Karim Rashid vs. Contempo
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Posted by: Adriean on 8/22/2006 8:20:00 PM | Digg | Stumble It! | del.icio.us
Karimi Couch


Though he may have the odd hater, you have to respect the amount of pieces that K-Rad (that's right, you heard it here first) pumps out these days.

Of note for me has to be his latest sofa design for Italian manufacturer Contempo. The appropriately coined Karimi Couch stays true to the style that has been Karims bread and butter with the usage of his mainstay patterns consisting of his familiar "cross and peanut" motif.

Now I know some of you are moaning and groaning about this well travelled route, but really people what would you rather see him do ? A village pattern ?

Link: Karim Rashid
Link: Contempo

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K-Rad
Posted by anonymous on 8/22/2006 8:36:00 PM

I'd rather not see anything else designed by this clown. I've never heard or seen a bigger ego maniac who "thinks" he's saving the world with design. What's he birthed with this sofa? Another piece of crap. Who REALLY thinks this is interesting...and that the world needs it?
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Agreed
Posted by anonymous on 8/23/2006 12:18:00 AM

He needs to focus on quality — not quantity — and really needs to consult with someone possesing talent to improve his sad use of color and graphics. Karimi: what an egotistical joke. Uggh.

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Posted by Anonymous on 8/23/2006 9:24:00 AM

Looks like like a giant dogbed! yikes!
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...K-BAD!!
Posted by miles57 on 8/24/2006 11:28:00 PM


Enough of the cutie-pie-pink already... find a new color to wear out!
Puts me to sleep like the latest Paris Hilton hype!
Can we say backlash time??

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K-React
Posted by Adriean on 8/25/2006 8:35:00 AM

Good or bad, the man certainly get's a reaction out of people.

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K-R
Posted by Margherita on 8/26/2006 9:25:00 AM

Mah!
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read between the lines
Posted by Purplereign on 8/30/2006 8:40:00 AM

KARIM IS AN EXCEPTTIONAL TALENT THAT IS FRESH AND FORWARD THINKING. HIS USE OF ORGANIC LINE AND BOLD COLORS MAKES HIM ONE OF A KIND AND i THINK WE ALL CAN TAKE A FEW LESSONS FROM HIM IN DESIGN. HE DARES TO STEP OUT OF THE BOX AND FOR THAT I GIVE HIM PROPS.
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Don't forget to button your coat
Posted by Architorture on 9/11/2006 1:14:00 PM

I own a few of Rashid's pieces. I am a fan of his, but seriously this couch looks like a bored housewife went crazy on her sewing machine. I think that my mom made some sweat pants with a similar pattern. Put a couple doilies on the armrests and this thing would be perfect.
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omg!!
Posted by kayla on 9/25/2006 7:27:00 AM

its wanna be barbie!!!
yea that would be good if u were a little kid again
but seriously, get something different to work with
if it had different fabric i would like it but.....
well, u see it
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Dont Hate!
Posted by Chelsie on 11/1/2006 8:46:00 PM

Im currently in Interior design school right now and we had to do a project on a famous interior designer,a coulple girls picked him. I saw some of his art work I think it is cute, diffrent. Something I wouldnt put in my home but cute for Art purposes! since I am a fan of bright colors! So the people out their that dont like it, Stop haten on the mans style. He's doing better than yaw! LOL - Diva 06-
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good
Posted by sarah on 2/19/2007 3:50:00 AM

nice bright colourful muilticoloured

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Bill
Posted by Bill on 4/26/2007 6:55:00 AM

supermegaduper
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Posted by Isaac-Architect on 7/8/2007 11:35:00 PM

really the world could do without crap dished out from him.
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