Odami is a Toronto-based design studio offering architectural and interior design services. The studio was founded in 2017 by Spanish architect Aránzazu González Bernardo (B.Sc.Arch, M.Arch: ETSAC, A Coruña, Spain; BCIN) and Canadian designer Michael Fohring (B.Sc.Arch, M.Arch: McGill University, Canada).
The merging of Spanish and Canadian design sensibilities and cultures has been the focus of our practice since its inception. We seek to embody and bridge this duality, with work which is bold — yet elegant; unconventional — yet rooted in tradition; raw — yet refined; creative — yet grounded; original — yet timeless.
Ultimately, guided by these qualities, and a passion for materiality and craft, our aim is to produce unique, one-of-a-kind projects that belong to their place and its story, and are a true reflection of their client.
Our work has been featured in a variety of local and international design publications, including Dezeen, Frame, Azure, Dwell, ArchDaily, AN Interiors, Designlines, and several others.
In addition to running the studio, Aránzazu and Michael also maintain positions as Sessional Instructors at the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Interior Design and the University of Waterloo School of Architecture.
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AN Interiors Top 50 Architects and Designers of 2023, North America
Archello Awards 2023 - Shop Interior of the Year, Winner (Aesop Yorkville)
Archello Awards 2023 - Overall Interior of the Year, Finalist (Aesop Yorkville)
Outstanding Property Award London, Platinum Winner (Aesop Yorkville)
Frame Awards 2023 Spatial Design - Retail, Shortlisted (Aesop Yorkville)
Dezeen Awards 2023 - Small Retail Interior, Longlisted (Aesop Palisades Village)
Designlines Designer of the Year 2022
The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards 2022 - Interior Retail, Winner (Aesop Yorkville)
Canadian Interiors Best of Canada - Retail, Winner (Aesop Yorkville)
AZ Awards 2023 - Commercial and Institutional Interiors, Award of Merit (Aesop Yorkville)
Dezeen Awards - Small Retail Interior, Finalist (Aesop Yorkville)
Interior Design Magazine Best of Year Awards - Retail, Finalist (Aesop Yorkville)
Azure’s Top 10 of 2022: The Year’s Best Interiors, (Aesop Yorkville)
Designlines’ Top Interiors of 2022, (Aesop Yorkville)
Designlines’ Top Interiors of 2022, (Beaches House)
Archello Best of 2022, (Aesop Yorkville)
Best Architectural & Interior Design Studio 2023 - GTA, Lux Magazine
Architizer A+ Awards - Residential Interior (<3000sqft), Finalist (Deer Park House)
Interior Design Magazine Best of Year Awards - Residential Transformation, Finalist (Deer Park House)
Restaurant and Bar Design Awards - Surface Interior, Shortlisted (Sara Restaurant)
One Club for Creativity NYC Young Gun Award, for 30 outstanding young international designers
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HOMI Milano - Retail Between Experience and Aspiration - Milan, Italy
Design Exchange - MadeInSpain Lecture Series - Toronto, Canada
CreaTech ‘23 - London, England
DesignTO Mix with Odami - Toronto, Canada
DesignTO Festival - “Case Study 01: On Mass” - Toronto, Canada
IDS Toronto - “Case Study 01: On Mass” - Toronto, Canada
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AN Interiors, “AN Interior’s Top 50 Architects and Designers of 2023”
Designlines, “Designer of the Year 2022: Odami’s Rise to the Top”
Azure, “Odami Bathes Aesop’s Palisades Village Outpost in a Sea of Green”
Dezeen, “Odami creates textured minty interior for Aesop Palisades Village store”
ArchDaily, “Aesop Palisades Village / Odami”
