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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".
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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The Soul of Cycling since 1919. In 1919, as Europe emerged from the ashes of the Great War, a twenty-seven year old Angelo Luigi ‘A.L.’ Colombo signed the lease on a small factory and so began the production of steel tubes.
The story of our company started in 1919. When Angelo Luigi Colombo, assisted by his brother Martino, founded the first Italian drawing mill of seamless precision steel tubes in Milan, the A. L. Colombo.
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 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.
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.
