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Karim Rashid was
born in Cairo, Egypt in 1960; half-English, half Egyptian and raised
mostly in Canada. He received a Bachelor of Industrial Design in 1982
from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He pursued graduate design
studies in Naples, Italy, with Ettore Sottsass and others, and then
moved to Milan for one year at the Rodolfo Bonetto Studio. On his
return to Canada, he worked for seven years with KAN Industrial
Designers. While at KAN, he also co-founded and designed the Babel
Fashion Collection and North from 1985-91. He opened his own practice
in New York City in 1993. He has worked for numerous clients globally
such as Nambé, Umbra, Idèe, Issey Miyake, Totem, Pure
Design, Zeritalia, Fasem, Guzzini, Estee Lauder, Tommy Hilfiger,
Giorgio Armani, Sony, Magis, Edra, Leonardo, Zanotta, Maybelline,
Yahoo, George Kovacs, Citibank, Nienkamper, YSL, and others. He has
over 70 objects in permanent collections and his design work has been
exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New
York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Chicago Athenaeum, Chicago;
Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio; Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal;
Toronto Design Exchange, Toronto; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum,
NYC: The Israeli Museum, New York; The British Design Museum, London;
Emily Carr Museum, Vancouver; Tokyo Gas, Tokyo; Miami Museum of
Contemporary Art; The Groningen Museum, Holland among others. His work
has been published in International Design Yearbook 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
14 and 15; Product Design 6, 7; New and Notable Book 1, 2; and
periodicals such as The New York Times, GQ, Metropolis, ID Magazine,
Domus, Azure, Interni, Abitare, Wallpaper, Vogue, Modo, Time, House
& Home, New York Magazine, among many others. He was a full-time
Associate Professor in Industrial Design
for 10 years at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pratt
Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, and the Ontario College of
Art and lectures internationally. He has just released a 260 page book,
"I Want To Change The World" on Rizzoli Universe, 2001.
Karim Rashid designed for Zeritalia the coffee tables TRI-SPECTRA and KINK , the KRINKLE table, the KURL showcase and the KIRIE mirror. |
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