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Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

Philippe Starck

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Philippe Starck
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 18
Architect
Businessperson
Designer
Paris
France
Ethical
Designer
Humorous
Duty
Political
Subversive
Ecological

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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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Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.
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We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.
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Design is a dreadful form of expression
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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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The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is
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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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Design is a tool to help the tribe.
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Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.
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I am my brain's publisher.
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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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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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For the organic food, the less it's designed, the better it is
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My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].
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Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary.
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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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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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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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Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.
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Future is about dematerialisation.
Philippe Starck