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1942 - Born
in Osaka Japan; 1964 - Graduated in Industrial Design from Naniwa
College; 1969 - Began to work in Italy (Milan) and Japan; 1975 - Won
the Japan interior Designers Association Award, Japan; 1981 - Won the
9th Kitaro Kunii Industrial Design Award, Japan; 1983 - Won the Product
Design Award from the Institute of Business Designers and Contract
Magazine USA; 1987 - Participated in the 10th Anniversary Celebrations
at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; 1990 - Won the Delta de
Oro Award, Spain; 1992 - Designed the chairs and interior for the
rotating theatre at the Japanese Pavilion Expo’ 92, Seville,
Spain; Member of the Jury for DELTA ADI FAD, Spain; 1993 - Selected for
TOP TEN, Koln, Germany; President of the Jury at an International
Design Competition in Osaka, Japan; 1995 - President of the Jury at the
Good Design Products System, Japan; Member of the Jury in the EIMU
design competition in Milan; 1997 - “Multi Lingual Chair”
is selected fo the permanent collections of the Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris; 1998 - Member of the Jury of the Pro Finnish Design
Competition, Helsinki; 1999 - Fourteen pieces are selected for the
permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Saint-Etienne,
France; Exhibition in Helsinki; 2000 - Exhibition at the Museum fur
Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Germany; 2001 - Exhibition "L’anima
del design" in Milan; "Wide 28-inch LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY TV" and
"WINK" (chair) selected for the permanent collection of the Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris; 2002 - Exhibition in Paris; Exhibition in
Nagoya, Japan Toshiyuki Kita is an active, internationally respected
environment, interior and product designer. He is also involved with
traditional Japanese craft design. Three pieces of his work have been
selected as part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern
Art in New York. Products designed by Toshiyuki Kita for Zeritalia: NOBI table, AO, PO, ZO e KOKO TV-Stand for plasma and
LCD-TV, KOMA and TORI traditional TV-trolley, HOME-CINEMA the TV-Stand for projection. |
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