Karim Rashid's current projects include new Totem boutiques, Emporio Armani Boutiques, several restaurants in NYC and Philadelphia, interiors for the MediaTech building in Sendai for Toyo Ito, hotels in Miami and Athens, and gallery installations. He also designs products, cosmetics, and fashion accessories for various international clients such as Nambe , Umbra, Issey Miyake, Pure Design , Zeritalia, Unitone, Estee Lauder, Tommy Hilfiger, Giorgio Armani, Sony, Zanotta, Yahoo, Citibank, Nienkamper, and others. The Philadelphia Museum of Art calls him one of a handful of young designers whose work will have a lasting influence on design in the 21st century. Mr. Rashid has won many awards including the 1999 George Nelson Award and the Silver IDEA Award for the Oh Chair in the 1999 Industrial Design Excellence Awards, the Brooklyn Museum of Art Designer of the Year 1998, the 1998 and 1999 Design Effectiveness Awards and the ID Magazine Annual Review Design Distinction in 1998. His work has been exhibited and is in permanent collections in numerous museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Objects have to blur experience with form so that they are inseparable.
It means retooling the stuff we live with to suit the way we really live. It means that if we slouch in chairs, we make chairs that let us. Rashid is joined by Matthew Drutt , Associate Curator for Research at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He established the Guggenheim 's web site in 1995, and is currently overseeing the development of the Guggenheim Virtual Museum .