Atimont Design

Atimont Design, short for “Atmosphere of Time and Moment”, is the Kyoto studio of Jun Tomita, a first-class licensed architect in Japan with a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art from New York University and one in Architecture from Tokyo Denki University. Born in Kyoto in 1967, he moved to the United States at 19, worked for Emilio Ambasz from 1991 to 1995 and founded atimont design in Tokyo in 1999.

Registered as a first-class architect office in 2001, the studio works across architecture, interior design, product design, branding, graphics and photography around what Tomita calls design innovation by Wa. He taught product design at Kyoto University of the Arts as a professor from 2013 to 2020 and gave The Zen of Japanese Design at Stanford University’s Kyoto Center; his interiors include Genji Kyoto.