Philippe Starck Quotes

Working with Emeco has allowed me to use a recycled material and transform it into something that never needs to be discarded - a tireless and unbreakable chair to use and enjoy for a lifetime. It is a chair you never own, you just use it for a while until it is the next persons turn. A great chair never should have to be recycled. This is good consideration of nature and man kind.

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

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.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal knowledge of physics, astrophysics, and perhaps mathematics, brings to light certain patterns that make these subjects easier to understand. It is striking to see the extreme similarity between these scientific propositions and the forms that recur in all times, places and civilizations.

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

Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.

In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant,

Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.

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

For the organic food, the less it's designed, the better it is

The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is

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.

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary,

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.

Design does not really interest me

Future is about dematerialisation.

I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories,