Beta

Joe Colombo 2010
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Colombo’s project called for the use of an original axial assembly system that was particularly robust, concealed by a shock absorber made of resin that made a doorstop superfluous. The system was recognised as an invention and patented.

FINISHES

  • MATERIALBrass

  • TYPOLOGYRound

Beta

 - COMPLETE COLLECTION

BETA, 2010

The twofold function was integrated in a slender and futuristic shape in the model Paracolpi Alfa.

— Total Furnishing Unit, “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape”, MoMA, New York 1972

— Joe Colombo

In the 2000s, the adoption of an assembly system with a grub screw allowed for the reproduction of the original shape and special elegance of the Beta handle.
— Ignazia Favata

VEDI BIO JOE COLOMBO

— Boby, contenitore, Bieffeplast 1970

— Acrilica, lampada, O-Luce 1963

— Habitat futuribile “Visiona1”, Bayer, 1969

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