Twelve Kitchen

Carlo Colombo was born in 1967 at Carimate in Italy. In 1993 he graduated in Architecture from the Milan Polytechnic, but by 1991 he had already made contact with Giulio Cappellini, for whom he designed his first piece in 1992: the Kyoto bed. This was then presented at the Salone del Mobile in Milan the same year.

From this time on, Colombo’s work as a designer flowed into hundreds of projects in collaboration with the leading firms, including: Arflex, Artemide, DePadova, Paola Lenti, Levi’s, Moroso, Nube, Poliform, Poltrona Frau, Serralunga, Varenna and Zanotta. In 2004 Colombo was named Designer of the Year in Tokyo and between 2005 and 2011 he received the International Design Award four times from Elle Décor and won prizes for his projects from Gioia Casa and MD Magazine.

Apart from product and furniture design, Colombo undertakes business and marketing promotion for companies, works on graphic design, curates exhibitions, works as consultant and art director (since 2006 for Arflex and since 2008 for Stratex).