Philippe Stark

Philippe Stark was born in 1949, he stopped from school early so he started his career by designing two nightclubs interiors in Paris in the 70´s. Philippe had a great success from these two clubs, he was even asked from the President Francois Mitterrand to design one of his private apartment in the Elysee Palace. After designed the interior of the Cafe Costes in Paris. These gave him a great push in his career and he becoming more famous. He said that ´for me it was a duty to invent´ because his father was an aeronautical engineer.

His career started to get on the wright track, hue created interiors for the Royalton and Paramount Hotel in New York, Delano in Miami and Mondrian in Los Angeles. Philippe also started to design products such as motorcycles, boat, chairs, lamps, house hold utensils such as his Juicy Salif for Alessi (Lemon Juicer).

Concept boat - Philippe Stark 

Philippe Stark - Handless Kettle

                         

Louis Ghost Chair- Philippe Stark 

                                

Louis Ghost Chair- Philippe Stark 

In the 1980´s and 90´s he continued his portfolio by designing creative products. His products are related to him because of the characteristics and he give them personal identities, he usually named them poetically or whimsical names for example : Rosy Angelis Lamp, La Marie chair, Dr. No chair is usably seen in clubs, it is made from injected- moulded plastic. While the material and form seems to be contradictions, its just such paradoxes that make Stark´s work so compelling. 

Dr. No chair - Philippe Stark

Like Charlos and Ray Eames said that ´´they wanted to make the world a better place``. Philippe Stark wants to make the world a better place too, but his design are slightly different from Charles and Ray Eames design, Philipe Stark design are more futuristic but also organic. 

This is one of the designer that you don´t know from where actually he was inspired from because he tends to change his design often but he is inspired from organic designers and post modernism such as Eero Aarnio, Alvar Alto and other designers. Here we can see that Stark really inspired himself from Eero Aarnio.

British Modern Chair - Philippe Stark

Eero Aarnio - Egg Chair

Referencing :

Design Within Reach. 2014. Philippe Starck FRANCE (1949). [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.dwr.com/category/designers/r-t/philippe-starck.do. [Accessed 23 January 14].

Philippe Stark. 2013. Stark . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.starck.com/en/philippe_starck/biography/#to_know_more. [Accessed 23 January 14].

Polityką prywatności. 2011. Philippe Starck – twórca nowoczesnego wzornictwa. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.wsalonie.pl/a/895/philippe-starck-tworca-nowoczesnego-wzornictwa. [Accessed 23 January 14].

independent. 2004. The Secret History Of: Philippe Starck's lemon squeezer. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.independent.co.uk/property/interiors/the-secret-history-of-philippe-starcks-lemon-squeezer-1972849.html. [Accessed 23 January 14].

The Twenty Eleven Theame. 2001. You are a Nomad. [ONLINE] Available at: http://brimstonesandtreacle.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/you-are-a-nomad/. [Accessed 23 January 14].

AdmCreate. 2012. Interior Create. [ONLINE] Available at: http://interior-create.blogspot.com/2010/08/eero-aarnio-plastic-furniture-from.html. [Accessed 23 January 14].

North Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, . 2009. Kartell Los Angeles. [ONLINE] Available at: http://kartellstorela.com/shop/louis-ghost/. [Accessed 23 January 14].