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Li Dan
RENOWNED German designer Luigi Colani, who is in Shenzhen to attend the International Cultural Industry Fair (ICIF), was a bit surprised to see a Schimmel/Colani Pegasus grand piano in the city on Saturday afternoon.
THE 1.8-million-yuan (US$230,000) piano, which was designed by him, takes center stage in the lobby of the InterContinental Hotel in the Overseas Chinese Town.
“The Chinese people are keen to pursuit beauty and willing to pay generously for something different, with their purse swelling in a fast growing economy,” he said.
Colani signed his name on his instrument. “I hand carved the Pegasus, a flying horse in the Greek mythology, on top of the piano hood,” he said.
The bright-red piano, one of the only 10 ever produced, incorporates the flowing lines of a Ferrari car in its design. The bench, the cabinet and the pedestal are integrated with each other. It is 311 centimeters long, 162 centimeters wide and 112 centimeters high, and weighs 580 kilograms. High-tech materials and manufacturing techniques similar to those used in the aircraft and automobile industries have been used to create it.
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