Nuvo Magazine, “Design Space: Aesop Palisades Village by Odami”
Architizer, “‘Quiet Luxury’: 8 Spaces Evoking the Immaculate Aesthetic of HBO’s Succession”
YINJISPACE, “Aesop Palisades Village Store”
Interior Design Magazine, “Odami Looks to California Modernism’s Heyday for a New Aesop”
INTERIORS Korea, Aesop Pacific Palisades (Print)
Sharp Magazine, “Range Rover x Sharp, Odami: Driven By Design”
Azure, “Top 10 of 2022: The Year’s Best Interiors”
“The Healthy Indoors: New Challenges, New Designs,” Frame Publishers
Nuvo Magazine, “Toronto’s Stunning New Aesop Location Boasts Contemporary and Victorian Charm”
ArchDaily, “Aesop Store Yorkville/Odami”
Azure, “Aesop’s New Yorkville Store Embodies the Neighbourhood’s Historic Charm”
Dezeen, “Victorian balusters pattern surfaces at Aesop Yorkville store by Odami”
Label Magazine, “Aesop in Toronto”
Hospitality Design, “Aesop’s New Toronto Store Emits a Residential-Style Warmth”
Archello, “Odami reimagines Victorian Balustrades in the new Aesop Yorkville store”
Dwell, “‘Bossy Marble’ Meets Memphis Verve in This Sculptural Toronto Home”
Designlines, “A Deer Park Home Gets Dressed to the Nines”
Leibal, “Deer Park House by Odami”
House&Home, “Tour A Light & Airy Home With Beautiful Sightlines”
Dezeen, “Toronto beach house by Odami resolves "contradictory" context between waterfront and city”
Nuvo Magazine, “The Flowing Levels of Odami’s Beaches House”
Dwell, “A Bright and Airy Home Brings Beach Vibes to Urban Toronto”
Designlines, “Odami’s Beaches House Bridges City and Sand”
Rethinking The Future, “Beaches House by Odami”
Azure, “Toronto’s Drake Hotel Embraces A New Era”
Designlines, “With Pet Objects, Odami Empathizes with the Inanimate”
Dwell, “Before & After: An All-Too-’80s Condo Trades Its Popcorn Ceiling for a Chic Sunroom”
Dezeen, “Green-painted sunroom with cathedral views features in renovated Toronto apartment”
Designlines, “Odami’s Downtown Condo Redesign Takes in the View”
Leibal, “St. Lawrence Reno by Odami”
Label Magazine, “An apartment in a former garage”
Rethinking The Future, “St. Lawrence Reno by Odami”
Dezeen, “Odami creates a furniture collection from one dying tree”
Thisispaper, “Case Study 01 by Odami”
Leibal, “Case Study 01 by Odami”
Goodmoods, “Case Study 01: La nouvelle collection design du studio Odami”
Designlines, “Three of DesignTO’s Freshest Faces”
Pendulum, “Case Study 01: On Mass - Furniture Design Capturing 130-years of History”
Departures Magazine, “This Stunning Furniture Collection Was Made From a Single 130-Year-Old Tree”
Woodworking Network, “Dying red oak births one-of-a-kind furnishings collection”
DesignTO, “DesignTO Mix w/ Odami”
Gooood, “Lazy Bricks by Odami”
GoodHomes India, “Odami highlights earthly minimalism with this wood panelled home in Toronto”
Dezeen, “Odami celebrates ‘earthly minimalism’ at Sara restaurant in Toronto”
e-architect, “Rosedale House in Toronto”
Pure Luxury Magazine, “ODAMI: Escape to Tranquility”
Designlines, “Inside Five New Toronto Restaurants Where Design Runs Wild”
Australian Design Review, “Blending the haptic qualities of land and sea: Sara Restaurant”
e-architect, “Sara Restaurant in Toronto”
Rethinking The Future, “Sara Restaurant by Odami”
Design Raid, “Sara Restaurant by Odami”
Design Raid, “Rosedale House by Odami”
BlogTO, “50 Restaurants in Toronto with Breathtaking Interior Design”
The Spaces, “Toronto restaurant Sara is a place of ‘calm and escape’”
Toronto Storeys, “New Toronto Restaurant, SARA, Serves Up A Reminder To Be Present”
Bay Street Bull, “The Beauty of Sara is in the Restaurant’s Attention to Detail”