Alessi Itsumo Butter Knife Designed by Naoto Fukasawa

Naoto Fukasawa is considered one of the most famous contemporary designers and the most influential. Born in 1956 in the district of Yamanashi in Japan and graduated in 1980 from the Faculty of Product Design at Tama Art University. Worked until 1988 as a designer at Seiko Epson group and the following year he left for the United States. He back in Japan, and in 2003 founded the "Naoto Fukasawa Design" in Tokyo. Fukasawa works with many companies such as Vitra, Alessi, Boffi, Driade, Danese, Artemide, Magis, B&B Italia, Serralunga and Glas. It has a minimalist approach to design and organic and in 2007 he was awarded the title of Hon RDI- Honorable Royal Designer for Industry (Royal Society of Arts). He has received over 50 awards, including the American IDEA Gold Award, the British D & AD Gold Award and the Mainichi Gold Award. The MD DVD player for Muji and cellphone Infobar for AU are part of the permanent collection at the MOMA in New York.