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.

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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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Philippe Starck Biography Books on Amazon 

Philippe Starck (Universe Architecture Series)

From New York's famous Paramount Hotel to the official apartments of former French president Francios Mitterand, Philippe Starck's designs are as popular and as well-known as they are ubiquitous. You can stay in a Starck hotel in New York, Miami or London; you can mail-order a Starck design for a rural cottage; and you can buy a Starck motorcycle, a Starck lamp, or a Starck toothbrush.

Filled with photographs, descriptions, and Starck's own commentary, this book features his recent and current work in architectural and industrial design, including the forthcoming Covent Garden Hotel in London.

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This volume features the author's own compilation of quotations and aphorisms - the Stark philosophy in convenient form. Designs featured range from the three-legged lemon press to the fast food shop in Nimes. The text also includes architectural projects, interior design, and furniture. Select works are presented in chronological order, with emphasis on the more recent. Numerous photographs give a very personal view of the life and work of this designer.

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Philippe Starck Flickr Photos 

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