Pair of Rennie chairs by Kazuhide Takahama for Simon Gavina, 1970s. Structure in lacquered wood and upholstery in yellow ocher velvet. Very good condition with small and inevitable signs of age and use on the lacquered parts.
Kazuhide Takahama (Nobeoka, 1930 – Bologna, 2010) was a Japanese architect and designer. He studied architecture in Tokyo and after graduation he joined Kazuo Fujioka's studio. In 1957 he came to Italy to take care of the architectural layout of the pavilion with which Japan participated for the first time in the then lasted his whole life. In 1964 he then moved to Bologna and went to work as a furniture and lamp designer at the San Lazzaro factory. In these new locations Takahama had the opportunity to collaborate with the famous architect and designer Carlo Scarpa and in the following years he carried out an intense professional activity which led to the creation of furniture and lamps of various types, which still constitute as many works of art today, always characterized with great simplicity and formal cleanliness and very often rigorous like Zen compositions. Takahama continued to work as a designer until his death in 2010.
SIMON was born in 1968 from the meeting of Dino Gavina and Maria Simoncini with some of the major representatives of modern architecture and art. In this entrepreneurial adventure all the cultural experiences and productive testimonies come together which have given life to a cult collection for design lovers. Today these furnishing objects, synonymous with an industrial activity that has been able to become a vehicle for cultural promotion, represent classics, because they are custodians of timeless values to inspire and inspire.
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