IF Design Award 2003 (LC-37BD5, LC-22BV5) IF Design Award 2002 (C1 series, B1 series) SMAU Design Award 2002 (C1 series) Good Design Award Gold Prize 2003 (LC-37BT1) Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 2001 (LC-28HD1) Museum fr Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg 2001 (C1 series) Staatliches Museum fr Kunst und Design, Nrnberg 2001 (C1 series)

For over 30 years Toshiyuki Kita has divided his working time between Japan and Italy, while combining – in the design of a piece of furniture, an object or a space – the cultures and stimuli of both countries. Countries separated by a distance that for him is only a matter of geography. Winner of many industrial design awards, creator of genuine bestsellers shown in museums all over the world, Kita accompanies research on new materials and typologies for useful objects with a recovery of the ancient traditions of his country, reinterpreting the lesson of Japanese crafts: that of giving a soul to objects and their design.