Garbino Can

 

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Product designed by Karim Rashid, like for example the wastebasket “Garbo", have become design icons and echo world-wide in collections of museums.

The manufacturer Umbra produces the successful since 1996. It was the first product that Karim Rashid designed for Umbra and it ranks to the most sold article of canadian companies.

1997 the Garbino trash can was awarded with the Good Design (USA) together with the bigger Garbo Can and the smaller Garbini Can. Today you will find him among other things in permanent showrooms in MoMA, New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Chicago Athenaeum Museum or the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts.

The twisting and rolling Garbino consists of nonbreakable- and shock poroof Polypropylen. In different colours available.

Design: Karim Rashid

Karim Rashid was born in Egypt, raised in England, educated in Canada, and worked in Italy for a few years before opening his own studio in New York in 1993. Designer Karim Rashid

Honoured with: Good Design Award

The Museum’s historic Good Design program originated in Chicago in 1950 and was organized by Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr., former curator of the Museum of Modern Art. Designaward Good Design Award

Honoured with: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

The first address in modern art... in 1929 the Museum of Modern Art opened its doors for the first time. Since that time the museum in New York belongs to the most important collections of modern art and design. Designaward Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)