Founder of Alchemy Design Studio , Karim Mekhtigian is a designer who picked up his skills and knowledge from around the world. Though Armenian in origin, he was brought-up in Cairo, studied in Paris and often jokes about having been Japanese in a previous life. Throughout the years, this mille-feuilles of different identities helped him form his design language and translate his creative vision into his creations

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Friday Five with Karim Mekhtigian