Luigi Colani in front of his BMW 700 in the exhibition "COLANI – Das Lebenswerk" (Karlsruhe) in 2004
Born
Lutz Colani
(1928-08-02)2 August 1928
Berlin, Germany
Died
16 September 2019(2019-09-16) (aged 91)
Karlsruhe, Germany
Occupation
Engineer
Colani in 2013 at the trade fair IFA Berlin in Germany.
Luigi Colani (born Lutz Colani 2 August 1928 – 16 September 2019)[1] was a German industrial designer.
His long career began in the 1950s when he designed cars for companies including Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Volkswagen, and BMW. In 1957, he dropped his first name Lutz using the name Luigi. In the 1960s, he began designing furniture, and as of the 1970s, he expanded in numerous areas, ranging from household items such as ballpoint pens and television sets to uniforms and trucks and entire kitchens. A striking grand piano created by Colani, the Pegasus, is manufactured and sold by the Schimmel piano company.
His unconventional designs made him famous, not only in design circles, but also to the general public. He received numerous design awards, although his unconventional approach left him largely an outsider from the mainstream of industrial design.[2]
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