Design
Design
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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)