That scamp, Joe Colombo  

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.

Nice site
Thanks for sharing!

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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 !