KEIJI TAKEUCHI

 

 

 

 

Address:
Via Giuseppe Ripamonti 15,
20136 Milan, Italy

TEL:   +39 02 366 96624
DESIGNER

 

 

 

 

Keiji Takeuchi

He was born in Fukuoka, Japan, and spent most of his youth in New Zealand. After completing a bachelor's degree in product design, he returned to Japan, where he worked for Naoto Fukasawa. In 2012, he moved to Milan and established his own design office in 2015. Elle Decor Japan awarded him the Japanese Young Talent Award the following year.

Takeuchi's life approach is highly international, and his vision for design naturally reflects his multicultural personality. He can see things from diverse angles, and his way of approaching design emphasises the essentiality of things, where he finds his way to improve the nature of products in the simplest yet most human way. Furthermore, his design creates a spontaneous dialogue between objects and our daily lives. His approach to design is borderless and appreciated by diverse brands in different fields. Today, he collaborates with many well-regarded brands in various countries and continents, such as Millerknoll in the US, Fredericia in Denmark, Nine in the UK, Boffi De Padova in Italy, Art directing a brand aru, and collaborating with Karimoku in Japan, to name a few. He also participated in the "Social seating”, an open-air project during the 1st Fiskars Art and Design Biennale 2019. He exhibited his work in the "Stars of Today" show at the Superstudio during Salone del Mobile 2023.

Major awards:
2021 Archiprodcuts Design Awards :Ripamonti for De Padova
2020 ADI INDEX Living Divani Light with a table was awarded under Design for living category.
2020 Good Design Award: A.T.S for E'interiors
2018 EDIDA Boffi Floe washbasin receievd the Best in bathroom category by Elle Deco Japan.
2016 EDIDA Young Japanese Talent by Elle Deco Japan.
1999 New Zealand Best Design Award: Best student of the year.

Educational activities:

2022-2023 External lecturer at NABA in Milan, Italy.
2021     Jury member for the master product design program at ECAL in Switzerland.
2020     Design talk at Milano Triennale
2019     Design workshop for bachelor in product design, Lasalle College of the Art, Singapore
2019     Jury member for Singapore Design Award
2018     Jury member for Singapore Design Award
2018     Jury member for the master product design program at ECAL in Switzerland.
2018     Jury member for Identity Design Award in Dubai.