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Bookcase | Prototype

Yasuhiko Itoh, 1959 - 2016

A prototype of a curved wood bookcase, which was complex workmanship for the time. was designed by Japanese designer Yasuhiko ltoh and never put into production. To make the prototype, ltoh spent severa I months in Giussano. working closely with craftspeo­ple. Unveiled in 1959 with a chaise longue, at the third "Mostra Selettiva - Concorso Internazionale del Mobi­le" in Cantù. the bookcase prototype won third piace.

Design Yasuhiko Itoh, 1959 - 2016

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Awards


1959 Selettiva di Cantù, Third Prize

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Yasuhiko Itoh

Itoh, born in 1933, studied at Waseda University, and he then spent several months in Molteni’s production department working with the Molteni experts.

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Yasuhiko Itoh

“The Japanese and Italian cultures are similar in their love towards wood and its artefacts in all shapes and forms”

Yasuhiko Itoh