Fadi Sarieddine was born in Beirut in 1971, lived through the Lebanese civil war from 1975 to 1990; in 1990 he joined the American University of Beirut to study Architecture in a country that needed rebuilding. After graduating in 1994 he joined Pierre El Khoury & partners. During this period he also worked with architect/artist Nadim Karam on the experimental urban project “Hilarious Beirut”. In 1997 Fadi decided to pursue education again to do his Masters in Architecture Design at the Bartlett School with Peter Cook. In 1998 Fadi returns to Beirut, joins Bernard Khoury & partners and together they work on Central and Yabani restaurants. In the same period, he started his first deviation from architecture, when he generated “trafficscape_mobile gardens” an urban installation which was exhibited in the 2003 Rotterdam Biennale. In 2004, Fadi moves to Dubai with Family to join DSA Architects with whom he designed award winning projects such Xanadu Hotel in Bodrum Turkey and Fattan Office building in Dubai Marina. He started getting active in furniture which was then culminated by his “Dubai Syndrome” chair winning the 2008 Traffic Design Competition which was exhibited in Salone del Mobile in Milan in 2010 together with “Mow Chair”.
Fadi’s rich experience, from the war through architecture to furniture, resulted in his experimental approach to design; he likes to transport material from their usual context to put them in different one giving them a new meaning. In his furniture the form respond to its use / the container engages with the contained. What you see is not what you get; is how you can describe his furniture, some of his pieces are like a magic box, you have to open them to discover what they are, grasp the story they tell…
2013 - Fadi takes the opportunity of Design Days Dubai Art fair 2013 to showcase his first work regarding design and furniture, on the La Galerie Nationale Booth. “It’s very important for the gallery to promote Middle East artists and specially designers.