He has received numerous design awards. However, Colanis unconventional designs have left him largely as an outsider from the mainstream of industrial designers and German designers consider him to be the "enfant terrible". But whilst some totally reject him, others are enthusiastic about his revolutionary deigns, for which he is always looking for new radical solutions. His long career began in the 1950s when he designed cars for companies such as Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Volkswagen, BMW, Boeing, Canon, Thyssen and even NASA.
From the 1960s, he began designing furniture, and in 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. From 1970 to 1972 Colani worked for Roenthal and created the award-winning tea service Drop as part of the Roenthal Studio-lline range. The Drop design won him the Gute Indutrieform award in 1972 and was included in the permanent collection of the Centre George Pompidou, Paris, as an example for contemporary design. The item "DROP Tea Pot by Luigi Colani for Rosenthal Studio-linie porcelain vintage 1970s" is in sale since Saturday, June 16, 2018. This item is in the category "Pottery, Porcelain & Glass\Pottery\Rosenthal".The seller is "hello*hello" and is located in East Grinstead. This item can be shipped to United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Australia, United States, Canada, Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, China, Israel, Hong Kong, Norway, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Bolivia, Barbados, Brunei darussalam, Cayman islands, Ecuador, Egypt, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, French guiana, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Macao, Monaco, Maldives, Martinique, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Paraguay, Reunion, Saudi arabia, South africa, United arab emirates, Ukraine, Chile.