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Joe Colombo, Tube Chair

Lot Closed

October 7, 06:38 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Joe Colombo

Tube Chair


circa 1969

manufactured by Flexform, Milan

vinyl, polyurethane foam, tubular steel, rubber

33 x 47 x 25 in. (83.9 x 119.4 x 63.5 cm) as shown

Galerie Laffanour, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003

Ignazia Favata, Joe Colombo and Italian Design of the Sixties, Cambridge, MA, 1988, pp. 82-83

Mateo Kries and Alexander von Vegesack, eds., Joe Colombo: Inventing the Future, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum and La Triennale di Milano, Weil am Rhein, 2005, pp. 230 (for drawings of the model) and 231

Giampero Bosoni, Il Modo Italiano: Design e avanguardie artistiche in Italia nel XX secolo, Milan, 2007, p. 295 (for the model in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mew York)

Modern Furniture: 150 Years of Design, Königswinter, Germany, 2009, pp. 5 and 363

Charlotte and Peter Fiell, 1000 Chairs, Taschen, Cologne, 2013, p. 420 (for a related example)