Kari Pei

A 2023 documentary on innovative women of science and design decarbonizing the built environment while restoring the planet.

horoughly evaluate, analyze, and delve into extensive discussions surrounding a diverse array of submissions by textile designers and artists aiming to encapsulate the essence of our society through innovative textile creations. This initiative presents a fresh perspective and creative solutions to the challenges of the previous century, infused with optimism and imagination to redefine our dynamic and ever-evolving lifestyles.

Carefully scrutinize, analyze, and engage in in-depth discussions on a broad spectrum of nominees recognized for their exceptional contributions to the realm of product design, encompassing educational initiatives and impactful contributions to society.

Stargazing Collection is a pair of resilient flooring products designed for the Education market with broad appeal for any application. Bright, muted and neutral colors enable a wide variety of color options for the floor. In designing the products, the approach came from looking at the inherent problems that occur with resilient flooring, and designing those problems into the product.

An award winning global carpet tile collection with the first carbon negative carpet tiles in the world. Inspired by the ancient Japanese crafts of kintsugi, sashiko and rake, which are designed to renew objects and provide them with a sustainable purpose, an ikigai.

An award winning collection of beautifully constructed textures and patterns for the Select Service Market in Hospitality.

An award winning modular flooring solution with hard and soft surfaces; tufted carpets and printed LVT. Inspired by the urban landscape of concrete and terrazzo surfaces, Look Both Ways provides a textural, modular flooring solution with scale, color and pattern.

A commercial modular carpet collection providing a system of options in texture and scale for monolithic flooring solutions.

Award winning carpet tile collection for commercial interiors. A colorful and textural homage to the abstract expressionist, Gerhardt Richter.

Modular carpet collection of 3 products created to stand alone or integrate, with surface textures implying a birds-eye-view.

Modular carpet tile with monolithic texture creating a large scale scratched, or etch surface.

A carpet tile collection of 9 products designed for multiple markets in 6 palettes. The carpets are in a range of pile heights, textures and price points. Biophilic, organic, multi-colored and monochromatic, Global Change is designed for "Positive Spaces" needing sophisticated area designation by pattern, color or texture.

The Nexus Collection, consists of three patterns, seven to eight color ways each. The designs use a singular element; line, to tell a story about transparency, opacity, light and shadow. There is a lot of movement in each of the designs, which are either 24" x 54" or 36" x 54" repeats. The Nexus Collection is printed for commercial wall covering.

The project started with three categories. Each of the designs were inspired by those categories: Bark, Infinity & Fractals. After developing patterns for about three months, the team at Starwood narrowed down the pattern selection to 16 patterns to be developed into carpet, walls, drapery, upholstery and pillows; both woven and printed for the guest rooms and corridors in the new and newly renovated Westin Hotels.

The in-house design group for MGM commissioned a series of murals designed by Julie Gamble and myself. The murals were manufactured using multiple techniques: rotogravure printed then embossed then then tip printed then silkscreened before being hung in a very exacting sequence. Each mural consisted of 4 panels. The murals were hung in the guest rooms and corridors throughout the Bellagio.

Technically challenging and research-driven, recreation of the wallpaper FDR selected and hung in his suite while studying at Harvard University.

A design competition amongst the architecture graduate students at Harvards Graduate School of Design. Pei instructed the students in technical production, and required them to create wallpaper that changed the perception of the space 2-dimensionally, rather than their trained 3-dimensional approach. The results were hundreds of captivating ideas. A jury of design professionals selected the resulting winners.