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Cersaie 2010: Conferences and Seminars
A Conversation with Karim Rashid: Designing the Bath with Shape, Size and Color

Wednesday 29 September - 5,00 p.m.
Galleria dell'Architettura

Karim Rashid - Architect and Designer
Interwied by
Edie Cohen Deputy Editor, Interior Design

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Karim Rashid

Architect and Designer
Biographical notes
Karim Rashid is one of the most prolific designers of his generation. Over 3000 designs in production, over 300 awards and working in over 35 countries attest to Karim’s legend of design. Karim’s diversity affords him the ability to cross-pollinate ideas, materials, behaviors, aesthetics from one typology to the next, crossing boundaries and broadening consumer horizons.
His award winning designs include democratic objects such as the ubiquitous Garbo waste can and Oh Chair for Umbra, interiors such as the Morimoto restaurant, Philadelphia and Semiramis hotel, Athens and exhibitions for Deutsche Bank and Audi. Karim has collaborated with clients to create democratic design for Method and Dirt Devil, furniture for Artemide and Magis, brand identity for Citibank and Hyundai, high tech products for LaCie and Samsung, and luxury goods for Veuve Clicquot and Swarovski, to name a few.
Karim’s work is featured in 20 permanent collections and he exhibits art in galleries world wide.  Karim is a perennial winner of the Red Dot award, Chicago Athenaeum Good Design award, I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review, IDSA Industrial Design Excellence award. He holds honorary doctorates from the Ontario college of Art & Design and Corcoran College of Art & Design. 2008 highlighted Karim’s largest retrospective to date at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake, in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Most recently, Karim curated the exhibition Totally Rad: Karim Rashid does Radiators for Museum of Art and Design in New York City.  Karim is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences globally disseminating the importance of design in everyday life.
Karim’s has been featured in magazines and books including Time, Financial Times, NY Times, Esquire, GQ and countless more. In 2009 Rizzoli released Karim’s latest monograph ‘KarimSpace,’ featuring 36 of Karim’s interior architecture designs. Other books include Karim’s guide to living, ‘Design Your Self’ (Harper Collins, 2006),  ‘Digipop’, a digital exploration of computer graphics (Taschen, 2005), compact portfolio published by Chronicle Books (2004), as well as two monographs titled ‘Evolution’ (Universe, 2004) and ‘I Want to Change the World’ (Rizzoli, 2001). In his spare time Karim’s pluralism flirts with DJing, art and fashion and is determined to creatively touch every aspect of our physical landscape.  

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Edie Cohen More

Edie Cohen

Deputy Editor, Interior Design
Biographical notes
Edie Cohen is the Deputy Editor of Interior Design magazine. Following a long association with the magazine in New York, she moved to Los Angeles to establish its first West Coast editorial office. Ms. Cohen is a frequent participant in design conferences, seminars, juries, and has appeared on television. She is the author of West Coast Rooms and has also contributed articles to various publications. Ms. Cohen graduated cum laude from Syracuse University, where she also spent a semester abroad in Italy. 

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Karim Rashid