Luigi Colani: from nature to design

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The Design Museum in London opens a window onto the fantastic world of Luigi Colani, showing famous large scale prototypes of cars, boats, lorries and aircraft. Born in 1928 in Berlin, after completing his artistic studies Colani went on to study aerodynamics and began his career working in the automobile sector, designing revolutionary bodywork for the Simca in 1953, made entirely in plastic. Since then, his brilliant inventions, spectacular sculptures of biomorphic forms borrowed from nature with aerodynamic lines, have for six decades offered futuristic ideas to apply to a range of fields, from transport to architecture and design. Still today, Colani continues to work on his visions in his studio at Karlsruhe (a city that has also dedicated a museum to him) whilst the influence of his organic designs can be seen in the work of a number of leading contemporary designers such as Ross Lovegrove and Future Systems. The retrospective, curated by Albrecht Bangert, has been designed by Nigel Coates. E.S.

3.3.2007 – 17.6.2007
Luigi Colani – Translating Nature
Design Museum
Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD
T +44-0870-8339955 http://www.designmuseum.org

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Luigi Colani: from nature to design

The Design Museum in London opens a window onto the fantastic world of Luigi Colani, showing famous large scale prototypes of cars, boats, lorries and aircraft.

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