Ryoko Ogoshi
After graduating from the Department of Living Aesthetics, Faculty of Home Economics, Showa Women's University (currently the Department of Environmental Design), she worked for seven years in the Architect Department of the Design Headquarters of the Tokyo Head Office of Obayashi Corporation, where she was involved in everything from design to construction supervision of offices, apartment complexes, commercial facilities, schools, and villas.
From here she moved to Ehime Prefecture, where she worked at a local design firm after raising her children. In 2014, she went independent and founded the architectural design firm "Ron Design Office".
In 2015, she travelled to the UK to learn the essence of architectural interiors and further her studies.After receiving a degree in interior design certified by the UK government, she returned to Japan and completed her studies the following year at the Kyoto University of Art and Design (now Kyoto University of the Arts) Graduate School of Art and Design (correspondence course), majoring in art and the environment. In 2018, she renamed her company "RON DESIGN" and established the art department "Galerie Articious". Since then, as one of the few interior architects in Japan, she has steadily gained a reputation of working with high-end, design-conscious clients creating dramatic and luxurious residences that combine global sensibilities with traditional Japanese beauty.
She has won awards both at home and abroad, becoming the first Japanese to win the Luxury Residences category of the Elite Awards, which is selected from the winners of The International Design & Architecture Awards, sponsored by design et al, a leading British interior design magazine, and winning the Andrew Martin Award, known as the Oscar of the interior design world, sponsored by a leading British furniture manufacturer.
In 2023, We incorporated and started a new chapter as Articious Co.,Ltd.. a first-class architectural firm called RON DESIGN.She moved the office to Tokyo.
This change is company structure is to allow for the development of work within the leisure and commercial sectors – hotels, restaurants, offices and cultural institutions.
Her hobbies are traveling, eating, and watching classical ballet.
Her special skill is her discerning eye for art, and she often visits auctions in London and New York. She is a big movie fan, and her lifetime favourite movie is "Cinema Paradiso."
British Institute of Interior Design（英国インテリアデザイン協会）とは、英国政府の規定するインスティテュート(Institute)ステータスを保持し、世界的に最も厳しいといわれる入会基準と規約を会員に課しつつ、インテリアデザインマーケットの発展に貢献するプロフェッショナル団体です。
Hiromi Hiroshima
While studying at the department of Industrial Relations, Faculty of Sociology, Rikkyo University, she studied abroad in London and experienced an internship at an architectural firm in London. After graduating, she became interested in hotel design businessthrough her secretarial work for anAmericanhotel management company and then became a certified interior coordinator.
In 2006, she moved to London due to her husband‘s job transfer and after graduating from KLC School of Design, she worked for NSDA, an interior design office based in London. In addition to FF&E design work, she was devoted to product analysis and trend reporting,travellingto exhibitions in various European countries.
After returning to Japan in 2009, she worked for Nomura Kogeisha A.N.D. from 2014.AsanA.N.D. FF&E designer, she was involved in a variety of projects such as residential model rooms, hotels, restaurants and airline executive lounges. She lived in New York City from 2017 to 2020 and afterreturning to Japan, she became an exclusive FF&E designer for RON DESIGN from2021.
With “Tateyama House”as herfirst project in RON DESIGN, shehas been making FF&E proposals for a number of luxury residence.
Sheis a registered interior designer for BIID,British Institute of InteriorDesign.
Her hobbies include traveling, visiting luxury hotels,food&wine, watching movies, and playing tennis.
In 2022 and beyond, she won the above awards as an FF&E designer for RON DESIGN.