Meet Joe Colombo
Joe Colombo introduces the relationship between space and time into design, defining furniture as autonomous, flexible, transformable, and independent of the architectural context.
After studying at the Politecnico di Milano and the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Joe Colombo (1930–1971) focused on designing mass-produced industrial products, many of which, through modular combinations, became comprehensive systems of objects for various domestic environments.
Throughout his career, he received numerous accolades, and many of his works are now part of the collections of the world’s most important museums.
I give an extreme importance to the study of an object for mass production, to its engineered design and to the choice of materials, to simplify the manufacturing process.
These elements determine the concept and the shape of the object, so that the stylistic disappears as a fundamental element of creativity.
Furniture thus becomes a type of equipment capable of adapting to spaces and times to meet the needs of those who use it: “future-living machines”, which have become icons influencing the way people live in small open spaces. Initially, his projects used traditional materials but later evolved into material experimentation and the use of more advanced technologies.
Based on the experience gathered over the last 10 years, we have arrived at the design of a home whose space is no longer conceived according to static schemes, but which demands the dynamism of the system and its integration with existing architectural structures.
It is therefore clear that such a system requires the creation of coordinated, flexible, modular, transformable elements that will undoubtedly determine the total overcoming of the design-object product.
Discover Additional System, by Joe Colombo
Originally by Joe Colombo from 1967, reimagined today by Tacchini: a modular system of six different sized cushions forming an interesting shape like a sculpture.
