Takahide Sano was born in Tokyo on 06/02/1958. After taking his certificate in Industrial Design (1976), he worked at Toshiba Design Center (1976-1988) specializing in audio-video and TV design both for Japanese and overseas market.In 1988 he came to Italy and started working as a free-lance designer. In 1988-1989 he worked at Studio Bonetto and since then heco-operates with the artist-designer Marcello Morandini. In 1990 he founded his own design studio, Studio SANO. Beside the activity of industrial designer, since 1980 he's been cooperating with Art Gallery Unac Tokyo, for which he still designs settings for museum exhibitions in different countries in the world.
Since the beginning of Studio Sano activity he designed a wide range of products for Italian and foreign manufacturers, among which: AGFA, Alfi, Epson, Honda R & D Europe, Seiko, WMF, Covo, Sottsass Associati.