Cappellini
Tube Chair
Price starting from € 3.770,00*
*Price valid for the version with white frame and upholstery in fabric cat. C (cod. TUC1).
The Tube Chair by Joe Colombo is one of the great immortal icons in the history of Italian design. Initially produced by Flexform, it is now one of the flagships of the Cappellini catalog. It was designed in 1969 and represents one of the first examples of experiments in Radical Design that began to take its first steps precisely in those years, deviating from the precise and functional shapes that characterized post-war furnishings. In Tube Chair the seat, base and backrest are interchangeable: the armchair is in fact made up of four hollow cylindrical modules of different sizes, which can be freely positioned and fixed through hooks, which allow the armchair to assume different configurations from time to time: Tube Chair can be used as a low chaise longue as well as a more composed bergère, always keeping in the foreground its unsettling character so characteristic of an era.
W.62 x D.115 x H.66,5 cm
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Giulio Cappellini, from the beginning the heart and mind of the namesake company, has gained over the years the well-deserved reputation of being one of the greatest talent scouts in the history of Italian design. His flair has brought to Italy a large number of young designers from all over the world, who have found in Cappellini the ideal environment to create bold and avant-garde projects, thus often starting careers from real design-star. The Cappellini philosophy of supporting the creativity of their designers, has given life to a rich and heterogeneous catalog, in which a multi-faceted “author” styls coexists. Over the years, this peculiarity has given Cappellini top marks and places in the most important museums of the world such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Center Pompidou in Paris.Read more
Designed by
Joe Colombo
Joe Colombo (1930-1971) went down in history as the "designer of the future". His creations are permeated by an optimistic vision of progress and aim at creating a radically new way of understanding the home environment. The result was a pioneering interest in innovative materials such as plastic, at the time used in the field of furniture only for experimental projects, and a very modern attention to the theme of modularity, often taken to the extreme as in the Visiona 1 installation designed for Bayer. in which every room of the house is rethought in science fiction as a "functional station". Born in Milan, he dedicated his youth to art and painting, joining the Nuclear Art movement. He only became interested in design when he was thirty and had only one decade to devote to the discipline, before his sudden and premature death from cardiac arrest. But that decade was the 1960s, a period of swirling changes, and his creations set the tone for an era: armchairs like the Elda (now re-proposed by Longhi) or the Tube Chair (designed for Flexform and re-edited by Cappellini) in the collections of all the most important design museums around the world, as well as the Minikitchen designed for Boffi, the vast collection of lamps produced by Oluce, and the fruits of its collaborations with brands such as Kartell and Zanotta. Among the products that today re-edit his creations there are also B-Line, Amini, Karakter and many others.Read more