Philippe Starck (*1949 in Paris, France) studied at the private academy École Nissim de Camondo in Paris. During the early 1970s he worked for a short time as art director at Pierre Cardin, before establishing his own firm for interior architecture and product design. This step marked the beginning of a highly successful career in both fields: due at least in part to his mastery of self-presentation, Starck has become an internationally renowned "star designer" with an overwhelming number of projects and products. In terms of furniture, Philippe Starck's most important designs have been realized together with the Italian manufacturer Kartell, for all his plastic chairs such as Louis Ghost and La Marie or his Bubble Club Sofa and Armchair. However he regularly works with other manufacturers and, for example, in conjunction with Vitra developed his wonderfully free flowing Baobab desk; the inspiration for which allegedly, is the shape of the seed of the Baobab, or Upside-done tree. Philippe Starck currently divides his time between Paris, New York, London and Burano.
Whereas in years past we would have just blithely stated that January, as ever, saw us in Cologne for IMM Cologne and the Passagen design festival. January 2014 saw in context of the Passagen deign week the first in-store exhibition in the smow Cologne store:...
...The White City - Tel Aviv's Modern Movement opens at the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Kasarmikatu 24, 00130 Helsinki, Finland on Wednesday February 12th 2014 and runs until Sunday March 30th 2014 "Evil Things – An encyclopaedia of bad taste" at Hofmobiliendepot, Vienna, Austria Among the Philippe Starck quotes we included in our recent Design Calendar post was Starck's critique on Raymond Loewy's contention that "ugliness doesn't sell well... If we understand the press photos correctly, Philippe Starck is included in the exhibition...
..."Good morning is it possible to speak to Philippe Starck please?... A few months later we failed to secure an interview with Philippe Starck at Milan Design Week...
There may be no tables in the press room, but there are plenty to be found at ICFF... Eiermann 1 by Egon Eiermann from Lampert....ahhhhh, if only, if only if only. Polished chrome AND a place to rest your feet at hip level. Hhhhmmmmmm, perfection at work Oh...
Within the next 48 hours all christmas presents must be bought. Or else it’s back to writing vouchers for your nearest and dearest. And so before it’s all too late a few final gift ideas from smow. In particular we present here the Eiermann desk, the...
