That scamp, Joe Colombo

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Monochrome

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16/04/2009 7:33 pm

His tobacco pipes and his once-again fashionable narrow-lapel suits, on display at:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=210&p=0&id=391&fid=0

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claus (DE)

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16/04/2009 9:16 pm

I'm looking forward to...
I'm looking forward to spending my retirement on mars, but only if i'll be taken there on a smoker-flight in a Colombo-furnished spacecraft, sipping single-malt and smoking with only one hand. Period.

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16/04/2009 9:26 pm

Nice site
Thanks for sharing!

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rockland

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16/04/2009 10:18 pm

Wow.
Now that was fun.
(Not just tobacco in that pipe collection.)
I've only seen one of those photos previously.
And i never knew the cocktail glass with the offset base was for smokers!

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3thought

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16/04/2009 10:46 pm

Thanks, a few images I have n...
Thanks, a few images I have not seen before...nice size and resolution too. Joe Colombo was the first designer to really inspire me. I saw a great exhibtion on him last year too at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil an Rhein.

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Sound & Design

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16/04/2009 11:14 pm

Cognac
The smoking "thumb" glass has been placed on my queue of things to own at some point in my life. Non-smoker, but fluent in sign language, might come in handy.

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william-holden-...

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16/04/2009 11:49 pm

The smoker's glass is completely unnecessary
since the problem was already solved decades earlier by Norma Desmond.

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SDR

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17/04/2009 1:19 am

Looks like
she's about to tattoo the back of her hand. . .!
Meanwhile. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYKMBIX291M

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SDR

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17/04/2009 1:36 am

So,
on closer inspection I see for the first time that the Elda chair's intestinal back cushions are actually inflated bladders ?
Image 31 makes clear the four-wheel "lazy susan" base configuration.
Nice show. Thanks !

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