Ryota Yokozeki

Ryota Yokozeki is a Japanese industrial designer based in Tokyo. His sensitive approach to design is nurtured by observing everyday gestures, materials, and atmospheres. Born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, in 1985, he graduated from the Product Design department of Kanazawa College of Art in 2008 before joining Sony's Creative Center, where he worked for nearly ten years as an industrial designer.

This experience at Sony shaped his understanding of precision, technical constraints, and large-scale design. Concurrently, Ryota Yokozeki pursued his personal research and participated in several international exhibitions, notably in Milan. In 2016, his creation, the Aizome Chair, became part of the permanent collection of the Vitra Design Museum, a major recognition of his experimental work and formal vision.

In 2017, he founded Ryota Yokozeki Studio, where he develops furniture, home appliance, lifestyle object, and creative direction projects for Japanese and international brands. His work explores how a form can transform an experience: making an object more familiar, more poetic, more intuitive, while maintaining great functional accuracy.

Deeply influenced by Japanese culture, Ryota Yokozeki is interested in the relationship between surface, volume, and transformation. Origami, which he has known since childhood, particularly inspires his design approach: creating a three-dimensional form from a flat plane, with a logic that is at once simple, precise, and expressive.

Awarded several international accolades, including the iF Design Award and the Good Design Award, Ryota Yokozeki embodies a contemporary vision of Japanese design. His creations translate light, texture, and atmosphere into silent, delicate, and functional objects capable of bringing a subtle and deeply poetic presence to a space.

Pieces designed by Ryota Yokozeki