Tube Chair

The Tube chair is an iconic seating design by Joe Colombo that char­ac­ter­izes the inter­sec­tion of several preva­lent design move­ments asso­ci­ated with the 1960s – Radical, Pop, and Anti-Design. Orig­i­nally produced by Flex­form, the Tube chair has been out of produc­tion for years and is included in the perma­nent collec­tions of numer­ous museums world­wide. The chair’s form is remark­ably simple. It features four modular cylin­ders that vary in diam­e­ter; each will nest inside each other for easy trans­port and storage. By employ­ing a group of six uniquely designed clips, the user can essen­tially ​“lock” the Tube chair’s cylin­ders together in several ways to ulti­mately create differ­ent seating forms.