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...
expression design form
Design is a dreadful form of expression
ideas design vision
My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].
goodness humanist concepts
We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.
conversation lemons
My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations
yellow color mood
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.
corridor sort suddenly walk
(It's) sort of long corridor that you walk and suddenly you are green,
real fighting issues
Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of design.
men should-have needs
Working with Emeco has allowed me to use a recycled material and transform it into something that never needs to be discarded - a tireless and unbreakable chair to use and enjoy for a lifetime. It is a chair you never own, you just use it for a while until it is the next persons turn. A great chair never should have to be recycled. This is good consideration of nature and man kind.
light civilization design
In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal knowledge of physics, astrophysics, and perhaps mathematics, brings to light certain patterns that make these subjects easier to understand. It is striking to see the extreme similarity between these scientific propositions and the forms that recur in all times, places and civilizations.
Future is about dematerialisation.