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Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

Philippe Starck

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Philippe Starck
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 18
Architect
Businessperson
Designer
Paris
France
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Symbols
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Everything

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I am my brain's publisher.
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Freedom is the only style. That is why I never speak about beauty or beautiful products but good products... Nowadays, we have to face so many challenges,...so it is not really a priority to care for beauty. The only way for us is to focus on an ethic and ecological behaviour.
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I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the technical or commercial parameters so much as the desire for a dream that humans have attempted to project onto an object.
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I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.
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For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.
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Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what constitutes our eternal ceiling. The sky is one of the things that constructs us, one of our constants. But it is not what people believe. I should like to close this circle by turning over in my bed and scrutinizing the stars.
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Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary.
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In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.
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You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.
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Anyone can build a building that protects people from heat, sun and cold. What I am determined to do is to make a stage where people can be sexier and more brilliant, a place where they can awake smarter.
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Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.
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Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.
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Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.
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Design does not really interest me
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For the organic food, the less it's designed, the better it is
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Getting to the heart of things, is never easy
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Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.
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Design is a tool to help the tribe.
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Design is a dreadful form of expression
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