Assia Karaguiozova was born in Sofia in 1978 and studied economics and commerce in Milan, where she first worked in fashion photography on editorial and advertising campaigns. Her work sits between art and design, informed by a strong sense of product strategy and image and a particular sensitivity to sustainability and circularity in production.
For Riva 1920 she designed the Rosa del Deserto Stool (2024), worked from a single block of solid scented cedar. Named for the desert rose, its form evokes the agility with which nature interprets the many languages of the world.
