Elena Colombo is a classically trained sculptor & architectural
designer, who owns and operates Colombo Construction
Corp, a design/build firm specializing in custom, site
specific work: fire, water, and wind features, memorials,
markers, and environmental sculpture; as well as product
design and manufacturing.
Colombo creates work that extends the realm of architecture
further into the landscape by createing forms that are
simple, elegant, modern as well as ancient, which address
our primal need for the elements earth, fire, water and wind.
Elena works in bronze, steel, stone, concrete and bone.
Colombo is currently manufacturing a series of interior and
exterior fire features, the first of which is the outdoor firebowls.
The standard four to six-foot diameter bowls are fitted
with a 150,000 or 300,000 BTU burner, a connection for
propane or natural gas, and a manual pilot ignition system
for safe and controlled ignition.
“I am ever inspired by the elemental nature of fire, and the
primal need we have for it. Fire serves both our need for
beauty and our instinct to gather around a warm lighted
place; it is a destination wherever it burns. For 600,000 years
we have shared food, stories, and experiences around the
fire; during the last hundred, we seem to have abandoned
the hearth as the focus of community. I would like to restore
the hearth as a ceremonial place and as a point of convergence.”
Among Colombo’s early clients are hotelier Andre Balazs,
who commissioned firebowls for the cocktail terrace at Sunset
Beach, his Shelter Island hotel, for his private residence
in New York, for the Raleigh and Standard Hotels in Miami
Beach, and his new Standard Hotel in Manhattan. Firebowls
have also been installed at The Lodge at Cordillera; Jonathan
Adler’s Parker Palm Springs; The Pebble Beach Golf Resort,
Marmol Radziner Prefab Prototype house in Desert Springs; the
landmark Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood; Paul Hobbs Winery,
Sebastopol; Press Restaurant, St. Clement Vineyards, Benzinger
Vineyards and Alpha Omega Winery in Napa Valley; as well as
with Lisa Marie Presley and Anne Rice.
Colombo’s Firebowl has been nominated as ‘Best Outdoor
Product’ by the 2004 Design and Decoration Awards, was the
featured center piece in horticulturalist Jamie Durie’s gold
medal winning garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show; and
has recently been nationally certified by OMNI-TEST Laboratories
Inc.
Prior to opening her company, Colombo worked extensively
in print and television media as a director of award winning
television commercials and print campaigns for Proctor and
Gamble, IBM, Kellogg’s, Spalding, Oil of Olay, Chevy, Mattel,
Caterpillar, and Nintendo.
After graduating from college, Elena began work at Broadcast
Arts in model design and production on the set of Pee Wee’s
Playhouse, learning storyboard production, animation, special
effects rigging and art direction. She continued working in this
design capacity for Woo Art International, MTV and VH1.
Education: Elena graduated from Trinity College, Hartford CT
in 1984 with a BA in both fine arts and art history, with a
concentration in architectural design, sculpture and etching.
While at Trinity, she spent a year abroad in Rome at the Caesar
Barbieri Center to study sculpture, painting and the Italian
Renaissance. Elena continued her education in the arts at the
Museum School in Boston, Mass.
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