Oki Sato is Chief Designer and Founder of nendo. Born in 1977 in Toronto, Canada, he received an M.Arch. from Waseda University, Tokyo, in 2002 and established the design studio “nendo” in the same year. His activity in the design world has not been limited to any one area but is rather multifarious, ranging from graphic and product design to designing furniture, installations, windows, and interiors, and even reaching into the realm of architecture. Chosen by Newsweek magazine as one of “The 100 Most Respected Japanese” he has won many major “Designer of the Year” awards including from Wallpaper* magazine and Elle Decor magazine. Nendo designs can be found in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. For lIfe in Vogue nendo reinterpreted the graphic room.