Joe Colombo's iconic Elda Chair is treated to its own feature in @archdigest Read more about the chair in the new @silvanaeditoriale catalogue raisonné, 'Joe Colombo: Designer' and this magazine feature via linkinbio. @_h_mart_ writes: After Italian designer Joe Colombo visited a shipyard in 1963 that made fiberglass hulls for boats, inspiration struck: Why not use that same hand-molding technique for the base of a chair? The results—a roomy, futuristic armchair in which seven detachable cushions hook into a molded plastic shell on a rotating base—would become an icon. He named it after his wife, Elda.… While design people clamor for vintage models (at auction they go for around $3,000), new ones are still produced—with some material updates—by Italian maker Longhi. The appeal is wide-ranging. Designer @holliebowden who snapped up a worn-in Elda in Morocco for a project in Ibiza, calls it “super comfy and quite bosslike.” Meanwhile, designer @jonathanadler who lives with one in his Manhattan home, calls the seat “a strange mix of plastic futurism and organic brainlike channel upholstery in a commanding scale.” Or, as he has deemed it, “executive squish.” #eldachair #joecolombo #italiandesign https://www.instagram.com/p/CYUHKgwF0kM/?utm_medium=tumblr
