Design and
Engineering
Bombo - presented for the first time in 1996 - is an object which has since become
part of the collective imagination as the contemporary stool par excellence.
The dominant feature of Bombo is the injection-moulded ABS seat, which is
height-adjustable thanks to a gas piston and available in four colours or polished.
A few years later, in 2002, Al Bombo was launched. Equal in shape and size, it
differs from Bombo for the material. This version has base, footrest and handle in
stainless steel and the seat in polished die cast aluminium.
Today this stool is an icon, a style pioneer. Ultra-copied and ultra-imitated. Yet Bom-
bo is still Bombo. Its copies are another story, another chapter which is not a chap-
ter on creativity and design.
