Philippe starck inspiration

French architect and industrial designer (born )

Philippe Starck (French pronunciation:[filipstaʁk]; born 18 January ) is a French industrial architect and designer known for his wide range of designs, including interior design, architecture, household objects, furniture, boats and other vehicles.

His most popular pieces were made in the s and the s.^[1]

Life

Starck was born on 18 January in Paris. He is the son of André Starck, who was an aeronautics engineer. He says that his father often inspired him because he was an engineer, who made invention a "duty". His family is originally from, and lived in, the Alsace region, before his grandfather moved to Paris.

He studied at the École Nissim de Camondo in Paris.^[1]

Career

While working for Adidas, Starck set up his first industrial design company, Starck Product, which he later renamed Ubik^[2] after Philip K. Dick's novel. For this company, he built relationships with manufacturers across Europe including: Driade,^[3]Alessi, and Kartell, in Italy, Drimmer in Austria, Vitra in Switzerland, and Disform in Spain.

In , then-French President François Mitterrand, on the recommendation of his Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, chose Starck to refurbish the president's private apartments at the Élysée.^[1] The following year he designed the Café Costes.^[4]

After this, Starck's output expanded to include furniture, decoration, architecture, street furniture, industry (wind turbines, photo booths), bathroom fittings, kitchens, floor, and wall coverings, lighting, domestic appliances, office equipment such as staplers, utensils, tableware, clothing, accessories, toys, glassware, graphic design and publishing, food, and vehicles for land, sea, air and space.^[5]

Architecture

The buildings Starck designed in Japan, starting in , went against the grain of traditional forms.

The first, Nani Nani, in Tokyo,^[6] was described as a biomorphic shed.^[1] A year later he designed the Asahi Beer Hall in Tokyo, a building topped with a golden flame. This was followed in by Le Baron Vert office complex in Osaka.^[7]

In France, with Luc Arsène-Henry, Starck designed the extension of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris ().^[8]

In , Starck designed one of the pavilions for the new Groninger Museum.^[9]

Since the late s, Starck has designed several hotels in different countries, these include the Royalton Hotel^[10] () and the lobby of the Paramount Hotel () in New York City,^[1] the Delano in Miami,^[1] the Hudson Hotel, the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood, the Sanderson, the Saint Martin's Lane in London,Le Meurice renovations in , the Royal Monceau ()^[14] and, more recently, the Hotel Brach ()^[15] and the Hotel 9Confidentiel (),^[16] in Paris.

Also in France, in the South West, Philippe Starck designed La Co(o)rniche^[17] and Ha(a)itza^[18] hotels, both in Arcachon, near the Dune of Pilat. In , Starck created the Lily of the Valley Hotel^[19] on the French Riviera and in , opened La Réserve Eden au Lac Zurich.^[20]

Starck has designed several restaurants, including in the early years, the Café Costes () in Paris, Manin () in Tokyo, Theatron () in Mexico City, Teatriz () in Madrid,^[21][1] and, more recently, several restaurants with the Alajmo brothers in Paris, Venice and Milan: Caffe Stern (),^[22] Amo (),^[23] Gran Caffe Quadri ()^[24] and Amor (),^[25] La Réserve à la Plage in Saint Tropez, with Michel Reybier Hospitality, and The Avenue at Saks in New York in ^[26]

The Alhondiga, a 43, square-meter culture and leisure venue in Bilbao designed by Starck, opened in ^[27]

Starck also designed affordable and adjustable pre-fabricated P.A.T.H.

houses.^[28]

Starck was commissioned by the Hilton Worldwide to create an entirely new hotel in Metz, France. Maison Heler is a phantasmagoric building topped by a traditional Alsatian house, a poetic symbol of the region that should open in ^[29]

Yachts

Starck designed the Wedge Too, a 65&#;m (&#;ft) superyacht, built by Feadship and launched in ^[30]

In , commissioned by Russian OligarchAndrey Melnichenko, Starck designed the Motor Yacht A^[31] and then, in , A (sailing yacht), one of the world's largest sailing yachts.^[32][33][34]

Starck designed the luxury marina renovation in the Port Adriano harbor, on the south-west bay of Palma de Mallorca^[35] It opened in April ^[36]

In , he designed for Steve Jobs the 78&#;m (&#;ft) superyacht Venus, launched in October , just over a year after Jobs' death.

