It was 1970 when Joe Colombo developed two furnishing projects destined to become timeless icons of Italian design.
These were the Boby storage trolley and the Multichair seating.
Prolific and innovative, the Milanese designer’s intention was to conjugate aesthetics and functionality, creating products that would prove to be practical, multi-purpose, movable and transformable. His concept of modularity, understood to be an invention that takes shape according to designated use and contingent requirements, takes the form of direct interaction with the user, a form reflected in the object itself and that gives it meaning. Likewise, daily living spaces, according to his global vision, become flexible: ambiances in which various activities seamlessly coexist.
The Multichair design perfectly embodies the maximum cross-disciplinarity theme, demonstrating the way in which the multi-faceted combination of two cushions can develop into diverse seating systems, designed to accommodate the various positions of the human body. Hyper-transformable and multi-functional, Multichair comfortably adapts to the most varied ambiances, becoming a simple chair, a conversation chair or one in which to relax. Quizzical and well balanced, its dual soul, serious and pop, is a perfect combination for unconventional or formal contexts.
One of B—Line’s historical re-editions, Multichair is part of the permanent collection of MoMA as well as of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.