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A floor lamp from the Kazuki series. Chrome-plated metal,…

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KATZUIDE TAKAHAMA A floor lamp from the Kazuki series. Chrome-plated metal, fabric. Sirrah production, Italy late 1970s. 160x55x40 cm. A FLOOR LAMPS BY K. TAKAHAMA Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio del design italiano per l'arredamento domestico, 1950-2000, Allemandi, Turin, 2003, p. 245 Very good condition. Rows, signs of wear, very slight and negligible halos.

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KATZUIDE TAKAHAMA A floor lamp from the Kazuki series. Chrome-plated metal, fabric. Sirrah production, Italy late 1970s. 160x55x40 cm. A FLOOR LAMPS BY K. TAKAHAMA Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio del design italiano per l'arredamento domestico, 1950-2000, Allemandi, Turin, 2003, p. 245 Very good condition. Rows, signs of wear, very slight and negligible halos.

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KAZUHIDE TAKAHAMA (Nobeoka-Japan, 1930 - Bologna, 2010) for Sirrah. Floor lamp "Sirio T". Italy, ca. 1977. Metal. It has dimmer or dimmer. Measurements: 186 x 45 x 36 cm. Halogen floor lamp designed by Kazuhide Takahama and produced by Sirrah around 1977. Faithful exponent of the formal equlibrium and simplicity of the works of the Japanese designer. The lamp is equipped with a dimmer switch. Settled in Italy since the late 1950s, Takahama collaborated closely with leading firms, becoming one of the main promoters of Italian design. Kazuhide Takahama Japanese architect and designer. Born in 1930, he studied architecture in Tokyo and after graduating he joined Kazuo Fujioka's studio. In 1957 he went 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 businessman Dino Gavina (1922-2007) with whom he began a professional collaboration that would last a lifetime. Consequently, in 1964 he moved to Bologna and went to work as a designer of furniture and lamps in the factory of San Lazzaro.in 1968 Gavina sold his company Gavina SPA to Knoll International, with its Foligno plant designed by Achille Castiglioni , and founded together with Maria Simoncini (1927-2010) the manufacturer Simon International (later acquired by Cassina ) and a year later the exhibition and commercial center bearing the name of Marcel Duchamp was inaugurated in Bologna with the participation of the famous Dadaist painter and photographer Man Ray .In these new offices, Takahama was able to collaborate with the famous architect and designer Carlo Scarpa and in the following years he developed an intense professional activity that led him to the creation of various types of furniture and lamps, which still constitute so many works of art, always characterized by a great simplicity and formal cleanliness and very often rigorous as Zen compositions.His colleagues said he was so quiet that they called him "the man of stone", but his presence was clearly perceptible.Takahama continued to develop his activity as a designer until his death in 2010.

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