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Karim Rashid's First Solo U.S. Museum Exhibition"I Want to Change the World" reads the title of Karim Rashid's 2001 manifesto -and he has done just that, as one of today's most prolific and successful designers.
Since beginning his career in 1979, at age 19, he has created "sensual minimalist" designs for hundreds of "blobjects" - from wristwatches, table - and glassware, clocks and soap containers to the best-selling "Garbo" wastebasket-as well as furniture, fashions, lighting fixtures, showrooms, hotels, restaurants, residences, and sculptures.
He is an author, a frequent lecturer at universities and conferences, an invited contributor to numerous group exhibitions, and the star of the television reality show Made in the USA.
His designs are in the permanent collections of 15 major museums around the world.
Now, for the first time, he will be the subject of a solo museum exhibition in his home country, the United States.
From April 28 through September 17, Price Tower Arts Center will present the exhibition Karim Rashid.
Organized by the Arts Center, the exhibition will examine the blurring of the boundaries between design, architecture and sculpture as exemplified by Rashid's "blobs."
A site-specific installation, commissioned for the exhibition-a sleek, suspended metallic "blobject" reminiscent of a landscape with a surface reflecting the surrounding
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