Ryota Yokozeki

Ryota Yokozeki was born in Gifu Prefecture in 1985 and graduated in product design from Kanazawa College of Art in 2008. He spent nine years as an industrial designer at Sony before founding Ryota Yokozeki Studio in 2017, a practice working from Japan on projects at home and abroad.

The studio handles product design and creative direction across appliances, furniture, tableware, daily objects and art pieces, following a method it describes as creating new archetypes for daily life: forms that blend into the home instead of imposing a style. Clients include Lixil, AGC, Panasonic, KOKUYO and Toray; his Aizome chair, selected in 2016, is part of the Vitra Design Museum collection, and in 2026 he presented the solo exhibition From Flat at the Cavallerizze during Milan Design Week.