became one of the most important groups of kinetic and programmed art in Italy.

This room consisted of "Barbella-like" space interiors where furniture became structure elements and vice versa. Important figure, the Milanese architect and designer, after a career start in the world of art, with an exhibition alongside artists such as Fontana , Matta , and others his brother Gianni is an artist , joins the mac concrete art movement in he devoted himself to design.

His Visiona-Livingroom of the future was exhibited at the Visiona-Exhibition of Trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, after a short period of activity as an artist within the Nuclear Movement, together with Enrico Baj and Sergio Dangelo, from on the advice of Bruno Munari he decided to devote himself exclusively to industrial design.

Publications [ edit ]. Colombo developed the idea of prismatic lamps and was the first to design a domestic light made for halogen light bulb. Download as PDF Printable version. Maximize the exposure of your upcoming auction on Barnebys today!

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A utore residential systems that are revolutionizing the traditional concept of living. He created the professional camera Trisystem , the air conditioner Candy , dinnerware for Alitalia ; still in use , as well as an ergonomic and engined printing table. Many of his works are still exhibited in museums around the world and the artist is the subject of regular retrospectives, studies and exhibitions.