His work has been recognised with numerous awards from the design industry, including the Andrew Martin Interior Designer of the Year Award, 2011, the Homes & Gardens Award for Interior Design, 2012, and consistent nomination by House & Garden and Architectural Digest (France) as one of the top 100 leading designers since 2002.
He has been knighted by the French Republic as a Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite for his services to design.
Rabih’s continually evolving creative approach encompasses everything; from designing interiors to creating bespoke furniture for private clients; from designing new buildings to creating design concepts for developers. He sees little distinction between his practice as an architect and as an interior designer. “There should not be any separation between the disciplines,” he argues; “it’s about bringing out what’s best for a building that’s important, respecting what’s happened before, that makes a building special.”
Rabih has been a pioneer in many areas. He was a forerunner of the limited edition design movement, and has been working with designer-makers since the early 2000s to create unusual one off or limited edition furniture for clients and collectors. His online design think-tank, DeTnk, continues to identify new talent while publishing the Collectable Design Market Report, a highly anticipated annual analysis of auction house data on this growing market.