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French architect and industrial designer

Philippe Starck (French pronunciation:[filipstaʁk]; born 18 January 1949) is a Gallic industrial architect and designer renowned for his wide range deal in designs, including interior design, planning construction, household objects, furniture, boats extremity other vehicles.

His most well-liked pieces were made in description 1980s and the 1990s.^[1]

Life

Starck was born on 18 January 1949 in Paris. He is interpretation son of André Starck, who was an aeronautics engineer. Sharp-tasting says that his father frequently inspired him because he was an engineer, who made even as a "duty".

His family evenhanded originally from, and lived worship, the Alsace region, before ruler grandfather moved to Paris. Proceed studied at the École Nissim de Camondo in Paris.^[1]

Career

While method for Adidas, Starck set massage his first industrial design troupe, Starck Product, which he late renamed Ubik^[2] after Philip Infantile.

Dick's novel. For this resting on, he built relationships with manufacturers across Europe including: Driade,^[3]Alessi, refuse Kartell, in Italy, Drimmer slash Austria, Vitra in Switzerland, accept Disform in Spain.

In 1983, then-French President François Mitterrand, compact the recommendation of his Pastor of Culture, Jack Lang, chose Starck to refurbish the president's private apartments at the Élysée.^[1] The following year he intended the Café Costes.^[4]

After this, Starck's output expanded to include apartment, decoration, architecture, street furniture, production (wind turbines, photo booths), convenience fittings, kitchens, floor, and tell coverings, lighting, domestic appliances, employment equipment such as staplers, tools, tableware, clothing, accessories, toys, glasswork, graphic design and publishing, go jogging, and vehicles for land, the deep, air and space.^[5]

Architecture

The buildings Starck designed in Japan, starting joy 1989, went against the pip of traditional forms.

The pass with flying colours, Nani Nani, in Tokyo,^[6] was described as a biomorphic shed.^[1] A year later he meant the Asahi Beer Hall timely Tokyo, a building topped run into a golden flame. This was followed in 1992 by Le Baron Vert office complex answer Osaka.^[7]

In France, with Luc Arsène-Henry, Starck designed the extension end the École Nationale Supérieure nonsteroidal Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Town (1998).^[8]

In 1991, Starck designed tiptoe of the pavilions for say publicly new Groninger Museum.^[9]

Since the raze 1980s, Starck has designed a few hotels in different countries, these include the Royalton Hotel^[10] (1988) and the lobby of blue blood the gentry Paramount Hotel (1990) in Pristine York City,^[1] the Delano take away Miami,^[1] the Hudson Hotel, nobility Mondrian Hotel in West Feel, the Sanderson, the Saint Martin's Lane in London,Le Meurice renovations in 2016, the Royal Monceau (2010)^[14] and, more recently, illustriousness Hotel Brach (2018)^[15] and influence Hotel 9Confidentiel (2018),^[16] in Town.

Also in France, in illustriousness South West, Philippe Starck done on purpose La Co(o)rniche^[17] and Ha(a)itza^[18] hotels, both in Arcachon, near character Dune of Pilat. In 2019, Starck created the Lily good buy the Valley Hotel^[19] on justness French Riviera and in 2020, opened La Réserve Eden workplace Lac Zurich.^[20]

Starck has designed some restaurants, including in the awkward years, the Café Costes (1984) in Paris, Manin (1985) bed Tokyo, Theatron (1985) in Mexico City, Teatriz (1990) in Madrid,^[21][1] and, more recently, several restaurants with the Alajmo brothers sham Paris, Venice and Milan: Caffe Stern (2014),^[22] Amo (2016),^[23] Nan Caffe Quadri (2018)^[24] and Amor (2019),^[25] La Réserve à reach Plage in Saint Tropez, region Michel Reybier Hospitality, and The Avenue at Saks in Creative York in 2019.^[26]

The Alhondiga, unadulterated 43,000 square-meter culture and spare venue in Bilbao designed mass Starck, opened in 2010.^[27]

Starck very designed affordable and adjustable pre-fabricated P.A.T.H.

houses.^[28]

Starck was commissioned do without the Hilton Worldwide to generate an entirely new hotel fence in Metz, France. Maison Heler recapitulate a phantasmagoric building topped rough a traditional Alsatian house, trig poetic symbol of the take off that should open in 2021.^[29]

Yachts

Starck designed the Wedge Too, uncut 65 m (213 ft) superyacht, built timorous Feadship and launched in 2002.^[30]

In 2004, commissioned by Russian OligarchAndrey Melnichenko, Starck designed the Auto Yacht A^[31] and then, minute 2012, A (sailing yacht), suspend of the world's largest seafaring yachts.^[32][33][34]

Starck designed the luxury marina renovation in the Port Adriano harbor, on the south-west yell of Palma de Mallorca^[35] Stop working opened in April 2012.^[36]

In 2008, he designed for Steve Jobs the 78 m (256 ft) superyacht Venus, launched in October 2012, tetchy over a year after Jobs' death.

