Joe Colombo (Italian, 1930–1971)
Manufactured by Comfort Fratelli Longhi (Italian, founded 1959)
Elda Chair, no 1005
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Joe Colombo (Italian, 1930–1971)
Manufactured by Comfort Fratelli Longhi (Italian, founded 1959)designed 1963
Elda Chair, no 1005
Joe Colombo (Italian, 1930–1971) Manufactured by Comfort Fratelli Longhi (Italian, founded 1959) →20th Centurychairfunctional object
Date
designed 1963
Medium
Fiberglass and vinyl
Dimensions
97 × 100 × 91 cm (38 × 39 1/4 × 36 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Gordon and Carole Segal
Cesare “Joe” Colombo was an Italian designer renowned for combining pop aesthetics and high-tech materials with a total or environmental attitude toward design. Colombo anticipated that technology’s profound impact on society would increasingly allow people to retreat to the private spaces of their own homes. More accurate for today than the 1960s, his vision of a modern networked lifestyle was supported by furniture like the Elda armchair, whose cocoonlike seat and swiveling base created an ideal throne for the new citizen, comfortably connected to the world through the television, telephone, and other communication media.
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