PHILIPPE STARCK The Indefatigable power of design A Product designer, an interior designer, an architectural designer, an Inventor, a Pioneer, an artist.
Design pioneer Assignment 3
BY JIN LEYAN
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MASTER'S CHAIR
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
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PRODUCT DESIGN
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INTERIOR DESIGN
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ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
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JUICY SALIF JUICER
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TIMELINE
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CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT 28 - 29 IDEAATION
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FINAL CONCEPT RENDER
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Rendering details
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REFLECTION
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REFERENCE List
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INTRODUCTION
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hilippe Starck is a French industrial, architectural and interior designer who is famous for his wide range of design area. From everyday objects, furniture to transportation, even skyscraper. Compared to other designers, what makes Starck unique is that he is able to focus on various design areas at the same time, and he has gain achievements and famous artworks in every design area. Thousands of projects, various design areas, he seems never get tired of designing. Starck desires to use his designs to improve peoples’ living quality; he is resolute to change the world with his designs.
he began to be known to the public in 1983, French President François Mitterrand asks him to decorate his private apartments at the Elysée Palace with the recommendation of Culture Minister Jack Lang. Then, he designed the functional and with elegant looking architecture—Café Costes, which implies the essence of his design style and integrate the prosperous of the community. After these designs, he gained international attention and started to known to the world. A large number of hotels seek his help to do interior design for them. Philippe Starck's success design career has started since then.
Born in French Paris in 1949, Philippe Starck was nurtured by his aircraft and aviation engineer father Andre Starck since childho od. Sitting beside his father’s workbench day after day, it influences little Starck’s interest gradually. He said his father inspired him significantly. Starck learned from his father that everything should be organized elegantly and rigorously not only for human relationship but also for designs and inventions. He always believes that every design should be affordable to everyone, this makes him work untiringly and make every detail perfectly. Starck was a child with dreams, but at the same time, he had the naive, innocence and carefree childhood just like other children. Stack studied in École Nissim de Camondo and shows his inclination of living space. During his college life, he has designed the inflatable house in 1968 and set up his own company which manufactures inflatable products. Later, iconoclastic designer, Pierre Cardin, found Philippe Stark’s talent and great potential, he employed Stark as artistic director for his publishing house. In 1976, Starck founded his own company Starck Product after some of his representative works emerged. As
When designing for clients, Starck doesn’t form a fixed style or material preference, instead, his design style meets the needs of individual customers. His design style can be conservative for state apartment or exaggerated for nightclub. But sometimes, he’s design character did appear certain similar preference. Starck believes that design should suggest humor and surprise in everyday acts rather than simply being a symbol of fortune or flashiness. Some of his art work shows that with playful details, which will be introduced later in this booklet. Stark’s democratic design concept makes his products suitable for mass production and can be affordable for the ordinary person. This shows an utopian ideal according to him, and he achieved this utopian ideal by increasing the quantity of production, which reduce costs for the public.This philosophy has made him became the pioneer of Democratic Design. Moreover, Starck uses organic and fluid lines in his interior design to create spaces that are exuberant and lively, His most notable characteristic is that his design almost includes all the design areas, from everyday essentials to Yacht or even skyscrapers, and in every field, he won achievements.
Phillippe Starck
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PRODUCT DESIGN
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n product design area, Philippe Starck's design involves an extremely wide range of products, from everyday essentials like lemon squeezer, chairs and lamps to motorbikes and even yachts. The well-known chair Kartell Louis Chair, has a crucial position in furniture design. It gives a whole new explanation to the classical Louis XVI chair— the chair which served Louis XVI and Queen Mary by using modern design style and manufacture methods. Its transparent appearance make it looks like “ghost”, Stark tribute the classic with whole new design and technology which bounded the past and the present. This method also appears in another famous chair— the Masters Chair. It is made up of three design master’s chairs’ shape: ‘7 series’ by Arne Jacobson, ‘Eiffel chair’ by Charles Eames and ‘Tulip armchair’ by Eero Saarinen which outline the backrest of the seat. This chair is made from modified batch -dyed polypropylene. The Broom Chair shown Starck’s strong environmental awareness. He collaborated with the Navy supplier Emeco, which Emeco provide recycled materials such as recycled aluminum, recycled PET, recycled wood polypropylene, ecological concrete and cork. With these materials, Philippe Stark convert those waste into coveted furniture piece. In fact, this broom chair is made of 90% recyclable polypropylene
and wood fiber. It gets the name because it can remove the “dust” from the environment just like a broom. To ecology, Starck believes that the solution to the huge question market faced was to reduce consumption rather than to find an energy source to keep up with people’s consumption. The most famous and classic everyday product Starck designed is none other than the Alessi Juicy Salif juicer. This product is purposed for squeezing lemon to make lemon juice, but it’s unique appearance usually makes users treat it as a decoration for the room. To this lemon squeezer, Starck pointed out that there are hundreds of lemon squeezers that is much easier to use than the Juicy Salif juicer, but this squeezer can do beyond squeezing lemon, it can also decorate the house and becomes the topic of visitors. On the bottom of the juicer, it was marked “This juicer is not advised to use, it is to put in your bookshelf.” The inspiration of the shape of the juicer came from the squid, which makes it looks extraterrestrial. Stark said that "I am very happy with this project because I consider it a big joke to everybody. It is the most controversial squeezer of the century I must say, but one of the most amusing projects I have done in my career." From this point, this product looks more like a good example of emotional design with a sense of humor.
