Karen Stone

Karen Stone
Bio

Karen Stone is former Director of Design for Knoll, Inc., responsible for the design of Knoll Showrooms, Knoll Retail Shops, exhibits and trade shows worldwide; for bringing sustainable design, new materials and technologies to Knoll product design; and for establishing direction for new finishes for Knoll products. Starting at Knoll in 1991, her awarding-winning design work spanned more than thirty years, it has been cited in publications including ID, Domus, Interiors, and Inside Design Now. She created a new line of products for Knoll Shop retail store and established the Knoll Design Student Internship program.

An Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design at Pratt Institute, Karen has taught courses in Three-Dimensional Design and Furniture Design, she has conducted workshops at Bauhaus Universitat-Weimar and Tsinghua University, Beijing and Visiting Professor at Samsung Art and Design Institute.  Karen has led projects with Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Keio University and Folkwang University of the Arts. She served as Pratt Faculty Advisor to the IDSA Student Chapter for 15 years, has lead design workshops at New York City High Schools.

Karen has served on the board of the Brooklyn Arts Council, has been a panelist for Design for Social Impact May 2016, Women x Design May 2017, and Design50 October 2018. She holds a BS in Industrial Design from Ohio State University, an MID from Pratt Institute, and has studied at Oxford University, England.

In 2018 she received a Distinguished Alumni Award for Professional Achievement from OSU, was a recipient of IDSA’s 20/20 Recognition, and received the Rowena Reed Kostelow professional design award in 2021.

B.S., Ohio State University; M.I.D., Pratt Institute; studied at Oxford University, England.