Philippe Starck

Philippe Starck is a Designer French, born the January 18th 1949 in Paris.

Known as well for his decorations of interiors as for his series productions of current consumer goods, Philippe Starck enjoys since the Eighties an international repute.

After studies with the School Nissim de Camondo in Paris, it founds its first company of design in 1968 (specialized in the design of inflatable objects). Since 1969, it starts to work in close cooperation with Pierre Cardin before being directed of independent, in 1975, towards the design of interior and the industrial design.

Starck was mainly devoted to creation in series of current consumables to the design balanced rather than with the design of single parts.

Context of a success

Prolific and inventive designer, Philippe Starck became the creator impossible to circumvent of the Eighties. Opportunist communicator as much as endowed, it knew to provide to the media a learnedly proportioned mixture of intellectualism, demagogy and spectacular, with the image of its counterpart in architecture, Jean Nouvel.
In the years 1980, for the Golden delicious Society of the years Mitterrand, Philippe Starck represented, in the connected effervescence of the moment, the legitimacy of the revival until it waited. Following the policies, a whole easy, avid urban class of social recognition, was offered to lower costs and less effort a label design easily reconnaissable.
Philippe Starck initially knew to sell his own image, like a strongly media consumable of mass. Many companies called upon its services to awake an obsolete brand image. The effect and the logo STARCK played full for médiatiser with the products in which the comfort of use was sometimes sacrificed to the advertizing impact.

Beyond the controversies which in France its achievements and its oversize ego caused, Philippe Starck remains one of the contemporary French designers most known abroad.

Biography

As of adolescence, it is impassioned for the drawing, certainly animated by his father who is manufacturer of planes. Starting from the medium of the the Sixties, Starck studies with the school Nissim de Camondo with Paris.

In 1968, it founds its first company which produces inflatable objects;
In the Seventies, it takes care of the interior decoration of the Parisian night clubs the country cottage of the lake, the blue hand (1976) and the public baths (1978);
In 1979, it founds the company " Starck Product" ;
In 1982, it renews the installation of the private apartments of the president François Mitterrand with the Elys3ee palace;
In 1984, carries out the déco Costes Coffee in Paris like that of other coffees and nightclubs, such as for example Manin with Tokyo and Teatriz with Madrid;
In 1988, with New York, it is responsible for the interior design of the hotels Royalton
In 1990, it deals with the hotel Paramount;
In 1991, in the Netherlands, it takes an active part in the construction of the Groningen Museum;
In 1989/1990, with the Japan, Starck constructs the building the Flame for the Brasserie Asahi, the office building Nani for Rikugo and, in 1991, the office building the green baron with Osaka for Meisei;

It is according to its plans that a whole series of particular residences appears, such as for example Lemoult (Paris 1987), the Angle (Antwerp 1991), 18 houses of report/ratio in Los Angeles (1991) and a residence particular to Madrid the same year; it in the same way conceived the plans for the buildings of the French cutlery Laguiole (1989) and for those of a factory of biological products close to Bordeaux (1991).

Design

Starck draws as of the Eighties a great number of individual pieces of furniture and collections of pieces of furniture which are manufactured by French establishments, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and suisses.
In the field of the industrial design, it creates the most various objects in series O.W.O., of the pastes for Panzani, the boats for Beneteau, the bottles for Glacier, the domestic apparatuses for Alessi, of the toothbrushes for Fluocaril, of the travel goods for Louis Vuitton, of the urban Mobilier for JC Decaux, of the pieces of furniture of office for Vitra, of the vehicles, the computers, the handles of door, the glasses, etc.
Since 2005, Starck is also designer at Virgin Galactic and Fossil.
Starck, living and always working in Paris, received for its works a great number of prices and decorations. Its creations are exposed in the collections of many European and American museums, inter alia with the Brooklyn Museum of New York, with the Musée of decorative Arts of Paris and with the Museum off Design of London.

Teaching

Professor with the Domus Academy (Milan).
Professor with the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of decorative Arts of Paris.

Principal achievements

the nightclubs the Blue Hand in 1976 and the Public baths in 1978
private apartments of the President of the Republic to the Elys3ee palace in 1982
the Costes Coffee in 1984
Factory of Real the Laguiole Cutlery/France in 1988
Nani Nani" in Tokyo in 1989 and " The Baron Vert" in Osaka/Japan, in 1990
the Royalton hotels in 1988 and Paramount in 1990
the hotel of Ian Schrager in London, St Martin' S lane Hotel and Sanderson Hotel
the seat of the Asahi breweries to Asakusa, Japan
the Waiting room of Eurostar at the station of the North of Paris
the foundation Baccarat with Paris.
the Aprilia 6.5 Motó in 1996

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