OKIMOTO was founded in 2017 by Michelle Ishikawa, and named in honor of her paternal grandmother, Yasuko Okimoto-Ishikawa.

We are a woman-owned and AAPI-owned studio, maintaining a deliberately selective roster of workplace, hospitality, and residential clients across the region. Every account receives direct oversight from Michelle and our team, built on consistency, discretion, and a genuine investment in every space we care for. We prioritize that same level of care internally by remaining committed to livable wages and low-waste practices.

Our work is intuitive and ancestral in origin. Through all of time, humans have lived alongside plants and flowers, depending on them for everything: food, medicine, beauty, comfort, the meaning of life itself. Along the way, in the pace of the modern world, our closeness to this meaning has ebbed and flowed.

OKIMOTO exists to bring us closer to nature. To make living art and tend to it as time goes by. To give meaning to the tending itself.

Michelle's background spans interior design, project management, and fine art, with a foundation in sculpture and installation. After years designing and executing large-scale interior renovations, she retreated to a yurt in the Catskills, where stillness and the forest floor reshaped her creative path. What emerged was not only a botanical business, but a new way of living. A ritual practice and a lifetime pursuit of understanding her place in the natural order.

OKIMOTO has grown since its founding and is now a core team of florists, artists, horticulturalists, and plant lovers collaborating across the spaces where people work, gather, and live. Each project is envisioned with your space in mind and executed with the care that living materials and the practice call for.