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DESIGN IS HUMAN, June 4-12 2011

 

Meet KARIM RASHID at Pedini Of Atlanta


Time

8 June 2011
8pm-10pm

Cost

Free Admission

Location

Pedini of Atlanta
800 Peachtree Street NE
Unit C
Atlanta, Georgia 30308

All About

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.

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Pedini presents an evening with Karim Rashid

The Pedini of Atlanta showroom will be hosting an evening with International product and interior designer Karim Rashid on Wednesday June 8, 8:00pm-10:00pm. Mr. Rashid has products designed for several lines of furniture that are featured in the Pedini showroom including: Bonaldo, Tonelli and Cierre. We will have many examples of these products and in the showroom for you to see and hear what inspires Mr. Rashid in his creative processes.

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Karim Rashid
Karim Rashid

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.

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.

Pedina Atlanta
800 Peachtree Street NE
Unit C
Atlanta, Georgia 30308