Black lacquered wood, sage-coloured corduroy upholstery. Very good condition with small, inevitable signs of age and use, cushion upholstery and cover completely renewed. Kazuhide Takahama (Nobeoka 1930 - Bologna 2010) was a Japanese architect and designer. Takahama, born in 1930, studied architecture in Tokyo and after graduating joined Kazuo Fujioka's studio. In 1957, he came to Italy to oversee the architectural design of the pavilion with which Japan participated for the first time in the 11th Milan Triennale, where he met designer and entrepreneur Dino Gavina (1922-2007) with whom he began a lifelong professional collaboration. Consequently, he moved to Bologna in 1964 and went to work as a furniture and lamp designer in the San Lazzaro factory. In this new location, 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 that led to the creation of furniture and lamps of various types, which still today constitute works of art, always characterised by great simplicity and formal cleanliness and very often as rigorous as 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 greatest representatives of architecture and modern art. In this entrepreneurial adventure, all the cultural experiences and production testimonies converged to create 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 repositories of timeless values from which to draw inspiration and draw on.
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