Annabel Kassar
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Annabel Kassar
Architect, Designer, and Artist
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Community/Lebanon Impact
- Annabel Karim Kassar is an award-winning French-Lebanese architect, designer, and artist.
- She graduated as a DPLG architect from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
- Founder of AKK Architects with offices in Milan, Beirut and Dubai, her team has developed masterplans for commercial, cultural and historical residential buildings as well as interiors for office spaces, bars, clubs and restaurants, including elements of its own unique furniture and lighting collections.
- Annabel Karim Kassar has lived and worked across the globe, notably in France, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, China, Great Britain and the U.A.E. With her ability to work within different cultures, Annabel has extensive experience with international projects of diverse functions.
- Annabel believes the emotional, humanistic approach to designing interior spaces found in traditional cultures still has much to teach the modern world. Her fearless choices of aesthetic associations, combined with her constant practice of modernist architecture defines her unique approach, which has garnered international recognition. Unburdened by trends and norms, she brings this particular vision and talent to all of her architectural projects as well as her furniture designs.
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Education
Education:
- DPLG Graduate, the School of Architecture, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.
Work history
Previous Professions:
1994 - Present: AKK Architects, Annabel Karim Kassar’s architectural practice, Lebanon.
Accomplishments
Awards:
- 2016: German Design Award.
- 2016: 1st Prize for the project "the Pavilion of Lebanon", London Design Biennale.
- 2015: Camera Chiara at Milan Design Week 2015.
- 2015: Iconic Award.