GAE, Kazuhide Takahama, Gavina, 1960 circa

Set di 6 sedie Gaja, Kazuhide Takahama, Cassina, 1974 Circa. Kazuhide Takahama's Set of 6 Gaja Chairs, designed for Cassina in 1974, epitomizes timeless sop...

Set of 2 Chairs Cesca, Marcel Breuer, Gavina, 1970. The Set of 2 Cesca Chairs, designed by Marcel Breuer in 1970 for Gavina, epitomizes modernist elegan...

Low coffee table, Levogiro model designed by Paolo Portoghesi for Poltronova, original 1960s Circa, perfect for contemporary and unique interiors

The "Orsay" low coffee table by Gae Aulenti for Knoll is a design icon that combines elegance and functionality in an extraordinary way. This piece of furniture was created by the fa...

It is 1962, a young architect named Gae Aulenti begins a fruitful dialogue with Poltronova, an innovative company founded in 1957 in the Tuscan countryside. Poltronova had the artist...

Armchair 54, Gae Aulenti, Knoll International. This piece is attributed to the designer/manufacturer shown above. It has no attribution mark Mid-Century Style, Modern Italian, Moder...

Coffee table produced by Gavina in the 1960s, designed by Kazuhide Takahama, model "Acca". Wood veneered frame. Glass top with corners cut at 45°. The peculiarity of the table are it...

Gea side table designed in 1961 by Japanese architect and designer Kazuhide Takahama for Gavina, Italy. Laminated wood with red lacquered.

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 ...

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...

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, ...

This black laquered table by Kazuhide Takahama can be used as a dining table or folded down to a demi lune shaped console table.