Kazuhide Takahama (1930–2010) was a Japanese architect and designer who moved to Italy in the late 1950s, working with Dino Gavina and later with firms such as Gavina, Simon, Cassina and Sirrah. His work bridges Japanese formal restraint with Italian industrial craft, yielding rigorously proportioned furniture and lighting—among them the Naeko seating, Marcel tables and a series of refined luminaires. Throughout the 1960s–80s he developed a coherent, architectural vocabulary marked by clarity of line, subtle surfaces and careful attention to light.