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After an initial trial period, in which Columbus exhibited at the VI Triennale in Milan, Angelo Luigi obtained exclusivity of supply to EMBRU for the production of Marcel Breuer’s iconic furniture designs.
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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 ...
Later in the 1930s, the Columbus name, along with ‘Aelle’ and ‘Tenax’ was fi rst applied to special sets of bicycle tubes – the Columbus tubes being drawn from Chrome Molybdenum steel and the fork blades being elliptical, laying down standard characteristics that remain commonplace to this day.
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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Aug 23, 2019 · The story of Columbus is an important one for the history of Italian design, and one that it has been possible to preserve and reconstruct thanks to the meritorious efforts of Antonio Colombo, Angelo Luigi’s son.
The history of Columbus goes back to 1919 when Angelo Luigi Colombo (or A.L.) first set up a shop to produce steel tubing. In the 1920s Colombo's tubing was used for aircraft applications, and also, according to their own history page, frames for motorcycles.
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Following Breuer’s suggestion, Angelo Luigi Colombo signs an agreement to realize exclusively and to produce under licence, with its Columbus brand, the furniture for Breuer and other architects of the Bauhaus and of the Swiss-German school, such as Flora Steiger and Werner Moser.
