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COLUMBUS. The story of the most famous steel tubes in the history of cycling began in 1919 when Angelo Luigi Colombo founded his steel mill with the ambition to “to do busi ness in iron and steel and make a fair and honest profit". In the 1930s Colombo created the name Columbus for cycling specific tubes: producing the first reinforced tubes ...
With his tubing well-proven in the bicycle industry, Angelo Luigi saw strength in creativity and diversity and was soon supplying material for the tubular frames of seaplanes and road vehicles, as well as for furniture and ski-poles.
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With his tubing well-proven in the bicycle industry, Angelo Luigi saw strength in creativity and diversity and was soon supplying material for the tubular frames of seaplanes and road vehicles, as well as for furniture and ski-poles.
With his tubing well-proven in the bicycle industry, Angelo Luigi saw strength in creativity and diversity and was soon supplying material for the tubular frames of seaplanes and road vehicles, as well as for furniture and ski-poles.
Aug 23, 2019 · One day in early 1933, the Milanese industrialist Angelo Luigi Colombo – whose company based in Lambrate, Milan, specialized in the production of metal tubing for a wide range of uses, such as the construction of aeroplanes or bicycle frames – decided to go and see the architect Marcel Breuer in order to ask him if he could produce his ...
Columbus and Wohnbedarf license. In the early months of 1933 Milanese entrepreneur Angelo Luigi Colombo decided to meet the architect Marcel Breuer to discuss his tubular steel furniture.
The third and last exhibition investigates the deep relationship among Columbus, Cinelli, bicycles and art. The exhibition Flessibili splendori: Columbus and the tubular furniture, opens on Wednesday, September 25th at 6.30 p.m. Set design curated by Franco Raggi.
