Philipe Starck is the first in series of designers and architects. From over 10,000 of his designs, we choose ones that most affected people' lives and design area.
3. 7. 2017
Phillipe Starck is the first designer whos works will go throught in our photo series. Gradually, we move from hotels, restaurants, political-cultural objects to the furniture that Starck has created.
In each part will learn something from life of designer. First part is dedicating to clarifying context in which Philippe Starck creates and so we can understand what is behind his visionary design.
Designers see space and objects in relation to environment where they have a particular purpose. Philipp Starck is a designer whose quality of work determine ideas that precede him.
Humanism, utility, humanity and service to planet, sustainability, idealism. His imagination reflects in rich inner meditation over relationship with environment and way building or project is affecting people's lives.
“Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous… this is how I see my duty as a designer.”
Starck vehemently believes this poetic and political, rebellious and benevolent, pragmatic and subversive duty should be shared by everyone. He sums it up with the humour that’s set him apart from the very beginning: “No one has to be a genius, but everyone has to participate.”
In the eyes of this accomplished citizen of the world, sharing his ethical and humanist vision of a more equal planet is a duty, if not a moral imperative, that results in unconventional projects, bearing fertile surprises.
His prophetic awareness of ecological implications, his deep understanding of contemporary mutations, his enthusiasm for imagining new lifestyles, his determination to change the world, his commitment to sustainable de-growth, his love of ideas, his concern with defending the intelligence of usefulness – and the usefulness of intelligence – have taken him from iconic creation to iconic creation.
From everyday products like furniture and lemon squeezers to revolutionary mega-yachts, intensely vibrant, stimulating and phantasmagorical hotels and the miraculous technologies of individual wind turbines and the electric car, he never stops pushing the limits and criteria of contemporary design.
It’s as a true visionary that he puts this art of innovation to the service of a design and democratic ecology, action-driven and respectful to both human and nature’s heritage.
