Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck is a French designer known since the start of his career in the 1980s for his interior, product, industrial and architectural design including furniture and objects that have simple but inventive structures...
dream desire trying
I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the technical or commercial parameters so much as the desire for a dream that humans have attempted to project onto an object.
doors people brain
I like to open the doors to people's brain.
design tools tribes
Design is a tool to help the tribe.
symbols
Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.
humorous political designer
Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.
luxury design quality
For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.
honesty two elegance
Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.
genius obliged
No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.
waiting brain magazines
I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.
unnecessary
Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary,
people sun determined
Anyone can build a building that protects people from heat, sun and cold. What I am determined to do is to make a stage where people can be sexier and more brilliant, a place where they can awake smarter.
beautiful priorities focus
Freedom is the only style. That is why I never speak about beauty or beautiful products but 'good products'. Nowadays, we have so many challenges; it is not really a priority to care for beauty. The only way for us is to focus on an ethic and ecological behaviour.
creativity sickness
I have this mental sickness called creativity
beautiful mean opposites
The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does not mean anything. Only coherence counts. An object, design or not, is primarily an object that meets the parameters of human intelligence, which reconciles opposites. The lack of humor is the definition of vulgarity.