These are a pair of Japanese designers ad architects who trained at Tsukuba University and Tama Art University in Tokyo, respectively. They have been working between Milan and Tokyo.
Shinobu gained much of his experience during the years spent at Sony Creative Products Inc. Setsu runs design courses in Tokyo at Tama Art University, and in Milan at the Domus Academy and the Istituto Europeo di Design.
Currently, they work as designers for companies such as Edra, e' De Padova, Cassina-ixc, Toyo kitchen & living, Guzzini, Nava, Sony CP Laboratories, Richard Ginori, Tiffany, Mitsubishi, TDK, Hitachi, Sharp and Canon.
Their works have been widely published and exhibited in Europe and Japan; some of them are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Munich.
This is how they describe their design philosophy:
“The concept of appreciation of post-consumer objects is found in all our projects. We think about raising the post-consumer object to an object of value: from “disposable" to a unique object, in a continual fusion between Japan and Italian customs.”
The relations between the elements of the world are reviewed through creativity, almost like a game which allows mankind to evolve and always find new solutions to the problems that lie ahead.