The yacht was built at Aalsmeer in the Netherlands.^[37][30]

Furniture

Zartan, created for Magis by Stark in , is a chair entirely made from natural material like bamboo, linen and hemp fiber, a non-toxic and biodegradable alternative to replace plastic.^[38]

In , Starck released Broom for Emeco, an anti-waste chair made of materials collected in lumber and plastic plants.^[39]

Starck released Cassina Croque la pomme in , a furniture collection for Cassina, entirely made from a vegan fabric, with apple leather.^[40]

For Salone del Mobile , Dior Maison invited Starck to reinterpret the timeless Médallion seat.^[41]

Technology

In , Starck worked with Alain Mikli to launch Starck Eyes.

In Luxottica bought Starck Eyes and renamed it Starck Biotech Paris in Starck Biotech Paris is inspired by the human body to create revolutionary eyewear, merging design with biomechanics.^[42]

Starck helped design the Xiaomi Mi MIX smartphone, notable for having a inch "whole surface screen".^[43]

In , Starck developed a GPS-tracking wristband, DIAL (Individual Alert and Localization Device) for Société nationale de Sauvetage en Mer, which allows endangered people to share their exact location with rescue services from the sea or the beach.^[44]

In , Starck collaborated with Axiom Space and created the interior of the International Space Station's housing module – a comfortable and luxurious living space adapted to weightlessness, with suede-textured walls, big windows to appreciate the view and all the technology needed to stay connected.^[45]

In , Starck unveiled the AI chair to the public.

Philippe starck furniture Starck's version of playtime was dismantling the machinery and putting it back together in his own way, much like his father. And he has consistently proved that another vision of consumerism is possible. Mikli glasses shop, Paris, France, Retrieved 31 October

The AI chair was developed in collaboration with experts of the 3D software company Autodesk and designed with help of Artificial Intelligence.^[46]

Collections

Starck's work is seen in the collections of European and American museums, including the Musée National d'Art Moderne^[47] (to which he has donated several pieces, in particular, prototypes) the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris,^[48]MOMA^[49] and the Brooklyn Museum^[50] in New York City, the Vitra Design Museum in Basel^[51] and the Design Museum in London.^[52] More than of his designs were inventoried in French public collections in ^[53]

Gallery

• Chaise Costes, Centre Georges Pompidou ()

• Dr.

  Glob Chair, Kartell Indianapolis Museum of Art ()

• Juicy Salif, Alessi, Indianapolis Museum of Art ()

• Tabouret WW, Vitra, Indianapolis Museum of Art ()

• Colander for Alessi ()

• Hot Bertaa - Kettle for Alessi ()

• Table center, Alessi, Indianapolis Museum of Art ()

• Masters Chair, homage to the masters, Arne Jacobsen, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Kartell, Indianapolis Museum of Art ()

• Gold plated gun lamp designed for Flos ()

• Volteis V+ by Starck ()

• Laguiole knife

• Louis Ghost Chairs

Philosophy

Democratic design

Starck's concept of democratic design led him to focus on mass-produced consumer goods rather than one-off pieces, seeking ways to reduce cost and improve quality in mass market goods.^[54]

Through his "democratic design" concept, Starck has campaigned for well-designed objects that are affordable to the masses.

He has expressed this as a utopian ideal, approached in practice by increasing production quantities to cut costs and by using mail-order,^[55] via Les 3 Suisses. In , Starck established the Good Goods catalogue with La Redoute, proposing sustainable and respectful everyday life objects "for the future moral market".^[56] In he worked with Target Stores and proposed a collection of more than 50 products.^[57]

Starck released Ideas Box in for Bibliothèques Sans Frontières.

These kit media libraries give refugee populations access to culture and information and can be installed anywhere around the world providing screens, books, games, cameras and more.^[58]

Starck has been involved in the development of Fluocaril toothbrushes and Laguiole Knives.^[59][60]

Working with electric bicycle maker Moustache Bikes, Starck designed the M.A.S.S.

Philippe starck watches Nani Nani building, Tokyo, Japan, Exterior Architecture And Living Spaces Although he considers himself no more an architect than designer, in the early s Philippe Starck designed several buildings in Japan, with forms previously unseen. The perfect culmination of a lifetime of research and vision, Yoo today has more than 50 projects spread over 27 countries — from Asia and Australia to America, Europe and the Middle East — with new constructions recently announced for Ecuador and Mexico. This lighting collection inaugurates a new archetype, that of an ethereal body, pure, almost immaterial, that lends itself to personalisation according to tastes and the creativity of each individual.

(Mud, Asphalt, Sand and Snow) line, released in The collection comprised four ebikes, each intended to handle a particular terrain, powered by a Bosch motor.^[61]

In January , Starck redesigned the Navigo travel pass.^[62]

Publications

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