How old is Philippe Starck?
Philippe Starck, (born January 18, 1949, Paris, France), French designer known for his wide range of designs, including everything from interior design to household objects to boats to watches. He also worked as an architect.
What is Philippe Starck’s approach to design?
This has always been Philippe Starck’s combat, from democratic design to democratic ecology; he wishes above all to create accessible, ecological objects for the largest possible audience.
Why choose Philippe Starck for your bathroom design?
Since the 1980s, Philippe Starck has been creating ‘wows’ and setting international benchmarks with his design. He has also spent more than 20 years working on bathroom design in collaboration with AXOR. A pioneer of the bathroom. In 1994, AXOR and Philippe Starck triggered a revolution with the Salon d‘eau. The first modern bathroom/living space.
What did Philippe Starck say about his father's influence?
Philippe Starck believes that it was his father's influence that has helped with the longevity of his own career. “My father used to tell me that for a plane to fly you need to be creative, but for it to stay up you need rigor.”
Introduction
"Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous… this is how I see my duty as a designer.” Philippe Starck
Exterior Architecture And Living Spaces
Although he considers himself no more an architect than designer, in the early 1980s Philippe Starck designed several buildings in Japan, with forms previously unseen. The first was in Tokyo, completed in 1989, and is striking in its originality.
Hotels
Ever since his first creations, Philippe Starck hasn’t stopped revolutionising the codes of the hotel world. From the 1980s onwards he made his mark on the hotel industry and those years saw a flamboyant revolution. Along with Ian Schrager, Starck offered a new approach and new codes to hotel conception starting with the Royalton in New York.
Restaurants
Philippe Starck understood long ago that a venue or a space cannot exist without a story – a heritage rich in sense – that remains timeless and universal. Because for Philippe Starck, telling a story is consubstantial with the creative process: the meaning nourishes the form.
Democratic Design And Daily Objects
From the beginning his designs were never intended for the elite, but for society as a whole. He longs for democratic design, and proffers an illuminating definition: “Improving the quality while striving to make it accessible to the greatest number of people, at affordable prices.”
HYGIENE
Among the numerous objects in our daily lives to which he’s given his mischievous touch, some are now iconic design pieces. He has created elements for the bathroom (for Duravit, Hansgrohe, Hoesch, Axor), and a toothbrush (Fluocaril, 1989).
BODY
A designer in love with heightened senses and dreamlike vitality, Starck doesn’t look down on the poetry of mundanity. Keen on nourishing the body as well as the soul, he perfected an innovative tubular structure that guarantees the Pasta Panzani will be cooked to al dente faultlessness every time (1996).
Cape Cod
It's not a coincidence that Philippe Starck’s bathroom range is named after a peninsula on the east coast of America. "Everyone dreams of a hut on a sand dune at the beach, everyone has their own Cape Cod.“
A Mecca for intellectuals and the wealthy
The peninsula in south Massachusetts has an area of 255,260 acres; it was first settled by the Mayflower Pilgrims in 1620. Since then, Cape Cod has more and more become a Mecca for intellectuals and the wealthy, and even today is a preferred destination for the rich and famous of Boston and New York.
Lobster emblem
Even today, "Cape Cod" lives off the carefree spirit of New England. Especially right up in Provincetown you find an easy-going, relaxed atmosphere.
Eponymist
A piece of organic architecture for everyone is Philippe Starck’s bathroom range Cape Cod, which sees the bathroom as a place of revitalization for the eye, body and soul – just like the magical place after which the range is named.
