Philippe Starck

Asahi Breweries Headquarters

The buildings he designed in Japan, starting in 1989, went against the grain of traditional forms. The first, Nani Nani, in Tokyo [7], described as a biomorphic shed.[1] A year later he designed the Asahi Beer Hall in Tokyo, a building topped with a golden flame. This was followed in 1992 by Le Baron Vert office complex in Osaka.[8] In France he designed the extension of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris (1998).

In 1991, he designed one of the pavilions for the new Groninger Museum.[9]

Starck also designed affordable and adjustable pre-fabricated P.A.T.H. houses.[10]

Since the late 1980s, Starck has designed a number of hotels in different countries, these include the Royalton Hotel [11] (1988) and Paramount hotel(1990) in New York City, [1] the Delano in Miami,[1] the Hudson Hotel[12] and the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood, the Sanderson [13] the Saint Martin's Lane in London,[14] Le Meurice renovations in 2016, the Royal Monceau (2010)[15] as well as more recently the Hotel Brach (2018)[16] and the Hotel 9Confidentiel (2018)[17], in Paris. Also in France, in the South West, Philippe Starck designed La Co(o)rniche[18] and Ha(a)itza[19] hotels, both in Arcachon, near the Dune of Pilat. In 2019, Starck created the Lily of the Valley Hotel[20] on the French Riviera and in 2020 opened La Réserve Eden au Lac Zurich[21].

Starck has designed several restaurants, including in the early years, the Café Costes (1984) in Paris, Manin (1985) in Tokyo, Theatron (1985) in Mexico City, Teatriz (1990) in Madrid[22][1]or more recently several restaurants with the Alajmo brothers in Paris, Venice and Milan - Caffe Stern (2014[23]), Amo (2016)[24], Gran Caffe Quadri (2018)[25] and Amor (2019)[26], La Réserve à la Plage in Saint Tropez with Michel Reybier Hospitality, The Avenue at Saks in New York in 2019.[27]

The Alhondiga, a 43,000 sq. m culture and leisure venue in Bilbao, opened in 2010.[28]

In 2004, Starck designed the Motor Yacht A [29] and then in 2012 the A (sailing yacht) - one of the world's largest sailing yachts[30]. [31] [32]

A (sailing yacht).

Starck designed the infrastructure for the Port Adriano harbour on the south-west bay of Palma de Mallorca,[33]Mallorca and was artistic director for the interior. It opened in April 2012.

He also designed Steve Jobs's yacht, Venus in 2008, which launched in October 2012. Just over a year since the death of Apple's founder, Steve Jobs's yacht, designed by Philippe Starck ... was moored in the Netherlands where was being completed.[34]

Starck's work is seen in the collections of European and American museums, including the Musée National d'Art Moderne [35](to which he has donated several pieces, in particular prototypes) the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris,[36] the MOMA[37] and the Brooklyn Museum[38] in New York City, the Vitra Design Museum in Basel[39] and the Design Museum in London.[40] More than 660 of his designs were inventoried in French public collections in 2011.[41]

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  Masters Chair, homage to the masters , Arne Jacobsen, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Kartell, Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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  Dr.Glob Chair, Kartell Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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  Tabouret WW, 1990, Vitra, Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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  Table center, Alessi, Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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  Chaise Costes, Centre Georges Pompidou.
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  Juicy Salif, Alessi, Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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  Louis Ghost Chairs

Volteis electric car, 2012

Starck was the first designer to participate in the TED Talks (Technology, Entertainment & Design).[42]

Through his "democratic design" concept, Starck has campaigned for well-designed objects that are not just aimed for upper-tiered incomes. He has expressed this as a utopian ideal, approached in practice by increasing production quantities to cut costs and by using mail-order,[43] via Les 3 Suisses. In January 2013 he redesigned the Navigo travel pass.[44]

One of the ways Starck has economized costs for the public[45] is his plastic-furniture line, producing pieces such as the Kartell Louis Ghost chair, over a million of which have been sold. He has also been involved in the development of Fluocaril toothbrushes [46] to bathroom fittings for Duravit, Hansgrohe, Hoesch and Axor, from Alessi's Juicy Salif lemon squeezer to Zikmu speakers, Zik headphones by Parrot, Laguiole Knives, [47] Starckeyes glasses by Mikli and the Marie Coquine lamp for Baccarat.[48]

Alongside his work Philippe Starck partnered with Moustache Bikes for the M.A.S.S. (Mud, Asphalt, Sand and Snow). This is a portfolio of four e-bikes that use a Bosch electrical engine and battery pack.[49]

Starck helped design the Xiaomi Mi MIX smartphone, notable for having a 6.4-inch "whole surface screen".[50]

In 2019 the so called AI chair was presented to the public. Philippe Starck cooperated with experts of the 3D software company Autodesk and created a chair design with help of an Artificial Intelligence.[51]

Sometimes pointed political messages, combined with the unexpected and humour[52] can be found in his projects, such as the subversive Gun Lamp (Flos, 2005), the Superarchimoon floor lamp (Flos, 2000), in fact a giant architect's lamp standing 217 centimetres high, the Haaa!!! and Hooo!!! lamps he imagined with the American artist Jenny Holzer (Flos/Baccarat, 2009) and the chandeliers in the Darkside collection, featuring the Zenith chandelier (Baccarat, 2005).