The founders of Toronto interior design practice Odami share their work and distinct perspectives. Odami is an award-winning architecture and design studio that aims to converge the pragmatic and the expressive, the subtle and the striking, the familiar and the unexpected.

From its offices in Toronto, Canada, it specializes in the full-service design of commercial spaces, residential architecture, and purposeful furniture, objects, and other material forms. Led by Arancha González Bernardo, a Spanish architect, and Michael Fohring, a Canadian designer, the practice represents a merging of design values and histories, a process deepened by the contemporary multiculturalism of the city in which they live and work. In embracing difference and purposely working between modes, perspectives, and dichotomies, they are in search of a fertile meeting ground — a space of conference and connection that gives rise to inventive outcomes.