Philippe Starck Libros

"We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept." – Philippe StarckPhilippe Starck wants to bring love and happiness into your life by designing objects, environments, and appliances that will brighten your days. He spent his childhood under his father's drawing boards, sawing, cutting, gluing, and sanding, dismantling bikes, motorcycles and other objects. Several years and several prototypes later, he has changed life at the French presidential palace, the Italians have asked him to renew the notion of furniture, and he has turned the Royalton and Paramount in New York into the first classics of the new hotel world.Starck's overwhelming international success and cult-star status are proof that people everywhere are receptive to his kindhearted philosophy and distinctive aesthetic sensibility. The democratic design projects that he has undertaken with Target (USA) and j/ii (Japan), as well as the TASCHEN bookshops in Paris and Los Angeles and the Bon restaurant chain, are among the projects included in this volume that traces the entire career of today's foremost design superhero.  

International Design Yearbook 12 presents an international collection of the five major areas of domestic design -- furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles, and products -- created over the past year by both well-known designers and new talent. This year's selection emphasizes the need to reinvent design -- to reduce the design problem to a solution rather than a form. The challenges of new technology, recycling, and designing for the mass media are some of the themes highlighted by this year's designs. In addition to focusing on artists with an individual vision, those interested in recycling and reuse, and technologists, the selection highlights designs that have minimal forms and decoration, often meant for the mass market. Their anonymous character makes them appropriate for a wide variety of uses to meet the needs of society today. This volume includes full technical data for each object, designers' biographies, and an update of design acquisitions at major international museums.

This original edition from the exhibit in Paris has been in my possession since the publication date.