Philippe Starck

A world-renowned French designer, Philippe Starck (1949) is the son of an aeronautical engineer and admittedly inherited his father’s creative flair to be applied “as if it were a duty”. He has more than 10,000 creations to his credit, each of which “must improve the lives of as many people as possible”, regardless of the form an object takes. Therefore, from his professional ethics point of view, it is crucial for “an object to be useful before being beautiful”. Starck studied at the École Camondo in Paris and began his career in the 1970s working at Quasar, where he designed an inflatable house, and at the Cardin fashion house, for which he created furniture lines. In 1974, he moved to the USA, but then returned to Paris two years later. Here, in 1979, he founded the company Starck Products to market his previous creations, especially everyday objects such as watches, ....

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