Toshiyuki Kita

Toshiyuki Kita (喜多 俊之, born 1942) is a furniture and product designer born and educated in the Japanese city of Osaka. He has established design offices in both Japan and Italy. His earliest pieces, the Wink Chair and the Kick Table are currently in the permanent collections of the New York City Museum of Modern Art and Hamburg, Germany's Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe. His most notable recent works include Sharp's Aquos line of LCD televisions and the K10 Dodo recliner

The Dodo Recliner, one of Kita's more recent funiture designs, is distributed by Cassina of Italy.

He has also done a considerable amount of work with massage chair manufacturers Family Inada.

External links

• Official site of Toshiyuki Kita