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.
Paris An Île; A Commune; A Context For all that the contemporary island of Paris has a long tradition of furniture production and usage, the greater part of that history, as can be read in the Bossu de Notre Dame, the oldest relic and most reliable witness of...
...And also by furniture, specifically furniture for the private apartment of the Élysée Palace, the official residence of the French President, including works by the likes of, and again amongst others, Annie Tribel, Marc Held or Philippe Starck... And who also granted, grant, so-called Cartes Blanches, in essence stipends, to young designers to enable them to develop projects free of commercial pressures, free of that which a Rolf Fehlbaum once deliciously denounced as the "unmerciful censor of all ideas"1: the first Carte Blanche recipients including the likes of, for example, Martin Szekely, Jean-Michel Wilmotte or Philippe Starck...
...And an essentially Postmodernist shift, something tending to be underscored not only by Superstudio's Papaveraceae-esque Bazaar as a herald of coming developments, but also by the presence in the chapter Nature at Work by the likes of Andrea Branzi or Philippe Starck, the latter's 1988 W...
Laut dem Antiquar Johannes von Lydien aus dem 6. Jahrhundert nach Christus "empfiehlt das Orakel, den ganzen Monat September über Milch zu trinken, um die Gesundheit zu erhalten".1 Milch mag für die körperliche Gesundheit von Vorteil sein, für die geistige...
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...
