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Philippe Starck, world famous creator with multifaceted inventiveness, is always focused on the essential, his vision: that creation, whatever form it takes, must improve the lives of as many people as possible.…
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Creation, whatever form it takes, must improve the lives of as many people as possible.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
An object must be useful before being beautiful.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous… this is how I see my duty as a designer.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
No one has to be a genius, but everyone has to participate.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
I don't care about legacy, it's an old idea because we don't consume time like we did before. Time is now simultaneous – before, it was linear. Today it is a wall in front of us. When time is a wall, there is no place for legacy.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
If a product is really good, time will give it the justice of beauty -that's real beauty, intelligence beauty, honest beauty.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
We must never confuse the pipe with the content. Today, we are fascinated by the pipe and nobody thinks of what is within. There is a pipe full of intelligence, and a pipe full of shit. You have to choose the good one, not the fascinating one.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
Life is just receiving a rope from your parents. A rope of a certain quality, with a certain diameter and of a certain material. Your only duty is to take the rope and try to make a better one. Your only duty is to make the best rope you can for your children, for the next generation.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
We are the only species who have taken control of their evolution. We are animals who – one day – had an idea to become better. Billions of us have worked to make ourselves better – that's why we created the concept of God, an entity that is everywhere, that is powerful, that is the master of everything, that gives us a unique model for our society. Now we know God doesn't exist, and so we know we are better than that notion of God.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
The first thing to do for our ecology is not to use less electricity, it's to cease buying things that are not useful.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
an object must be useful before being beautiful.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
No one has to be a genius, but everyone has to participate.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous… this is how I see my duty as a designer.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
We must never confuse the pipe with the content. Today, we are fascinated by the pipe and nobody thinks of what is within.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
Your only duty is to take the rope and try to make a better one. Your only duty is to make the best rope you can for your children, for the next generation.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
If a product is really good, time will give it the justice of beauty -that's real beauty, intelligence beauty, honest beauty.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
The first thing to do for our ecology is not to use less electricity, it's to cease buying things that are not useful.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
We are the only species who have taken control of their evolution. We are animals who – one day – had an idea to become better. Billions of us have worked to make ourselves better.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
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