Setsu and Shinobu Ito are both architects and designers. They have
created different products for FIAM: Toki coffee table in curved glass,
Kamy chair and Inori modular system of glass elements which can be used
as show-case, display-case and TV-unit.
They now live in Milan but both have graduated in Japan,
Shinobu at the Tama Art University in Tokyo and Setsu at the University
in Tsukuba.
In addition to their main activity as designers, Shinobu also works
as a graphic designer and has acquired experience as a marketer during
his years at the Sony Creative Products Inc.. Setsu is also a teacher in
Milan at Domus academy and at the European Institution of Design and in
Tokyo at the Tama Art University. They are currently working as consultants between Milan and Tokyo for
important companies such as Edra, De Padova, IXC, Toyo kitchen &
living, Nava, Sony CP Laboratories, Richard Ginori, Tiffany, Mitsubishi,
TDK, Hitachi, Sharp and Canon.
Their work has been published and exhibited through Europe and
Japan and has received several awards. Some of their pieces are today
part of the permanent collection at the museum of Contemporary Art in
Munich.