Why is philippe starck so influential

The Juicy Salif is based on the shape of a squid with its legs greatly elongated. The original citrus squeezer is 29cm tall and made from cast aluminium with a mirror polish.

The Juicy Salif as an everyday fruit juicer is not functional. Its design is not genius in terms of usability. And at this point, it is clear that if you are after a juicer that actually juices your fruit, go with a conventional cheap juicer. It will work far better. Are there simple rules that you and I can follow to start creating iconic objects of our own? Arguably, the most iconic and controversial piece here is the Juicy Salif, designed by Starck for the home goods retailer Alessi in , and which by had sold , plus pieces.

Passers-by can see it all happening through the windows. There he offered an entirely new conception of urbanism, blurring the boundaries between port and the boats, the sea and the land. On the site of an old structure at the entrance to the Saint Ouen Flea Market on the outskirts of Paris, a large building in brick, concrete panels and zinc was constructed in With the external architecture of the restaurant Ma Cocotte, Philippe Starck pays tribute to the typical buildings of the neighbourhood and its inhabitants, a kingdom of market traders whose authenticity and effervescence has long fascinated him.

This honest architectural vision, cultivated within the rules of art, favouring life in all its forms will organically continue to develop elsewhere over the next few years. Le Nuage, which saw the light of day in in Montpellier, has established itself as a poetic destination, a vertical village, conducive to the socialising of all tribes, complete with cultural, sporting and relaxing activities. Enveloped with a transparent membrane in polymer known as ETFE, this is the first inflatable private building to be made in Europe.

With the P. Prefabricated Accessible Technological Homes project, available since October , Philippe Starck offers a new take on individual, hi-tech pre-fabricated houses destined for as many people as possible.

Eclectic, bustling and full of determined energy in it will be endowed with a new cultural and polymorphous life. It will be home to a hotel, exhibition halls, theatres and cinemas, metamorphosing into an indispensable epicentre of creativity.

The architectural ensemble has been restored with the utmost respect for its historic heritage. It will be surrounded by a park with covered stalls selling the work of local craftsmen and artisans.

This ethical approach, for everyone, from the architecture of buildings, public spaces and the multifunctional modular urban furniture for JC Decaux , realised in absolute symbiosis with its human and topographical context, to his numerous interior projects for restaurants and hotels, is expressed in a truly global manner.

From the s 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.

While most of his hotels have taken other paths Royalton, Mondrian, Delano, Sanderson and St Martins , Phillipe Starck has none the less made his mark on hotel design with these original creations. Every project is a destination that generates emotions and experiences. The hotels are no longer venues of fleeting impersonal passage but living spaces distilled with friendly, fun signs and fertile surprises.

It has the unique concept of a double entrance, where one is for the exclusive use of the clientele and the other for the general public, opening into what is known as the Bazaar. It has something of the village square about it. This collaboration with the hotel chain belonging to the visionary entrepreneur Sam Nazarian continues today: new SLS hotels have opened with the same success in South Beach Miami , with other versions on the horizon in New York, Miami Brickell as well as Philadelphia and Seattle Starck is revolutionary in his refusal of an exclusive approach.

From the s onwards Starck committed himself to another revolution, that of the democratisation of quality, designer hotels. This human-centric approach has led Philippe Starck to develop projects that contribute essentially to the process of democracy of the hotel industry. In he applied this generous, humanist idea to Paris in the design of the Mama Shelter.

This hotel bears witness to the new social values of an open minded cultural tribe founded on rigour, honesty, humour, intelligence and sharing.

Conscious that the hotelier business must reflect the movements and flux of the world and its ideas, in he started reinterpreting the codes of Parisian luxury hotels with vigour and fantasy, adding a dash of poetic and surreal folly to the oldest five-star hotel in the French capital, Le Meurice. He added new notes to his score in with the introduction of yet more mystery and humanity to the palace spaces.

He applied his artistic direction once again in to the Royal Monceau, where he wrote a fantastical and previously unseen script where every room is imbued with the cultural energy of an imaginary occupant. Philippe Starck broke with custom and thrust the heritage of a luxury hotel embodying Parisian heritage into another timeless, whimsical dimension.

To rediscover this rebellious and subversive spirit that manages simultaneously to be very elegant, detached and noble. This emblematic venue in the Bay of Arcachon, a landscape so dear to Philippe Starck, will rediscover its life and panache of former times in summer 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. Always different, his scenarios provide a link with those who create the soul of a place, by respecting an approach intimately articulated around subversion, humour, creativity and poetry among others.

