Friday Five with Kari Pei of Interface
Vice President of Product Design at Interface, Kari Pei uses her expertise to bring visions to life. Today she joins us for Friday Five!
As Vice President of Product Design at Interface, Kari Pei uses her design expertise to bring the brand’s visions to life. By looking to the world around her for inspiration, she creates a common language on global issues such as sustainability. Kari believes that flooring can help establish a hierarchy in any given space, and that changes in color, scale, texture, and pattern can enhance the way a space feels to those who use it. Prior to joining Interface in 2015, Kari worked with a number of international fashion houses, manufacturers, and hospitality brands, including Starwood Hotels, MGM Resorts International, and Knoll. A graduate from the University of Michigan School of Fine Arts, Kari lives in New York with her husband and their daughter. Today she’s joining us for Friday Five!
1. Modern Art, especially Agnes Martin, Sol Lewit, Mark Rothko, Gerhardt Richter
Each of these artists? work is about essence, simplicity, purity, emotion. Those are all characteristics that I am drawn to and hope to incorporate into my own work. I feel that when these characteristics are considered in the process of creation, then the end result is stronger, has endurance, can sustain time, and all the while evoke a reaction from the user.
2. Museums, especially The Met
History inspires me. Each time I find myself in a museum, I ge...
As Vice President of Product Design at Interface, Kari Pei uses her design expertise to bring the brand’s visions to life. By looking to the world around her for inspiration, she creates a common language on global issues such as sustainability. Kari believes that flooring can help establish a hierarchy in any given space, and that changes in color, scale, texture, and pattern can enhance the way a space feels to those who use it. Prior to joining Interface in 2015, Kari worked with a number of international fashion houses, manufacturers, and hospitality brands, including Starwood Hotels, MGM Resorts International, and Knoll. A graduate from the University of Michigan School of Fine Arts, Kari lives in New York with her husband and their daughter. Today she’s joining us for Friday Five!
1. Modern Art, especially Agnes Martin, Sol Lewit, Mark Rothko, Gerhardt Richter
Each of these artists? work is about essence, simplicity, purity, emotion. Those are all characteristics that I am drawn to and hope to incorporate into my own work. I feel that when these characteristics are considered in the process of creation, then the end result is stronger, has endurance, can sustain time, and all the while evoke a reaction from the user.
2. Museums, especially The Met
History inspires me. Each time I find myself in a museum, I ge...
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