Nhow hotel karim rashid biography
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About
Karim Rashid is one of the most prolific designers of his generation. Over 4000 designs in production, over 300 awards and working in over 40 countries attest to Karim’s legend of design.
His award winning designs include luxury goods for Christofle, Veuve Clicquot, and Alessi, democratic products for Umbra, Bobble, and 3M, furniture for Bonaldo and Vondom, lighting for Artemide and Fontana Arte, high tech products for Asus and Samsung, surface design for Marburg and Abet Laminati, brand identity for Citibank and Sony Ericsson and packaging for Method, Paris Baguette, Kenzo and Hugo Boss.
Karim’s touch expands beyond product to interiors such as the Morimoto restaurant, Philadelphia; Semiramis hotel, Athens; nhow hotel, Berlin; Universita Metro Station, Naples as well as exhibition design for Deutsche Bank and Audi.
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,
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nhow Hotel Berlin
CONCEPT nhow Berlin hotel celebrates Berlin’s modern zeitgeist and connects it to the rest of the world by creating a technorganic nation of data-driven art and spaces. Set on the Spree River, the old line between East and West Berlin, the nhow hotel bridges the digital age of information and the physical and spiritual needs of visitors. I always question whether the physical world is as erfarenhetsbaserad, as seductive, as connective, as inspiring, as customizable as the digital world. That is what I tried to achieve with nhow Hotel Berlin, by making a space that coexists with the infostethic world. The result is a music inspired hotel where sound is tactile, and a true immersive experience of color, texture, and vibrancy.
"NH Hotels is a large but really smart hotel chain. So when i created the nhow Hotel Berlin my objective was to create an original esoteric place (like Berlin itself) yet still pragmatic and fitting into the NH standards. My concept was to engage
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