Safwat Riad Designs Spaces That Bring People Together

Safwat Riad is a designer who creates spaces to be used. Very much embedded in the NYC design scene, his spatial work has taken him all over the city - from the Governors Ball to the 70s-inspired lounge at the Elsewhere club in Brooklyn. But his beginnings are rooted some 5,400 miles away in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, where he was born and raised.Riad, who now works out of a studio in Queens, moved to the US when he was in middle school. Contextually, the States was reeling from 9/11, with...