Naoto Fukasawa

Naoto Fukasawa was born in Yamanashi in 1956, graduated in product design from Tama Art University in 1980 and spent seven years at ID Two, now IDEO, in San Francisco before heading IDEO’s Tokyo office from 1996. He founded Naoto Fukasawa Design in 2003, co-founded Plus Minus Zero that year and created Super Normal with Jasper Morrison in 2006. A Royal Designer for Industry, he advises Muji and directs the Japan Folk Crafts Museum.

For B&B Italia his designs include the Papilio chairs, armchairs and bed, the Harbor armchairs, the Shelf bookcases in Corian and the Omoi armchair of 2024.