Structure in glossy lacquered wood. The first modern mass-produced piece of furniture to which glossy lacquering was applied; a timeless chair, made up of slightly rounded panels. Kazuhide Takahama (Nobeoka, 1930 – Bologna, 10 February 2010) was a Japanese architect and designer. Takahama, born in 1930, studied architecture in Tokyo and after graduation 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 XI Triennale of Milan, where he met the designer and entrepreneur Dino Gavina (1922-2007) with whom he began a professional collaboration. that would last a lifetime. 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. His colleagues said that he was so silent that he was called "the stone man" but his presence was clearly perceptible. Takahama continued to carry out his activity 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 from which to draw inspiration and draw.
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