Colani Drumbo Elpehant

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SoyBoy

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21/04/2010 7:01 am

Greetings,

I've seen these Elephant money boxes for Dresdner Bank, 1963, credited to designer Luigi Colani. Has anyone out there seen written documention on this other than what is posted on Ebay?

I've attached a link below to a current Ebay auction.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Luigi-Colani-elephant-moneybox-60s-design-Small-Yellow-/390181621661?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5ad8a30f9d

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fastfwd

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21/04/2010 7:29 am

A few years ago, colani.jp asked Professor Colani.
He said no, it wasn't his design.
The story's here if you can read Japanese:
http://www.colani.jp/TheColaniLine/yesorno/Dresdner/yesorno1.htm
or here, automatically translated to English, if you can't (note that the "Koranidezain" in the translation is "Colani Design"):
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//www.colani.jp/TheColani...|en&tbb=1&ie=Shift_JIS

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fastfwd

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21/04/2010 7:39 am

And...
The Colani Design Museum (colani.org) has photos of thousands of Colani's designs. The Drumbo elephant isn't in there; the only elephant pictured is this one:
http://www.colani.org

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