
Jonah Takagi on Media as the Place Where the Practical Meets the Personal
The furniture designer’s content intake includes Japanese tube amplifier magazines, Charles Gwathmey architecture books, and the Starz sitcom “Party Down.”
By Emily Jiang
March 10, 2023
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Jonah Takagi comes across as laid-back and casual, but the truth is, he keeps pretty busy. The bulk of his time is split between New York City, where he runs his namesake design studio, and Providence, Rhode Island, where he teaches a Herman Miller–inspired furniture design course at the Rhode Island School of Design. When he’s not designing or teaching, he’s up in the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains, developing a newly acquired plot of land, or back at home in Brooklyn, engineering his own tube amplifiers and other hi-fi audio equipment.
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