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.

Philippe Starck

Categorized in : Beautiful Focus Priorities

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealis... by Philippe Starck

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

Philippe Starck

design vision ideas

My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start co... by Philippe Starck

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

Philippe Starck

lemons conversation

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.

Philippe Starck

color depression happy

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with good... by Philippe Starck

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

Philippe Starck

design humanist goodness

I have this mental sickness called creativity. by Philippe Starck

I have this mental sickness called creativity.

Philippe Starck

sickness creativity

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is... by Philippe Starck

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

Philippe Starck

designer political humorous

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to part... by Philippe Starck

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

Philippe Starck

obliged genius

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.

Philippe Starck

design sun people

Design is a dreadful form of expression by Philippe Starck

Design is a dreadful form of expression

Philippe Starck

design form expression

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary. by Philippe Starck

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary.

Philippe Starck

unnecessary

The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does not mean anything. Only coherence counts. An object, design or not, is primarily an object that meets the parameters of human intelligence, which reconciles opposites. The lack of humor is the definition of vulgarity.

Philippe Starck

opposites beautiful mean

I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.

Philippe Starck

copying waiting brain

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human p... by Philippe Starck

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

Philippe Starck

elegance honesty two

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.

Philippe Starck

luxury design quality

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning. by Philippe Starck

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

Philippe Starck

symbols

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.

Philippe Starck

design monk genius

Design is a tool to help the tribe. by Philippe Starck

Design is a tool to help the tribe.

Philippe Starck

tribes design tools

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.

Philippe Starck

dream desire trying

Future is about dematerialisation. by Philippe Starck

Future is about dematerialisation.

Philippe Starck

I like to open the doors to people's brain. by Philippe Starck

I like to open the doors to people's brain.

Philippe Starck

brain doors people