Erina Caldeira

Erina Caldeira is a product designer born in Japan and working between Tokyo and Copenhagen. She graduated in 2013 from the craft and industrial design department of Musashino Art University and spent six years at the household goods company Marna, planning and designing everyday objects, before moving to Denmark in 2020 to study design and intern at the Copenhagen studio Aspekt Office.

She founded Erina Caldeira Studio in 2022, has collected four Good Design Awards between 2016 and 2020 and a Top Awards Asia prize, and became a part-time lecturer at Musashino in 2025. Her KŌSA container, two sheets of thin steel joined so that the woven basket structure comes from the material itself, was shown at SaloneSatellite 2025, after Isola Design Gallery and 3daysofdesign.