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JOE COLOMBO

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:800.00 - 1,200.00 USD
JOE COLOMBO
JOE COLOMBO
"Environnement"
Tableware, ca. 1970
manufactured by Ceramica
Franco Pozzi,
retailed by Pierre Cardin
ceramic, comprising salt and
pepper shakers, and
various sizes
of plates and bowls
marked with
Pozzi and Cardin marks
and one paper label (13)
17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm) high
Estimate: $800-1,200 <p>LITERATURE
"Idees Italiennes,"
L'Oeil, January 1971, p. 53
Charlotte and Peter Fiell,
70s Decorative Art,
Cologne, 2000, p. 541
<p>For the seminal exhibition, "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape" held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1972, one room consisted entirely of objects "selected for their implications of more flexible patterns of use and arrangement." Ponti's unsung and hard-to-find "Apta" series certainly fulfills this mandate, and the striking cabinet offered here can be used as a wardrobe, pantry or (most agreeably) liquor cabinet. Another rare model from this period is Colombo's "69" cabinet, which lives up to its nomenclature, as the castors can be removed and the piece flipped from a horizontal to vertical plane
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