Raad Ghantous (born in
Baghdad,
Iraq)
is an
interior designer who was involved in the redesigning of the Cultural Center in
San Clemente.
Early life
His mother was half
Lebanese and half
Assyrian
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* Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia.
* Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire.
** Early Assyrian Period
** Old Assyrian Period
** Middle Assyrian Empire
** Neo-Assyrian Empire
* Assyrian ...
, of the
Chaldean Catholic
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church.
His father was an
Eastern Orthodox civil engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing ...
, he was born in Iraq.
His grandfather moved to Iraq from
Haifa, (then in
Mandatory Palestine) because of the educational facilities available in Iraq, later on his father and the family moved to
Abu Dhabi
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...
but didn't settle as they left for
Kuwait, where Raad had attended high school and then he received a degree in economics at the
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History
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in
Leysin.
He later on sought refuge in the
United States, where he decided to undertake a course in interior design and received his degree.
Career
He soon landed a job for Whimberly Allison, Tong & Go and has also worked for
Hirsch-Bedner and Design 1. He has designed many projects such as a mansion in Beverly Hills, his work has proven successful and rewarding as the location of most of his projects are in exotic places such as
Spain,
China
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,
Japan
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and the
United Arab Emirates.
He soon started his own interior business, Raad Ghantous & Associates, in which he imports accessories from
Morocco and
Egypt to accompany his work.
He currently serves on the Design Committee in the LA Downtown Business Association.
Furthermore, Raad is a big supporter of the progressive democratic party and socialist parties.
References
External links
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Artists from Baghdad
American people of Assyrian descent
American people of Iraqi descent
American people of Lebanese descent
American people of Palestinian descent
Iraqi businesspeople
Iraqi Eastern Catholics
Iraqi interior designers
Iraqi people of Lebanese descent
Iraqi people of Palestinian descent
Chaldean Catholics