Serralunga - Carlo Colombo - Vase - Columbus's Egg - Plastic

Vaso Uovo di Colombo produced by Serralunga. Italian design.

Always at the forefront, Serralunga makes even a simple planter decorative, elevating it as an aesthetic object that becomes the protagonist in outdoor spaces. Uovo di Colombo, focuses on essentiality and formal purity, in the style of its creator Carlo Colombo. Made of polyethylene, it showcases a simple yet striking line, both in the illuminated variant and in the plain version.

Carlo Colombo was born in 1967 in Carimate. In 1993 he graduated in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano, but already in 1991 he came into contact with Giulio Cappellini, for whom he designed his first piece in 1992: the Kyoto bed, presented at the Milan Furniture Fair of the same year.
From this moment Colombo's work as a designer has materialized in hundreds of projects in collaboration with leading companies in the sector: Antonio Lupi, Arflex, Artemide, BYografia, Cappellini, DePadova, Emmemobili, EMU, F.lli Guzzini, Flou, Franke, Fusital, iGuzzini, IOC, Paola Lenti, Levi's, Mood-Flexform, Moroso, Nube, Oluce, Penta, Poliform, Poltrona Frau, Riva 1920, Rugiano, Sabattini, Serralunga, Tecno, Teuco, Varenna, Zanotta.
In 2004 Colombo was named Designer of the Year in Tokyo. Between 2005 and 2011 he received four times the International Design Award from Elle Décor and won awards for his projects from Gioia Casa and MD Magazine. In 2009 he was one of the winners of the Good Design Award presented by the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum. A sort of ambassador of Italian design to the world, he gives lectures and conferences in Israel, Greece, Portugal,
Slovenia, Ukraine, Australia, Russia, Great Britain, Brazil and China.
In addition to product and furniture design, Colombo works on commercial promotion and marketing for companies, does graphic design, curates exhibitions, works as a consultant and art director (since 2006 for Arflex and since 2008 for Stratex). The entrepreneurs were among the first clients of the houses he designed, but they soon commissioned showrooms, retail spaces and production facilities, such as the Poliform Lab opened in 2011 in the heart of Brianza. Colombo's activity as a designer, initially focused on product and interior design, gradually expanded to the field of construction in Italy and abroad. In 2009 he won an international competition for the design of two multifunction towers in Abu Dhabi, and his renewed interest in architecture found space in teaching in China, where since 2011 he has taught design at the De Tao Masters Academy in Beijing.