Keiji Takeuchi was born in Fukuoka, Japan, and spent most of his youth in New Zealand. He also made a scholarship study at ENSCI/ Les Ateliers in Paris, France, during his bachelor’s degree in product design in New Zealand. After graduating, he returned to Japan and worked for Naoto Fukasawa. In 2012, he moved to Milan and established his own design office in 2015. The following year, Elle Decor Japan awarded him the Japanese Young Talent Award.

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 approach to design emphasises the essentiality of things, finding ways 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, from heavy-duty industrial design to furniture design and store interiors. Today, he collaborates with many well-regarded brands in various countries and continents, such as Millerknoll group in the US, Fredericia in Denmark, Nine in the UK, Boffi De Padova in Italy, art-directing some brands, 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. During Salone del Mobile 2023, he was invited by Giulio Cappellini to exhibit his work in the “Stars of Today” show at Superstudio. At the Milan Design Week 2024, he orchestrated the ‘Walking Sticks & canes’ exhibition at Triennale Milano. It was Takeuchi’s first curation show, which he conceived and staged. The exhibition was widely appreciated internationally, and it has already been toured at Karimoku Commons Tokyo, Emeco House in Venice, California, Millerknoll archive gallery in Michigan, and Millerknoll gallery in New York. We are planning our next tour in Auckland, New Zealand. Following the success of the show, Takeuchi published ‘Walking Sticks‘ from Lars Müller Publishers in collaboration with Marco Sammicheli ( curator of design, fashion, crafts sector at Triennale Milano and Director of Museo del Design Italiano). In 2025, Takeuchi collaborated with the Norwegian company Hydro to design the Profil lounge chair, which received widespread attention and was shortlisted in the Dezeen Award 2025.

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