Simone Sofa by Kazuhide Takahama for Simon, 1970s

In black lacquered wood, sage colored corduroy covering. CONDITION: very good with small and inevitable signs of age and use, padding and cushion covering completely renewed. Kazuhid...

Structure in glossy lacquered wood. The first standard modern piece of furniture on which the glossy lacquer was applied; a timeless chair, composed of slightly rounded panels. Kazu...

Set of 2;Saghi lounge chairs designed by Kazuhide Takahama for Simon Gavina in 1970s. The frames are made of solid bent steel chromed, upholstered ...

This demi lune console table, designed by Kazuhide Takahama in 1975 for Simon, cn be transformed in an elliptical dining table.. Its essential design makes Antella a timeless class...

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...

Kazuhide Takahama - Nobeoka 1930 - Bologna 2010 - was a Japanese architect and designer.
 Takahama, born in 1930, he studied architecture in Tokyo and after graduating he joined the ...

The Mantilla sofa suits the space it fits in and is designed as such. With changeable cove, it can be dressed up and easily undressed if it gets dirty, every day in a different cloak...

Mantilla sofa by Kazuhide Takahama for Simon Gavina. The Mantilla's name comes from the mantle which covers it. The idea comes from the memory of protecting the furniture of holiday ...

Beautiful and rare Takahama Kazuhide sofa manufactured in Italy by Simon in 1960s. In very good vintage condition.

The success of lacquered models has slowly invested the world market, adding another medal to the history of Italian design. It was in this fervor (we came to 1970) that the Sofa wa...

Divano Siviglia è stato disegnato da Kazuhide Takahama per Studio Simon nel 1976. Il divano è realizzato con imbottitura in espanso sagomato e il rivestimento in tessuto sfoderabile,...

Two-seater “Mantilla” sofa, designed by Kazuhide Takahama for Studio Simon in 1973. It is made of wood and polyurethane foam structure, with white velvet upholstery. Kazuhide T...