Sugar Bowl
Designer Porcelain
From the DROP RANGE
designed by Luigi Colani
for Rosenthal AG (manufacturer)
a very rare piece,
part of the exclusive
Studio-linie range
Vintage porcelain of the 1970s
One SUGAR BOWL in excellent condition
(the underneath stamp is not scratched)
Note: There is a SUGAR BOWL and a CREAMER in the DROP range and they are very similar, though one is slightly longer and wider than the other:
10L x7½W x5cm high (4"x3"x2")
This item
for sale is the larger
of the two, which
is the Sugar Bowl:
Length: 13½cm.
Width: 9¼cm
Height: 6½cm
Weight=145g (see photos)
This bowl could easily be used as a creamer (or for milk).
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This rare and beautiful “DROP” range Sugar Bowl was designed by Luigi Colani for the Rosenthal Studio-lline range of white porcelain tableware. The backstamp has NOT been scratched. The glaze looks excellent and there are no cracks, chips, discoloration or rust spots etc that I can see in it. It is in excellent condition and has a nice ring to it. The milk jug/sugar bowl has not been used but has rested in storage since it was bought c1972.
About Luigi Colani
He was born in 1928 and he is a German industrial designer of kurdish descent.
His unconventional designs have made him famous, not only in design circles, but also to the general public. He has received numerous design awards.
However, Colani’s 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.