Philippe Starck

Philippe Starck is a world class famous designer, born on 18th Jan 1949 in France. He is good at everything related to designing. Over the past years, he has been designing interiors, furniture, daily use products and much more. He entered into this field by starting his own design firm, and that was at the age of just 19. The firm concentrated on designing inflatable objects and the next year he became the director of the company along with Pierre Cardin.

In 1982, he got a chance to design the private apartments of Franois Mitterrand, the President of France of that time. This was a turning point in his career. Soon after this he started getting offers from across the world.

In the year 2002, he got an offer for designing products for Target Stores, one of the largest American retailers.

Starck always concentrates on designing things that don’t cost much. Hence his products are made of re-usable house hold products. This way, his products are available for pretty cheap prices when compared with others.

Starck has good experience dealing with furniture as well. He even worked for Kartell, an Italian manufacturer. Most of his furniture products are of polycarbonate plastic. Some of the products designed by him are world famous like the transparent Louis Ghost chair, Bubble Club sofa, Ero|S| chair and La Bohme stool.

The Felix restaurant-bar in Hong Kong is designed by Starck. The mens wash room has been designed in a great manner and is still famous because of the great design by Starck.

In the year 1988, he got a chance to do some re-designing of Royalton Hotel, one of the famous hotels in New York. That design made a lot of changes to the worldwide design industry. It was an amazing design that no hotel had ever seen.