Kensaku Oshiro was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1977 and moved to Milan in 1996, completing a master's degree in industrial design at the Scuola Politecnica di Design in 1999. He worked with several design studios, spending eight years on the design team at Lissoni Associati, before moving to London in 2012 to join BarberOsgerby; he has since continued as an independent designer. His work has received the Design Report Award, the Red Dot Award and the IF Design Award, among others. For Viccarbe he designed Brix, an armchair intended for both residential and commercial settings. Its geometric form allows several units to be grouped into ordered arrangements in shared spaces. Built on a solid wood structure covered in expanded polyurethane, Brix is offered with arms in several studied widths; the wide arm doubles as a surface for a tablet.
