architecture

future

good

luxury

product design

innovator in the field of

industrial design

occupation / innovator as

designer

architect

nationality

French

businessperson

interior design

is not about protecting people from heat, sun and cold, but rather about making a stage where people can be sexier and more brilliant, a place where they can awake smarter.

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.

is a humanist concept whch ought to replace beauty which is a cultural one.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

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.

is about considering the desire for a dream that humans have attempted to project onto an object.

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.

is about rediscovering why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It.

is not chiefly about function. A fancy juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons. It is meant to start conversations.

My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons... it is meant to start conversations

Philippe Starck

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