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Louis Ghost Chair Kartell
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Juicy Salif Alessi
A.I. Chair
Moto 65 Aprilia
Another famous project of Philippe Starck is his yacht designed for Steve Jobs. That yacht is called Venus, it was launched in October of 2012. After the death of Steve Jobs, it parked in Amsterdam where is was produced. Moreover, the collaboration betwe en Philippe Starck and the motorbike company Aprilia is also well known. Sitting in the low and flat position, the curve lines and every angle make this Motorbike looks more aggressive, and the egg shape frame makes it looks unique. Also, there are much more legendary products such as the jelly-phone concept, Table Gun—the LED table lamp that have designed by this talented and energetic. As a result, it can be seen that Philippe Starck has huge contribution to the product design area.
Venus Yacht
Broom Chair Emeco
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The W.W. stool Vitra
Flos
Lounge Gun Floor Lamp
Ara Table Lamp Flos
Boxinbox Shelf
Passion Chair Cassina
Glas Italia
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“We weren’t born just today. There have been masters before us. the masters chair brings to mind the lines of three great masters and three great masterpieces. Putting them all together they create a new product, a new project, a reflection on a new society. ‘Masters’ is a project in collaboration with Eugeni Quitlet.” ——Philippe Starck
Masters' Chair Kartell
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Black and white themed hospitality design project for Yoo Hotel.
INTERIOR DESIGN
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hilippe Starck had won great reputation for his interior design, he designed for large number of hotels and restaurants all over the world. Starck didn't form a immutable personal style when designning for different clients, instead, his design always satisfy clients' need it can be conservative which is suitable for state apartment or exaggerated and magnificent needed for nightclub. But some constants did appear in his design like organic, fluid lines and playful details such as the Delano Hotel in the South Beach area of Miami Beach, there are metal apple holders on the wall of every rooms, and the saying “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away was printed on the holder.. Starck believes that design should suggest humor and surprise in everyday acts rather than simply being a symbol of fortune or flashiness.
Philippe Starck first discovered by general public in 1983, when he was adviced to redesigning the private apartment in the Élysée Palace in Paris for French President François Mitterrand by Culture Minister Jack Lang. In the following years, he gained global attention because of the success of Café Costes, which is functional and elegant. This project contained Starck's essence which combine the birth and the prosperous of the community.
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Luxurious spa area in Le Royal Monceau Raffles in Paris
After that, hotels and restaurant from all over the world ask for his design, such as Manin in Tokyo, Theatron in Mexico City, and Teatriz in Madrid. Hotels
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he year of 1988 is a transitional year for the hotel world, the revolution of hospitality business lead by Lan Schrager and Starck make hotels no nore impersonal transitional venue but living space with humour and irony that gives pleasure to customers. Starck tried to find his dream like ideas which combined an acid-tinted phantasmagoria with dreamy surprises in his design for Hudson in New York. In 2001, his Clift in San Francisco combined classic of the city with cut-edge technology, which was nauty at that time. The Hotel Faena in Buenos Aires he designed has won the Wallpaper* magazine's prize for the best hotel of the year in 2005. A big project YOO was lauched in London with the collaboration of Philippe Starck and John Hitchcox, who is a property tycoon. This project continueds until 2008 in Santa Fe, Mexico. It desire to break down the tradition of luxury residence by giving apartments with modern floor plans that conform the expectation of tribe members. The project YOO advocates freedom, flexibility and simplicity by diverse cultural famillies. In 2009, there are 50 buildings in construction all over the world.
