Textile industry professional Kari Pei has joined Interface as product designer.

Textile industry professional Kari Pei has joined Interface as product designer, a newly created position that is part of the company’s evolving global product strategy. Pei will work alongside internal product design and development teams and David Oakey Designs from her office at the company’s LaGrange, Ga., Awarehouse. 

 

“For the past 25 years, Kari has created printed and woven textiles for some of the world’s most recognized brands, including our friends at Knoll and Starwood Hotels,” said Nigel Stansfield, chief innovation officer of Interface. “She’s equally at home in the design studio and on the factory floor, and we are drawn to her unique perspectives on texture, depth and color, as well as her collaborative nature.”

 

Pei, who was attracted to the Interface design legacy created by Oakey, is eager to explore design in the context of the company’s sustainability mission: “Because sustainability is so foundational at Interface, designers are free to explore how we can use carpet—which is the thing that people relate to the most in a room—to enhance the quality of our experience underfoot through color, texture, pattern and depth.” 

 

For more information, visit interface.com/US/en-US/global.