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Philippe Starck (born January 18, 1949) is a French designer known since the start of his career in the 1980s for his interior, product, industrial and architectural design including furniture.

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The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is

Humanity, Materiality

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.

Beautiful, Coherence, Mean, Opposites

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.

Children, Inspiration, Motivation, Perhaps, Poetry, Story

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.

Men, Next, Persons, Should Have, Transform, Turn

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.

Attempted, Desire, Dream, Humans, Take, Trying

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

Designer, Duty, Ecological, Ethical, Humorous, Political

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

Elegance, Honesty, Human, Parameters, Two

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

Conversation, Conversations, Lemons, Squeeze, Start

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

Bring, Design, Ideas, Magic, Respect

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

Designed, Food, Organic, Organic Food

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

Everyone, Genius, Obliged, Participate

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

Brain, Doors, Like, Open, People

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

Beauty, Design, Goodness, Humanist, Replace

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.

Big, Design, Intelligence, Luxury, Money, Quality

Freedom is the only style. That is why I never speak about beauty or beautiful products but 'good products'. Nowadays, we have so many challenges; it is not really a priority to care for beauty. The only way for us is to focus on an ethic and ecological behaviour.

Beautiful, Beauty, Focus, Priorities, Products

I am my brain's publisher.

Brain, Intellect, Publisher, Publishers

Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what constitutes our eternal ceiling. The sky is one of the things that constructs us, one of our constants. But it is not what people believe. I should like to close this circle by turning over in my bed and scrutinizing the stars.

Believe, Constructs, Dream, Dreaming, Scrutinizing, Stars

Design does not really interest me

Design, Doe, Interest

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

Able, Bike, Kind, Terrains, Territories, Territory

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary.

Designed, Everything, Unnecessary

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