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Karim Rashid

Karim Rashid

From the course: Objectified

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Karim Rashid

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- A huge turning point in my life, I remember, was 1969, because I was watching, for those first nine years, a world that was talking all about the cosmos, about, you know, building spaceships that we would live on, about, you know, moving to outer space. And in fact design and design language was very, very instrumental in a sense of its vernacular, of speaking about that. Hence, we had transparent chairs, we had acrylics and glossy finishes and chrome, all the things that were, in a sense, going on. You know, radiused walls, and no corners, and all this language, all this, kind of, seamless language was about this notion of living in a really positive future, in a way. Armstrong put his foot on the moon right at that moment, in '69. And I remember that so well, that moment. And 30 basically, you know, 30-some-odd years later, it dawned on me of why the world, that utopic spirit, where everything was gonna be contemporary, we're not gonna live in a post-modern this, post-modern…

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