India Mahdavi

According to Interior Design, India Mahdavi founded her Paris-based studio IMH in 1999.^1,2 According to Interior Design, Mahdavi founded her Paris studio in 1999.^1,2

According to Interior Design, interior Design named Mahdavi a 2019 Hall of Fame inductee.¹ According to Interior Design, from age two to six she lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while her father attended Harvard University.¹ According to India Mahdavi, Mahdavi spent her early childhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her father attended Harvard University.¹

According to Interior Design, Mahdavi studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.^1,2 According to Interior Design, Mahdavi worked as creative director at Christian Liaigre's firm before starting her own studio.^1,2 According to Interior Design, she also studied industrial, graphic and furniture design at three New York schools.¹

According to Interior Design, Mahdavi worked at Christian Liaigre’s firm before establishing her own studio.^1,2 According to Interior Design, Mahdavi studied design in New York at the Cooper Union, the School of Visual Arts, and Parsons School of Design.¹ According to Interior Design, Mahdavi designed the Bishop stool in 2004 for APT, a Manhattan nightclub.¹

According to Interior Design, the Bishop stool is held in the permanent collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.¹ According to Interior Design, Mahdavi designed a Los Angeles tearoom for Ladurée in 2017.¹ Mahdavi maintains project display rooms near her gallery on rue de Bellechasse in Paris.²

According to Architectural Digest, in 2014, Mahdavi redesigned The Gallery at the London restaurant Sketch.^3,4 According to Architectural Digest, the brief for Sketch’s Gallery called for incorporating 239 drawings by David Shrigley.^3,4 According to Architectural Digest, her furniture line is carried by Ralph Pucci International in New York.³ According to Architectural Digest, Mahdavi was awarded France's Officier des Arts et des Lettres.³

Mahdavi has said she changed perceptions of pink.¹ According to India Mahdavi, Mahdavi's childhood in Cambridge gave her a lifelong love of cartoons and pop-bright shades of pink and green.¹ According to India Mahdavi, Mahdavi has named the Bishop stool as the furniture piece she is most proud of.¹

According to Interior Design, Commentators describe her work as combining humor with seriousness, avoiding kitsch by not being entirely humorous.^1,2 According to Interior Design magazine, Mahdavi's work is described as having humor that is not entirely humorous, avoiding kitsch.¹ According to India Mahdavi, Mahdavi describes her style as 'polyglot and polychrome,' meaning cosmopolitan and rich in color.²

According to India Mahdavi, Mahdavi describes her own style as "polyglot and polychrome."² According to NUVO magazine, Mahdavi's designs are described as both silly and serious, sharp and sweet.² Mahdavi says an asymmetrical arrangement can improve a symmetrical space.²

According to Nuvo, Nuvo contrasts the range of Project Room #3 with the desert minimalism of her Siwa project.² Mahdavi says color is the best way to bring sunshine into a space.³ According to Architectural Digest, she was awarded the rank of Officier des Arts et des Lettres by France.³

According to India Mahdavi, Mahdavi selected a distinctive pink for the Gallery at Sketch.⁵ According to HEAD–Genève/Herbarium of Interiors text, an academic publication describes the 2014 Sketch Gallery as one of the most Instagrammed spaces in the history of images.⁴