Primero admiré y compré su diseño, y luego descubrí al personaje detrás: Philippe Starck, el más prolífico y mundialmente famoso diseñador con vida actualmente. Luego conocí los hoteles que ha diseñado, compré sus libros y leí sus ideas. En el camino, he desarrollado una sincera admiración por este influyente diseñador y creativo del mundo, quien ha ignorado límites o fronteras a sus ideas, pues tanto ha diseñado una motocicleta como un exprimidor de limones, un cepillo de dientes, muchas sillas y no poco en nada, pues le ha alcanzado para mucho y muy bien.
Esta es la presentación en Ted a su video:
Legendary designer Philippe Starck — with no pretty slides behind him — spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question “Why design?” Along the way he drops brilliant insights into the human condition; listen carefully for one perfectly crystallized mantra for all of us, genius or not. Yet all this deep thought, he cheerfully admits, is to aid in the design of a better toothbrush.
Y ésta es la bio que publica Ted en su sitio:
Philippe Starck is a legend of modern design. He’s known for his luxurious hotels and boites around the world — notably the Peninsula Hotel restaurant in Hong Kong, the Teatron in Mexico, the Hotel Delano in Miami, the Mondrian in Los Angeles, the Asia de Cuba restaurant in New York — designing the total environment from layout to furniture to linens.
But he has made perhaps his most permanent mark on design through his bold reworkings of everyday objects. In reimagining and rethinking the quotidian, he has produced some of the iconic shapes of the 20th century, including his leggy chrome juice squeezer , the reimagined Emeco aluminum chairs, and the witty Louis Ghost polycarbonate fauteuil.
When Starck turns his bold vision toward a chair, a shoe, a toothbrush, it’s clear he thinks deeper than the glossy surface.