Taupe coloured, translucent, curvilinear plastic waste basket with integrated handles and pivoting, removable lid.

"Canadian-educated Karim Rashid, now in New York City, is known for transforming mundane utilitarian products into well-priced organic decorative art. Garbo's sensual curves, skin-like translucent plastic and film star name, reflect Rashid's stylistic interest in the theatrical [...]. Like most Umbra products, Garbo is competitively priced."

After 1998, the manufacturer’s logo was added to the front of the canister.

In 1997 it won a “Good Design” award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. Over a million sold.

‘“You feel in a sense that there is very little there,” says Rashid of his curvilinear and translucent Garbo trash bin, “yet it is so flexible that basically it’s indestructible.”’