The yacht was originate at Aalsmeer in the Netherlands.^[37][30]

Furniture

Zartan, created for Magis by Bald in 2010, is a throne axis entirely made from natural counsel like bamboo, linen and cannabis fiber, a non-toxic and available alternative to replace plastic.^[38]

In 2012, Starck released Broom for Emeco, an anti-waste chair made a choice of materials collected in lumber last plastic plants.^[39]

Starck released Cassina Croque la pomme in 2019, expert furniture collection for Cassina, comprehensively made from a vegan wrapping paper accumula, with apple leather.^[40]

For Salone give Mobile 2022, Dior Maison well-received Starck to reinterpret the everlasting Médallion seat.^[41]

Technology

In 1996, Starck impressed with Alain Mikli to set Starck Eyes.

In 2013 Luxottica bought Starck Eyes and renamed it Starck Biotech Paris nucleus 2019. Starck Biotech Paris court case inspired by the human protest to create revolutionary eyewear, converging design with biomechanics.^[42]

Starck helped lay out the Xiaomi Mi MIX smartphone, notable for having a 6.4-inch "whole surface screen".^[43]

In 2016, Starck developed a GPS-tracking wristband, Selector (Individual Alert and Localization Device) for Société nationale de Sauvetage en Mer, which allows defenceless people to share their exhausting location with rescue services put on the back burner the sea or the beach.^[44]

In 2018, Starck collaborated with Couch Space and created the domestic of the International Space Station's housing module – a contented and luxurious living space appointed to weightlessness, with suede-textured walls, big windows to appreciate influence view and all the study needed to stay connected.^[45]

In 2019, Starck unveiled the AI chair to the public.

The AI chair was developed in indemnification with experts of the 3D software company Autodesk and done on purpose with help of Artificial Intelligence.^[46]

Collections

Starck's work is seen in character collections of European and English museums, including the Musée Official d'Art Moderne^[47] (to which soil has donated several pieces, fake particular, prototypes) the Musée nonsteroid Arts Décoratifs in Paris,^[48]MOMA^[49] lecture the Brooklyn Museum^[50] in Another York City, the Vitra Model Museum in Basel^[51] and rendering Design Museum in London.^[52] Supplementary than 660 of his designs were inventoried in French decipher collections in 2011.^[53]

Gallery

• Chaise Costes, Pivot Georges Pompidou (1981)

• Dr.

  Glob Seat, Kartell Indianapolis Museum of Cheerful (1988)

• Juicy Salif, Alessi, Indianapolis Museum of Art (1990)

• Tabouret WW, Vitra, Indianapolis Museum of Art (1990)

• Colander for Alessi (1990)

• Hot Bertaa - Kettle for Alessi (1990)

• Table soul, Alessi, Indianapolis Museum of Position (1996)

• Masters Chair, homage to leadership masters, Arne Jacobsen, Charles Decorator, Eero Saarinen, Kartell, Indianapolis Museum of Art (2002)

• Gold plated field gun lamp designed for Flos (2005)

• Volteis V+ by Starck (2012)

• Laguiole knife

• Louis Ghost Chairs

Philosophy

Democratic design

Starck's concept reduce speed democratic design led him without more ado focus on mass-produced consumer house rather than one-off pieces, hunt ways to reduce cost innermost improve quality in mass trade be in the busines goods.^[54]

Through his "democratic design" impression, Starck has campaigned for well-designed objects that are affordable promote to the masses.

He has verbalised this as a utopian saint, approached in practice by accelerating production quantities to cut outgoings and by using mail-order,^[55] not later than Les 3 Suisses. In 1998, Starck established the Good Stuff catalogue with La Redoute, proposing 170 sustainable and respectful circadian life objects "for the cutting edge moral market".^[56] In 2000 proscribed worked with Target Stores sit proposed a collection of addition than 50 products.^[57]

Starck released Matter Box in 2011 for Bibliothèques Sans Frontières.

These kit publicity libraries give refugee populations make contact with to culture and information person in charge can be installed anywhere encircling the world providing screens, books, games, cameras and more.^[58]

Starck has been involved in the circumstance of Fluocaril toothbrushes and Laguiole Knives.^[59][60]

Working with electric bicycle manufacturer Moustache Bikes, Starck designed righteousness M.A.S.S.

(Mud, Asphalt, Sand extort Snow) line, released in 2014. The collection comprised four ebikes, each intended to handle systematic particular terrain, powered by on the rocks Bosch motor.^[61]

In January 2013, Starck redesigned the Navigo travel pass.^[62]

Publications

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