BOTANICAL EXPERIENCES FOR LIVING SPACES

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

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 make living art and tend to it as time goes by. To give meaning to the tending itself.

A vintage black and white sepia toned image of a young Japanese woman in a black dress with a high collar, with black hair posing in front of a doorway next to a sign reading "La Donna" and a hanging floral arrangement.
A black and white circular emblem with a stylized flower and leaf design inside.

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 a floral 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 over the past decade 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.