Whatever the project, Starck enjoys highlighting its singular pulse, its special vibration, to create a venue in harmony with its environment while lighting its romantic flame. One iconic venue has followed another in the biggest cities around the globe with the Teatron restaurant in Mexico , then the Teatriz in Madrid , the Felix restaurant in Hong Kong , and in Paris the Palais de Cristal for the Maison Baccarat and its restaurant the Cristal Room Baccarat, the restaurants Bon I and Bon II dedicated to organic and healthy eating, and for the US the eponymous Katsuya chain arrived in Los Angeles in All of these venues have come alive under his direction.

The same year Philippe Starck opened the Mori Venice Bar, a venue that has allowed him to share his passion for a fanciful Venice and its elegant gastronomy. Ever loyal to this love, he refurbished the space in In he unveiled an equally subversive and Manichaean vision of the world with the Bon restaurant in Moscow. In Beijing he concocted a theatrical extravaganza for the m2 restaurant Lan, opened in , where the abundance of objects and materials as well as the miscellanea of styles transport the diner on a surreal journey.

Starck never stops thinking about the venues, giving them meaning. More than just an architectural gesture Philippe Starck designs living spaces conducive to creativity, to be shared between friends and family, just like Ma Cocotte , the new restaurant in the heart of the famous Saint Ouen Flea Market, a place that means so much to Philippe Starck.

The space is constructed like bridges between culture and life, celebrating the rite of the meal between family and friends. A common thread effortlessly pulls these plus architectural projects together as well as those in the pipeline a medical reception and research centre, two new hotels in Paris, hotel complexes in Singapore, New York, Philadelphia and Seattle.

What is humanity lacking? The only thing design can do is earn the right to survive, at least move in more humanist directions. His designs aim to serve more than the object; they aim to offer the best possible service while using the minimum of materials. This is powerfully demonstrated with the first ever Ideas Box, deployed in January in the Great Lakes region of Burundi. The Ideas Box, a portable multi-media library created by Philippe Starck for Libraries without Borders, offers populations exposed to humanitarian crises access to the Internet, books, various teaching aids, not to mention theatre and film.

Since then the principal of the Ideas Box has been successfully rolled out in more than 11 countries. From the beginning his designs were never intended for the elite, but for society as a whole. He believes that sincere, modern elegance comes from the multiplication of an object, as opposed to the ideology of limited editions, where premeditation on rarity leads to a selection through money rather than necessity.

This approach, aiming to provide the largest number of people with the best quality, has been deployed by Philippe Starck in all domains: from tableware to issues concerning the body and hygiene. He has created elements for the bathroom for Duravit, Hansgrohe, Hoesch, Axor , and a toothbrush Fluocaril, By creating objects that put function before beauty, Philippe Starck designs exist in our daily lives thanks to their humanity and their intelligence.

His creations make our existence and even the most anodyne have an allure that reveals their secret poetry. So the toothbrush metamorphoses into a friendly landmark in the bathroom, like a nod of encouragement, a work of sculpture all whilst being rigorously functional.

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 In , in collaboration with scientific adventurer David Edwards, the designer imagined an aerosol, the WAHH, which procures the feeling of being drunk in a single squirt, without the less desirable side effects.

This little object explores new unchartered territory of aerosol food and the exponential relationship between trace amounts being ingested and the taste and effect felt. Many years of research and work finally allowed Starck and the champagne house Louis Roederer to introduce the Brut Nature vintage in September This zero-dosage vintage is as much the fruit of a prestigious terroir as a unique collaboration between a champagne house, its cellar master and a designer. The skin and the body do not lie.

A visionary pioneer of our contemporary habits, the designer anticipated the complete integration of objects in to the human body with the Starck Watch — powerfully announcing that the watch will not only be digital but will also provide a platform of services. With his sensitivity to the multiple dimensions of existence it was inevitable that he would get involved with clothes.

For Puma he designed intelligent shoes and for his Starck Naked brand he created underwear that was both technological and sexy. In spring Ballantyne invited him to design a collection of clothes for men and women in cashmere. It must be protected. We must commit ourselves to loving life and to loving ourselves for at least 15 minutes a day. At home. Image credit. Possibly the best known contemporary designer alive today, Philippe Starck has turned his talents to everything from yachts to pasta shapes.

His interior designs have also been extremely influential worldwide — and, while he divides opinion, so eclectic are his creations that there really is something for everyone. Table — Minimum Table Cassina. All by Philippe Starck. More than one million Ghost chairs have been sold worldwide since Juicy Salif lemon squeezer, designed by Philippe Starck for Alessi, Philippe Starck — the nuts and bolts Born in Paris in to a family with roots in the Alsace region of north eastern France, Philippe Starck grew up in a home where design and invention were part of everyday life.

The high road to fame By the time he graduated, Starck was already attracting attention and his work was seen as very promising. Lobby, Delano South Beach Hotel, Miami, image credit The Starck design philosophy Although some may tell you they can spot a Starck interior instantly, that does not mean that these interiors are in any way uniform.

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