Naoto Fukasawa was born in 1956 in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, and studied art and three-dimensional design at Tama Art University in Tokyo. After periods working in San Francisco and leading a design office in Tokyo, he founded his own studio, Naoto Fukasawa Design, in Tokyo. His practice spans household products, electronic devices and furniture, and he advises Japanese companies on strategy as well as product design. With Jasper Morrison he developed the Supernormal concept, an argument for ordinary, useful objects refined to their essentials. For Viccarbe he designed Common, a collection of low tables and benches, including an outdoor bench. The low tables come in several sizes and are conceived as companions to the bench, so the family can be composed to suit the scale of a space.
