Joe Colombo

Industrial designer Joe Colombo was born in Milan, in 1930. Colombo’s life was brief and intense, but he left his mark as one of Italy’s greatest designers before dying in 1971 at the young age of 41. He was a man who strongly believed in the future, and was an influential figure in the fast-paced 1960’s, when technology began to advance rapidly. Colombo’s vision of the future was “anti-nostalgic,” because he believed that intelligent technology would eventually benefit every human activity and lay the foundation for completely new living models. He designed his “Acrilica” lamp in 1962, with his brother Gianni Colombo.