Karen Chekerdjian (born 1970 in Beirut, Lebanon) moved to Milan in 1997 to pursue a master's degree in industrial design at DOMUS academy, under the guidance of Massimo Morozzi, a founder of Archizoom.  She continued to work with Morozzi at Edra, where he was Art Director, in what effectively became a seminal and formative four-year mentorship from 1997 through 2000.  In 2001, Chekerdjian moved back to Beirut, where she founded Karen Chekerdjian Studio.