Ryota Yokozeki
A Tokyo-based industrial designer, Ryota Yokozeki finds beauty in the rhythms of daily life. Trained in fine art and sharpened through a decade at Sony, his work translates the ephemeral - light, texture, atmosphere - into objects that quietly transform a space.
From shaped through exploration and intution
Ryota Yokozeki spent ten years as an industrial designer at Sony's Creative Center in Tokyo - an environment defined by rigorous thinking and technical precision. When he founded his own studio in 2017, he carried that discipline with him, but turned it toward something more intimate. He began asking not what an object does, but what it makes you feel.
That shift brought him to materials that breathe. To paper that diffuses light the way clouds soften sunlight. To forms that change depending on where you stand.
"Beauty is something that is all around us in our daily lives, we can only find it if we pay careful attention to it."
Ryota Yokozeki
The sky as a blueprint
Drifting like a cloud
Ryota's Sekiun pendant was born from a simple observation: that everyone, everywhere, has looked up at the sky and felt something. Cumulus clouds shift with the hour, the season, the light. No two moments are the same.
Made by rolling and layering two pieces of specially coated washi paper, Sekiun captures that same quality of change. Viewed from one angle it appears soft and full. From another, the layered shadows deepen. Like a cloud caught in sunlight, it warms the space around it - differently each time.