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"Luminous Art & Design :: Art & Artists"
Philippe Starck :: Biography and Books"
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Philippe Starck (1949- ) is a French designer and architect. He is known for his often provoking works in simple and fluid forms. His work varies from designing the lemon squeezer ‘Juicy Salif’ to a whole street block in Paris; La Rue Starck.
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Philippe Starck (1949- ) is a French designer and architect. He is known for his works in the style of New Design. His designs range from interior designs to mass produced consumer goods such as toothbrushes, chairs, and a computer mouse. His products are organic in their look, and show character with their simple and fluid forms. The products are often made from unusual combinations of materials and have poetic names. The works are also inimitable and often provoking.
Philippe Starck, son of an aeronautical engineer, was born in Paris on 18 January 1949. He spent hours of his childhood underneath his father’s drawing boards, drawing and cutting and gluing. In 1965, he started his studies of architecture at the École Nissim de Camondo in Paris, but dropped out two years later to work for Pierre Cardin. By the age of 19, he had established his first business – making inflatable objects.
In the 1970s, Philippe Starck started his career in interior decoration and fitted out the night-clubs of La Main Bleue (1976) and Les Bains-Douche (1978) in Paris. The success of the night-clubs won the attention of President Mittereand and in 1982 Philippe Starck was one of the designers commissioned to refurbish the private apartments of the Elysée Palace. This led to considerable media attention to Starck and his career started to climb.
Starck’s work in interior design continued and in 1984 he designed the interior of the Café Costes in Paris. Café Costes has become Le Café and made Philippe Starck into a design celebrity worldwide. One of the pieces of furniture that he designed for the café, was an elegant three-legged chair produced by Italian furniture manufacturer Driade. From then on he could choose any prestigious interior design commission in the world. He designed elegant interiors of hotels as the Royalton (1988) and Paramount (1990) for the entrepreneur Ian Schrager.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Philippe Starck designed many domestic items for mass production. He produced chairs, lamps and kitchen utensils for manufacturers as Driade, Idee and Disform. It was in collaboration with Alessi that Starck designed a long-legged lemon squeezer, the Juicy Salif (1990), which became his signature and is now an affordable and popular cult item.
Philippe Starck also created several lighting designs. In 1988 Philippe Starck developed the Ará, a horn-shaped metal table lamp that has been one of his most successful lamp designs. Other lamp designs on a small scale are Miss Sissi table lamps (1991) and Romeo Babe pendant light (1996) for Flos. Lighting design on a larger scale were the street lamps for Decaux (1992).
Philippe Starck’s designs are not only unusual in combinations of form and material, but unlike most other New Design products, Starck’s work concentrates more on the mass production than the single pieces. Objects designed by Philippe Starck can be seen in collections of a number of museums, among them the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and the Museum of Design in London.
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