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Isamu Kenmochi (剣持勇) is a Japanese designer. He is one of the initiators of industrial design in his country.

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Biography.

Noguchi and Kenmochi first met in Kenzo Tange's Tokyo University office in They worked together on a series of furniture projects of unusual design.

He adapted foreign manufacturing methods and took advantage of technologies advances that he had observed during his international trips. He thus shaped a two-faced Japanese modern design where a reasonable production coexists in harmony with traditional crafts.

Public and private spaces : a career devoted to Japanese design

He graduated from the Industrial Arts Institute (IAI) in Tokyo in 1932 and continued his studies at the Sendai one.

During the World War II he developed plywood applications in aeronautics field, but Japan went down to defeat and the American supremacy was settled on their territory. Isamu Kenmochi took part of the reconstruction, both theoretically and materially : he worked on the government’s policy of standardisation and promoted the development of furniture as a fully-fledged industrial sector.

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