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Quadri restaurant
Royalton Hotel
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Quadri restaurant
Le Meurice
INTERIOR DESIGN Restaurant
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hilippe Starck was also invited to various restaurant projects. Some famous works such as The Teatron restaurant in Mexico (1985) and then the Teatriz in Madrid (1988) were built in an antique theatre which created a surrealism atmosphere. When designning, Starck acted like a optimistic director, he treated every living space as a theatre where stories begins, and visiters become actors. Starck likes to emphasize the unique rhythm and special vibration in order to create a harmony environment, this was showcased in the redesign of old Parisian Theatre hall, La Cigale in 1988. Also, in 1994, he created a insane and dramatical restaurant--Felix Restaurant in Hong Kong, this poetic looking restaurant forms huge contrast with the materialistic reality city. The Cristal Room Baccarat restaurant which sit beside the romantic and luxurious Palais de Cristal de la Maison Baccarat (2004) is an incontrovertible venue for Paris Gourmets, it also links the festive Noaillies years to our era. By using crystals in these interiors, Starck transforms the implicit poetry of crystals to the joy of visitors seeing the sparkling surfaces on the crystal. There are more iconic venues that he designed all over the world, such as The restaurants Bon I (2000) and Bon II (2002), the Mori Venice Bar (2006), the Paradis du Fruit (2009) in Paris and Katsuya in Los Angeles (2006), the first of a series of Japanese restaurants and also the Lan (2007) in Beijing.
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“No one has to be a genius, but everyone
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has to participate.” ——Philippe Starck
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Asahi Super Dry Hall (1989)
Maison Heler Metz Hilton Hotels
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Le Nuage (2014)
ArChitecture DESIGN
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ince Philippe Starck was a student in 1969, he has shown his talent and inclination to living space and have designed his first famous art work, the inflatable house, Starck gained the reputation of public by his design for Paris nightclubs La Main Bleue and Les Bains-Douches. After that, huge number of hotels and restaurants all over the world ask for his service. Philippe Starck believes that he is just an architect, not a designer.In 1989, he started to design architecture for Japan, every building he has designed have thoroughly different form. The first one Unhex Nani-Nani office building in Tokyo was impressive, Starck use living material which changes when time go pass, this is originate by his faith that his work should invest in an environment without undermining the environment, this maintained the greatest respect to the environment. The year later, he designed his avant-garde architecture Asahi Beer Hall in Tokyo which is considered as one of the most recognizable modern architects in Japan. This architect is shaped like a beer glass topped with a golden flamelike structure. It is made up of granite and looks simple and plain, but the golden fire structure on the top makes it attractive. The 360 tons golden flame was made by shipbuilders using submarine-construction techniques which is completely hollow. In France, he was invited to design the control tower at Bordeaux’s airport (1997) and the extension of the Ecole Nationale SupÊrieure des Arts DÊcoratifs in Paris (1998). All Philippe Starck's works show his explicit humanist philosophy.
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"In my architectural work I create scenarios with the vocation of creating more confident, more beautiful and more in love." ——Philippe Starck
YOO Quito tower
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Juicy Salif Alessi
The Alessi Juicy Salif juicer is one of Philippe Starck's representative work which is known all over the world. This product is purposed for squeezing lemon to make lemon juice, but its unique appearance usually makes users treat it as a decoration for the room. About this juicer, Starck said that there are hundreds of lemon squeezers that is much easier to use than the Juicy Salif juicer, but this squeezer can do beyond squeezing lemon, it can also decorate the house and becomes the topic of visitors. Like most of his work, this juicer also have the
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Juicy Salif Juicer playful detail, on the bottom of the juicer, it was marked “This juicer is not advised to use, it is to put in your bookshelf.� The inspiration of the shape of the juicer came from the squid, which makes it looks extraterrestrial. Stark said that "I am very happy with this project because I consider it a big joke to everybody. It is the most controversial squeezer of the century I must say, but one of the most amusing projects I have done in my career." From this point, this product looks more like a good example of emotional design with a sense of humor.
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Timeline of Philippe StArck's LIFE Sta rck d e s i g n e d Ara table lamp for Flos company.
Philippe Starck born in Paris, France.
Starck Studied at Ecole Nissim de Camondo, showed his interest to interior design; designed the inflatable house; set up his own company; iconoclastic designer Pierre Cardin found his talent and employed him as artistic director at his publishing house.
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Sta rck d e co r a t e d p r i v a t e apartments for French President François Mitterrand with the recommendation of Culture Minister Jack Lang.
