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There is no one way to describe Philippe Starck - architect, inventor, 'popstar', philosopher, celebrity, and all of these par excellence. But it is as a designer that he has made such a huge impact on contemporary culture.
As a child Starck was happy, cutting, gluing, sanding, dismantling bikes, motor cycles and other objects, spending endless hours taking apart and putting back together whatever came to hand.
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 Now, without doubt, Philippe Starck is the maker and shaper of our times. Starck has turned his hand to reinventing almost everything we encounter in our public and private lives. From lemonsqueezer to desk lamp, pasta to chairs, he accepts nothing and succeeds, it seems, at everything. Paris, New York, Munich, London, Chicago, Kyoto, Barcelona - all exhibit his work as that of a master.
From the mid-sixties, Starck attended the Ecole Nissim de Camondo in Paris, and he set up his first company in 1968 to produce inflatable objects. In the 1970s he fitted out the Paris night-clubs La Main Bleue (1976) and Les Bains-Douches (1978). In 1979 he founded the 'Starck Product' company.
As an interior designer he refurnished the private apartments in the ElysÈe Palace in Paris (1982) for President Mitterrand of France. He went on to design the interior of the Cafe Costes in Paris (1984), the Manin in Tokyo (1985) and Teatriz in Madrid (1990).
In New York he was responsible for the interior design of the Royalton and Paramount hotels (1988 and 1990), and played a leading part in the design of the Groningen Museum in the Netherlands in 1991.
In Japan, Starck was responsible for the La Flamme building commissioned by the Asahi brewery, the Nani Nani office building for Rikugo (both in Tokyo, 1989/90), as well as for the The green baron office block (1991) commissioned by Meisei in Osaka.
 He has also designed a number of private dwelling houses and apartment blocks, for example Lemoult in Paris (1987), The Angle in Antwerp (1991), 18 rental apartment buildings in Los Angeles (1991) and a private house in Madrid (1991). He has also designed commercial premises for the French cutlery company Laguiole (1989) as well as for an organic products manufacturer near Bordeaux (1991). In Paris a whole street block, La Rue Starck, is going up to his designs (1991).
In addition to all this, during the 1980s Starck designed numerous collections and individual items of furniture for manufacture by firms in France, Italy, Spain, Japan and Switzerland.
 In the field of industrial design, he has been responsible for the creation of a wide variety of objects in the O.W.O. series, noodles for Panzani, boats for Beneteau, mineral-water bottles for Glacier, kitchen appliances for Alessi, toothbrushes for Fluocaril, luggage for Vuitton, 'Urban Fittings' for Decaux, office furniture for Vitra, as well as vehicles, computers, door-knobs, spectacle frames, etc. Starck's work has brought him numerous prizes and awards; designer of the year, Grand Prix for Industrial Design, the Oscar for Design, Officier des Arts et des Lettres, and many more.
 Objects designed by him can be seen on display in the collections of a number of European and American museums, among them the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Musee des Arts DÈcoratifs in Paris, and the Museum of Design in London.
Further information...
address: Philippe Starck's Studio, 18/20, rue du Faubourg du Temple 75011 Paris FRANCE
tel: +33 (0) 1 48 07 54 54
fax: +33 (0) 1 48 07 54 64
email:
web: www.philippe-starck.com
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