Renowned industrial designer Joe Colombo's Tube Chair has been rescued from "the pages of design books" by Italian furniture brand Cappellini, which is rereleasing the piece.
Originally produced by Flexform in 1969, the chair has an ultramodern design and flexible modular construction that led Cappellini to see a place for it in contemporary interiors.
"I didn't want a piece of this importance to remain only on the pages of design books," said creative director Giulio Cappellini. "Instead I wanted it to still be purchased and used today."
"Even though it's been a long time since it's initial design, it continues to preserve its freshness and contemporaneity."
The original design features in the permanent collections at La Triennale di Milano, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and MoMA. Photograph by Flickr user Michael Fludkov The Tube Chair, which is held in museum collections across the world, features four tubes of varied diameter. Held together with metal hooks, these tubes make up the seat, leg rest, back support and head rest.

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The chair is designed to be assembled in different configurations to suit the user's needs, and the cylinders can be slotted inside one another to save space.
Born in 1930 in Milan, Colombo became one of the most influential designers of the 20th century, creating products for brands including Oluce, Kartell, Bi...