Eddie Sakamoto, a third generation Japanese-American, was born in 1953 in Seattle, Washington. Sakamoto was trained in graphic design and had a great interest in architecture and industrial design. However, after a five year employment with a prominent jewelry designer, he began to see jewelry as an alternate means of design expression. Aspiring to present his ideas to a larger audience, Sakamoto moved to Los Angeles in 1979 is to create his own jewelry design company, Concept 1 - Sakamoto.

Sakamoto describes himself as a minimalist. The challenge to create jewelry where less is more. Showing discipline to avoid ideas that are mostly decorative or ornamental in nature. As in many Japanese art forms, negative space plays a leading role in defining his designs. Platinum and 18KT yellow gold take on strong sensual shapes. They curve and bend and arc gracefully. They are feminine and masculine in form, the yin/yang.

Leading jewelry designer, author and educator Alan Revere describes Sakamoto's work, "using precious materials as a sculpture uses clay, Sakamoto creates hefty rings, bracelets and pendants displaying a disregard for gold's intrinsic value which is uncharacteristic of material-conscious jewelry designers. Sakamoto's striking visual statements are a result of the dramatic interplay of forms, each of which is carefully massaged until a harmonious and balanced solution is achieved. His designs often employ large unusually set diamonds as their focal point, sometimes including an embellishment of channel-set smaller diamonds. Sakamoto's flawless artwork would be just as intriguing if executed as twenty-foot tall garden sculptures as they are in miniature on the finger of a sophisticated woman."