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...
heart easy
Getting to the heart of things, is never easy
humanity materiality
The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is
designer trainers coaches
In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant,
design doe interest
Design does not really interest me
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.
Future is about dematerialisation.
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.