Philippe Starck: His Furniture, Biography and Designs
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Philippe Starck: Furniture and Dreams
Philippe Starck is one of the most famous designers in the world. This page explores the life and work of one of France's most well known and successful sons. Known throughout the world as an enterprising product designer, a talented architect and a magnificent interior designer, Philippe Starck is one of the most interesting characters on the present design scene. Continue reading for more fascinating information about the man who designed the Bubble Club Sofa and the famous Starck Lemon Squeezer.
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Starck's Early Years
During his youth, Starck spent many hours underneath the drawings boards of his father. There he watched him creating and dismantling various objects such as bicycles, motor bikes and a wide range of other objects. Starck's life, from this early experience in his father's workshop would lead to a career in remodelling the world around him. A philosophy that has since made his name famous across the globe.
After his secondary education in Paris under the guidance of Jesuits at École Nissim de Camondo, Philippe Starck went into the world of entrepreneurial design. Just before his 20th birthday, he established an inflatable objects business, which was to be the first step in a long and lucrative career. Once his talent was spotted and word got around, many new design offers were to appear.

Philippe Starck pondering life
Starck's Career Development
Starck's remarkable career has been ubiquitous in its scope. He is widely considered as a product designer, an interior designer, an architect and even an ecologist. The latter earned him commissions to design a Bordeaux airport control tower, a Parisian recycling plant and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (an artistic school of decorative arts) in the French capital, Paris.
In 1982, one of his most famous commissions involved re-designing the private quarters at the Elysée Palace. President Mitterand was a great admirer of the charismatic French designer. Soon after this remarkable period he went on to re-decorate the Paramount and Royalton hotels in New York leading to a massive flurry of further accolades. Japan too saw Starck's trademark expressionist architecture with a serious of innovative buildings across the island nation.

Philippe Starck takes a breather
Philippe Starck: The Man
Philippe Starck is very much driven by a strong sense of duty, even some might say, fate, in the typical Gallic fashion. His desire and view for a world bettered through design and innovation is as strong as it has ever been. The mundane aspects of life are changed under his gaze, to exciting and unique visions that are uniquely his but which capture people's imaginations.
Ordinary every day objects such as door handles, knives, ash-trays, scooters, lemon squeezers, vases, bikes, taps and toilets have been taken apart, revamped, re-designed, changed sometimes beyond comprehension by the imaginative hands of Starck. Nothing is free from analytical study and then evolution when he is near. His life is fascinating and indeed, he finds the world around him to be outstandingly interesting as well.
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Starck's Brand
Recently Philippe Starck has moved into a new sector of design, that of fashion. He has designed clothing ranges, toilet items, spectacles and most successfully and famously of all, watches.
Although a global brand and a hugely successful individual, Philippe Starck has retained an almost childlike quality to his personality. Maybe that is not hard if you own 19 homes like he does. However, his boyishly industriousness mixed with his distracted "French intellectual" style hint at the amazing talent and mind that lie behind some of the greatest visual designs of the 20th Century.

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Blog Posts Mentioning Philippe Starck
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- Philippe Starck And Emeco Introduce A Chair Made From Sawdust
- And for decades the Navy was the manufacturer's only product--that is, until Philippe Starck came along in 1998 to give it a much-needed brand refresh. That collaboration not only saved the business--the Hanover, Pennsylvania?based company was on the ...
- Revealed: Philippe Starck's Highly Anticipated Design for SLS Hotel South Beach
- by Cristina Horta Sbe has revealed exclusive details behind SLS Hotel South Beach, which is being designed by creative icon Philippe Starck. The encore to the internationally acclaimed SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills, the SLS Hotel South Beach creates a ...
- Philippe Starck Walks Us Through His SLS South Beach Designs
- We're just weeks away from being able to do that at SLS South Beach, and in the meantime we have the next best thing to walking through the hotel itself--uber-designer Philippe Starck walking us through his designs. We asked what we could expect from ...
- NY Design Week 2012: Broom Chair by Philippe Starck for Emeco
- American chair manufacturer Emeco continues to make good green use of discarded materials with Broom, a stackable, Philippe Starck-designed seat made from a whopping 90 percent pre-consumer factory waste. If there was one discernable micro-trend at ...
News Stories Mentioning Philippe Starck
From across the world
- Philippe Starck And Emeco Introduce A Chair Made From Sawdust
- And for decades the Navy was the manufacturer's only product--that is, until Philippe Starck came along in 1998 to give it a much-needed brand refresh. That collaboration not only saved the business--the Hanover, Pennsylvania?based company was on the ...
- Revealed: Philippe Starck's Highly Anticipated Design for SLS Hotel South Beach
- by Cristina Horta Sbe has revealed exclusive details behind SLS Hotel South Beach, which is being designed by creative icon Philippe Starck. The encore to the internationally acclaimed SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills, the SLS Hotel South Beach creates a ...
- Philippe Starck Walks Us Through His SLS South Beach Designs
- We're just weeks away from being able to do that at SLS South Beach, and in the meantime we have the next best thing to walking through the hotel itself--uber-designer Philippe Starck walking us through his designs. We asked what we could expect from ...
- NY Design Week 2012: Broom Chair by Philippe Starck for Emeco
- American chair manufacturer Emeco continues to make good green use of discarded materials with Broom, a stackable, Philippe Starck-designed seat made from a whopping 90 percent pre-consumer factory waste. If there was one discernable micro-trend at ...

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Amelia77
Mar 27, 2010 @ 12:00 am | delete
- Thanks for all of the great design information. Nice lens.
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starckdesigns Aug 26, 2009 @ 10:11 am | delete
- How could you not have heard of Philippe Starck?! He is like the world's best designer. I have a site on him, check it out: www.philippestarckdesigns.com
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Sojourn
May 24, 2009 @ 12:23 pm | delete
- I'd never heard of Starck either, but his designs are impressive and you have to love that wild personality. And 19 homes? I can't handle one! Nicely done. :)
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Evelyn_Saenz May 20, 2009 @ 6:10 pm | delete
- Very nice lens. I had never heard of Philippe Starck before.
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Ramkitten
May 20, 2009 @ 5:54 pm | delete
- Interesting and well done!
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