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Starck designed some representative works such as Flying lamp and Portable neon sign, then he founded his Starck Product company; designed the night club: La Main Bleue. Sta rck d e s i g n e d the interior of CafĂŠ Costes and went famous to the world. Starck got the first price of La Vilette Furniture design competition.
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Starck designed the Unhex Nani-Nani office buiding.
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A big hotel project: The YOO project began in London which spread all over the world. 9/11 attacks, totally 2996 people died.
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02 08 The YOO project finished.
Malaysia airlines MH370 disappeared with 239 people onboard.
Starck designed Juicy Salif lemon squeezer: one of his representative design; designed the avant-gardist architecture Asahi Beer Hall in Tokyo which is considered as the most recognizable modern building in Japan.
Starck designed another representative design: Starck d e si gne d world Kartell Luis Ghost Chair famous furniture piece for SARS disease spread to Ka r t e ll : T h e M a s t e r s Chair which combined the world three furniture masterpieces.
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Starck designed the Venus yacht for Steve Jobs.
Starck designed the Boxinbox Shelf for Glas Italia.
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Louis Ghost Chair Kartell
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
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IDEA GENERATION In this part, I will be design a furniture piece that will show the style of Phillippe Starck. THe setches above are my brainstorming about the furniture that I want to design. As Phillippe Starck do not have a fixed style, so I chose the style of one of his representative work, The Louis Ghost Chair. This chair use modern design method to redesign a specific classical chair. Starck use transparent plastic to redesign the Louis XVI chair, he simplized the shape of the Louis XVI chair with flowing lines, the Louis Ghost Chair tribute the classic using the modern technology, which makes this chair became one of his most famous furniture piece. In my design, I also want to continue this design method. I chose to tribute to ancient Chinese furniture. Based on the shape of ancient Chinese furniture, I further simplized the decoration of the furniture. In traditional Chinese furniture, square and straight lines are usually appear with the decoration of certain number of flowing curves. China is an extremely dignified country which care about manners and etiquette, especially in ancient times. So in furniture design, it is usually based on human dignity but not based on the comforabillity of people, the shape of the furniture often have a meaning, such as the square shape represent supreme power.
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Final Concept Render Final Concept Render
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The Zen Chair This chair design mimic the design method of The Ghost Chair by Phillippe Starck. I choose traditional Chinese chair as the basic model, and based on this, I abandoned the fancy decoration of traditional Chinese furniture but kept the traditional shape of the chair. This chair combined the flowing curve lines with strait lines, which looks harmonious. The color choice followed the traditional Chinese coloring scheme, and with the transparent
plastic material, added a sense of zen to the environment. By combining modern material and aesthetic and traditional shape, this chair is unique to other chairs and can not only be a tool for people to rest but also be an artwork that becomes the topic of visitors.
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Final Concept Render
In China, different shape have different meanings, for example, the shape on the top of the back rest shapes like the "Guan Mao" which is the hat that ancient Chinese emperors wear, this stands for supreme power. Also, the wide square shapes in the seat stands for power too. In ancient China, due to the hierarchical society, civilians desires for power, so they try to add these elements to their furniture.
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Just like Phillippe Starck's art work, The Zen Chair that I designed has also add some playful details such as this printing on the right side, it is printed "The supreme power" and the Chinese version of that. This highlighted the central idea of this Zen Chair.
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Rendering details
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Reflection
In the first assignment, we are asked to work as a team to do research about a specific design era with big events during that design era to find the connection between and put them to a folio. Also, we need to do research about a graphic designer assigned and make a timeline for the design era with the style of that graphic designer. In this assignment, I have learned a lot about I modernism that I didn't know before, and by finding the connection between the design era and global events, I understand that, as a designer, I need to care about everything around me and design products that is suitable for modern world. In this assignment, I also improved my graphic design skills and organization abillity in a group. The second assignment asked me to write an essay to deeper understand a design and make an arguement about the topic that I have decided, this assignment requires much more research and critical thinking skills. In this assignment, I have learned the essence of the designer I have picked which widen my horizon and I can apply this designer's design style to my own design. Also, during this assignment, I have exercised my abillity of organizing academic article and also referencing skills. The last assignment require me to combine all the learnings and researches that I have done in the assignment before to make a booklet about the designer that I have researched, and I need to design a furniture piece which is inspired by the that designer. In this assignment I have practiced my layout skills and the abillity to design furniture and also my sketching and CAD and rendering skills.
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“Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous... this is how I see my duty as a designer.� --Philippe Starck
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