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...
colors evening open speak spend
And you spend your evening in your color. The idea is to take things which open (your) mind, that speak to you -- the colors speak to you.
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.
goodness humanist concepts
We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.
expression design form
Design is a dreadful form of expression
unnecessary
Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary,
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.
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.
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.
humanity materiality
The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is
doors people brain
I like to open the doors to people's brain.
elegance
Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.
dream stars believe
Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what constitutes our eternal ceiling. The sky is one of the things that constructs us, one of our constants. But it is not what people believe. I should like to close this circle by turning over in my bed and scrutinizing the stars.