Designers

Philippe Starck - Rebellious and Unconventional designer

Anything that does not conform or is out of the ordinary is coined as "unconventional". Unconventional design ideas and unique decorations make your space truly your own original masterpiece. Your wall designs play a great part on this look. A dramatic, bold, large-scaled wall mural, for example, can enthrall your guests the moment they walk in your room. Find inspiration on these out-of-the-box styles from a designer whose truly rebellious and unconventional designs shook the world of interior designing: Philippe Starck.

by Photowall 2008-12-30

Philippe Starck

Philippe Starck – Rebellious and unconventional designer

Philippe Starck was born on January 18, 1949. He is a French designer who became famous for being a designer in the fields of interior, product development, industrial, and architecture. He studied at the Ecole Camondo in Paris. He believed that contemporary mutations, enthusiasm for imagining new lifestyles, determination to change the world, devotion to a positive reduction, love of ideas, desire to defend the intelligence of usefulness and usefulness of intelligence can create iconic masterpieces.

Accomplishments and contributions

Philip Starck’s first industrial company was named Starck Product, which he later renamed to Ubik. He started the company while shitll working with Adidas. With his company, he started working with different manufacturers in Italy, such as Driade, Alessi, Austria’s Drimmer, Vitra in Switzerland, and Disform of Spain. He focused on mass production of consumer goods rather than the one-off pieces. In this way cost is reduced and the quality is improved for the mass-market.

In 1983, Philippe Starck refurbushed the private apartments of the French President Francois Mitterand at the Elysee.

He then ventured in designing furniture, decoration, architecture, street furniture, industry, bathroom fittings, kitchens, floor and wall coverings, lighting, domestic appliances, office equipment, tableware, clothing, accessories, toys, glassware, graphic design, publishing, food and vehicles. Starting in 1989, the infrastructures he designed in Japan, opposed the traditional forms of design. Starck believed that design should take place within the environment but without impinging on it; an object must serve its context and become part of it.

TOKYO, JAPAN. The Asahi Flame at the top of Asahi Beer Hall in Sumida, designed by Philippe Starck.

In 1990, he designed the Asahi Beer Hall in Tokyo, which was followed by Le Baron Vert office complex in Osaka in 1992. While in France, he designed the extension of the Ecole nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris in 1998.
Starck also designed the Alhondiga in Bilbao which opened in 2010. In addition to this, he also designed the infrastructure for the Port Adriano harbor located on the south-west bay of Palma de Mallorca, which opened in 2012. Starck also designed the yacht of Steve Jobs which launched in 2012.  

GENOA, ITALY. Steve Jobs' luxury yacht. Designed by Philippe Starck, it is a 260 feet super yacht featuring state-of-the-art aluminum hull.

Philippe Starck also designed hotels around the globe for the past thirty years. Among these are the Royalton in New York, the Delano in Miami, the Mondrian in Los Angeles, the St. Martin’s Lane in London, Sanderson in London, and the complete renovation of the Clift in San Francisco. He also designed the Hotel Fasano in Rio de Janeiro in 2007 with the use of wood, glass, and marble.

In the 2000s, Philip Starck, together with Sam Nazarian, created the concept for SLS, which is a chain of luxury hotels.

Restaurants were also the favorite of Philip Starch. Among the restaurants he designed were Bon (2000), Mori Venice Bar (2006), and Le Paradis du Fruit (2009).