Joe Colombo

Joe Colombo, pseudonym of Cesare Colombo, was an Italian designer and architect. Born in Milan in 1930, he founded the Nuclear Movement together with Enrico Baj and Sergio Dangelo, and then joined the International Movement for an Imaginary Bauhaus and the Movement for Concrete Art. Upon his father's death in 1959, Colombo opened an architecture studio with his brother Gianni, with whom he designed the Acrilica lamp (1962), awarded at the 1964 Triennale. He died prematurely at the age of 41 and today his studio, carried on by his historic collaborator Ignazia Favata, houses the designer's archive.