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.
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.
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].
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.
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.
honesty two elegance
Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.
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.