{"id":100,"date":"2011-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/?p=100"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:06:11","slug":"spider-lamp-joe-colombo-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/hogar\/spider-lamp-joe-colombo-1965","title":{"rendered":"Spider Lamp - Joe Colombo (1965)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spider Lamp - Joe Colombo (1965)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">He was christened Cesare, but was called Joe. He enrolled in science, but went into art and architecture. He inherited his father's ribbon factory, but turned it into an electrical factory, where he was able to experiment with fibreglass, ABS, PVC and various polyethylenes to his heart's content. And from the world of <strong>industrial design<\/strong> It moved on to domestic and back to industrial, and so on and so on, with the idea of making good design available to everyone.<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class='post-info'>30 May 2011 by <a href='https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/autor\/monapart'>Monapart<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960x960_\/public\/mediabrowser\/joe-colombo.jpg?itok=Zi1noGPC\" alt=\"Spider Lamp - Joe Colombo (1965) | Monapart\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With this background, how could he not be one of the most influential industrial designers in history? And believe it or not, he did it all in about 20 years (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joecolombo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Colombo<\/a><\/strong> died at the age of 41 of a heart attack) and always thinking about \"the life of the future\": the <strong>Universale<\/strong>the <strong>Elda chair<\/strong>the <a href=\"\/magazine\/en\/node\/459\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Boby<\/strong><\/a>their <strong>lamps<\/strong>... (<strong>Alogena, Coupe, Spider<\/strong>...), it all looks like something out of Enterprise itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960x960_\/public\/mediabrowser\/universale-chair-joe-colombo.jpg?itok=WLGsmRCX\" alt=\"Spider Lamp - Joe Colombo (1965) | Monapart\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960x960_\/public\/mediabrowser\/elda-chair-joe-colombo.jpg?itok=9phAMGXb\" alt=\"Spider Lamp - Joe Colombo (1965) | Monapart\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Spider<\/strong>The lamp, in both its table and floor versions, is a lamp of apparent simplicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960x960_\/public\/mediabrowser\/spider-lamp-joe-colombo_1.jpg?itok=yk_IirLM\" alt=\"Spider Lamp - Joe Colombo (1965) | Monapart\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The bulb is specially designed for the lamp (if you find a dealer who sells them, get a few), and gives horizontal and adjustable light from a lacquered metal structure that covers and protects it fixed to a chrome foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960x960_\/public\/mediabrowser\/spider-lamp-joe-colombo_2.jpg?itok=RnkMHRw0\" alt=\"Spider Lamp - Joe Colombo (1965) | Monapart\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He obtained the <strong>Compasso d'Oro Prize in 1967<\/strong> and is part of the permanent collection of the Triennale in Milan, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Kunstmuseum in D\u00fcsseldorf, the Neue Sammlung Museum in Monaco, etc. etc. etc. It is produced by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oluce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oluce<\/a><\/strong>founded in 1945 in Milan by Giuseppe Ostuni, and the oldest Italian design company still in business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960x960_\/public\/mediabrowser\/spider-lamp-joe-colombo_4.jpg?itok=RxSAo5Kg\" alt=\"Spider Lamp - Joe Colombo (1965) | Monapart\"\/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was christened Cesare, but was called Joe. He enrolled in science, but went into art and architecture. He inherited his father's ribbon factory, but turned it into an electrical factory, where he was able to experiment with fibreglass, ABS, PVC and various polyethylenes. And from the world of industrial design he moved on to domestic design and back to industrial design, and so on and so forth, with the idea of making good design available to everyone.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2844,2846],"tags":[3261],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hogar","category-espacios-y-vida","tag-iluminacion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18705,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/18705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}