Roderick Fry

In 2022, Fry completed his first novel A Message for Nasty, which he began in 1999 when he traced the route across China taken by his late New Zealand grandfather during World War II, who was attempting to organise the escape of Fry's Macau-born grandmother and children from Hong Kong after the Japanese invasion. The historically accurate novel is based on their story. The book was launched at the Auckland Writers Festival on in August, and was the week's top selling New Zealand book within two weeks.

Fry has featured in New Zealand media, where he wrote about the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015; and commentated on expat Paris life, the fire of Notre Dame in 2019 and his first novel in 2022.

Fry shares an apartment in the 11th arrondissement of Paris with his French wife Laurence Varga-Fry and their son. Their Moaroom store is located in the neighbouring 12th arrondissement and their son attends a local public school.

In 2009 Fry started to design sustainable objects himself for inclusion in moa's collection. The Pi collection, a system of metal table legs that can be used with locally sourced wooden tops to make stable dining tables, consoles and desks, is an example of Fry's focus on transporting only parts of objects so that they can be completed by local artisans using local woods. The Pi table was voted best New Zealand table design in 2010 by Urbis magazine.

In 2004, Fry and Varga co-founded moa – meubles et objets de Aotearoa, now Moaroom, a Paris showroom and website to promote New Zealand designers who were achieving international attention, but at the time, struggling to maintain a long-term presence in the European press, or to develop ongoing relationships with design museums, distributors and architects.

Roderick Fry (born 1969) is a New Zealand-born, Paris-based designer, writer and promoter of sustainable and New Zealand design. He is the co-founder of Moaroom in Paris, co-publisher of The Long White Book, designer of the Pi furniture collection and author of the novel A Message for Nasty.

Fry was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1969, and was raised and went to school in the Auckland suburb of Pakuranga. He gained a Bachelor of Commerce marketing and management degree from the University of Auckland. After living in USA and Canada, Fry learned to speak Mandarin and worked as a product manager for Swiss company, Roche, in Hong Kong, then Taiwan. There he met Laurence Varga, and they moved to Shanghai. There he worked for French design and communication firm Joel Desgrippes and Associates before taking a sabbatical to write his first novel, which is being published in 2022. In 2001, Fry and Varga moved to Paris where they were married. Fry learned to speak French and continued to write.