Kazuhide Takahama Side Tables

The two rotating flexible side tables, model GEA, made of white lacquered plywood, were designed by Kazuhide Takahama in 1961. They can act as side tables as well as bedside tables, ...

Swivel side table Gea model by Kazuhide Takahama for Gavina 1960s-1970s. Cylindrical base on which the bedside table is inserted with a pivot that favors its rotation. Kazuhide Takahama (Nobeoka, 1930 - Bologna, February 10, 2010 [1]) was a Japanese architect and designer. Born in 1930, he studied architecture in Tokyo and after graduation joined the studio of Kazuo Fujioka. In 1957 he came to Italy to supervise the architectural layout of the pavilion with which Japan participated for the first time in the XI Triennale di Milano, where he met the designer and entrepreneur Dino Gavina (1922-2007) with whom he undertook a professional collaboration that it would last a lifetime. Consequently in 1964 he moved to Bologna and went to work as a furniture and lamp designer in the San Lazzaro factory. In 1968 Gavina sold his company Gavina SPA to Knoll International, with the related factory in Foligno designed by Achille Castiglioni, and together with Maria Simoncini (1927-2010) founded the Simon international manufacturer (later acquired by Cassina) and the year later the exhibition and commercial center named after Marcel Duchamp opened in Bologna with the participation of the famous Dadaist painter and photographer Man Ray. In these new locations, Takahama was able 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, characterized always with great simplicity and formal cleanliness and very often rigorous like Zen compositions. His colleagues said that he was so silent as to be called "the man of stone" but his presence was clearly perceptible. Takahama continued to carry out his activity as a designer until his death in 2010. Gavina Spa was founded by Dino Gavina in 1960, who assumed the role of managing director and called the architect Carlo Scarpa to the presidency. The historic headquarters of the company are located in San Lazzaro di Savena, in a building designed by Pier Giacomo Castiglioni in 1959. In 1963, thanks to state incentives for the development of southern Italy, Dino Gavina opened an office in Foligno. In 1962 Dino Gavina met Marcel Breuer in New York and convinced him to re-edit and realize his projects from the 1920s. Among the designers who worked for the company: Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Achille Castiglioni, Carlo Scarpa, Ignazio Gardella, Tobia Shoe. After the sale of the American company Knoll in 1968 and the closure of the Bolognese brand, several products of the Gavina collection were sold under the Knoll brand; some of them were later sold to other manufacturers (such as the Sanluca armchair...

Coppia di tavolini rotanti flessibili, modello GEA, realizzati in compensato laccato bianco, sono stati disegnati da Kazuhide Takahama nel 1961. Possono fungere sia da tavolini che d...

Kazuhide Takahama (Nobeoka, 1930 - Bologna, February 10, 2010 [1]) was a Japanese architect and designer.

Born in 1930, he studied architecture in Tokyo and after graduation joined ...

GAE coffee table, designed circa 1961, Gavina production. Describing this table is no easy task, as with any of Takahama's extremely minimal yet decorative and complex designs. White lacquered wood...

Pair of black lacquered wooden bedside tables/tables Mod. 'Gea' designed by Kazuide Takahama for Simo Gavina in Italy in 1961.

Pair of side table or nightstands, Gea model, designed by Kazuhide Takahama for Gavina 1960s. Sculptural bentwood form. Condition is very good also because they have been relaquered...

Italian modern Red lacquered wooden bedside table by Takahama for Gavina, 1970s Bedside table in red lacquered wood. The night stands has two rectangular shelves with rounded corner...

Side table model 'GEA' laminated wood, black lacquered. Dimension / L. 54 cm W. 42 cm H. 52cm. Design / Kazuhide Takahama 1961 Manufacturer Gavina Italy Takahama is best know...

Pair of side table or nightstands, Gea model, designed by Kazuhide Takahama for Gavina 1960s. Sculptural bentwood form. Condition is very good with Wear consistent with age and u...

Side table model 'GEA' laminated wood, white lacquered Dimension / L. 54 cm W. 42 cm H. 52cm Design / Kazuhide Takahama 1961 Manufacturer Gavina Italy. Takahama is best known as a...

Two side table, model 'GEA' made of white lacquered layered wood Dimensions: W 54cm, D 42cm, H 53cm Design / Kazuhide Takahama Manufacturer / Gavina, Italy, 1961 cf. Repertorio, Gramigna, Arnoldo Mandadori. fig. p. 174. Kazuhide Takahama (1930 – 2010) is best known as a furniture and lighting designer, and has produced work for Knoll, Gavina, and B&B Italia. After graduating from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1953, Kazuhide Takahama designed the Japanese Pavilion for the Milan Triennale. On this occasion Takahama got to know Dino Gavina, who invited him to design for his design company, Gavina SpA. Over the next decade, Takahama introduced several designs through Gavina, including a knocked-down storage unit called DaDa and a semi-circular shelving...