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
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.
anybody gleam nobody time
Every time I do a project, I always look around and see if (there's) anybody else out there who's exciting. And I go see everyone, but nobody has that little gleam in the eye.
corridor sort suddenly walk
(It's) sort of long corridor that you walk and suddenly you are green,
organic-food
For the organic food, the less it's designed, the better it is
humble successful simple
Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.
territory able kind
I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories,
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.
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.
elegance
Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.
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.
motivation children inspiration
In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.
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.
design genius monk
I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.