Philippe Starck had an epiphany, after all these years: "Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary," the French star designer admitted in a recent interview with the German weekly DIE ZEIT.

“When I say I’m not proud of what I do it’s because design doesn’t help evolution. It is absolutely useless.” So declares design maverick Philippe Starck midway through an interview at the ...

Among the most prolific designers of his generation, Philippe Starck hasn’t slowed for a moment in his decades-long career. The multi-faceted creative has turned his sights to eyewear where he ...

The concept smartphone from Xiaomi and colorful French designer Philippe Starck, revealed on Tuesday, has won praise for its minimalist form and bezel-less screen. And while Starck is world-renowned ...

In sprawling and dense São Paulo, Brazil, the reclaimed enclave of Cidade Matarazzo is emerging as something of a polished bauble. Cidade Matarazzo’s transformed historical buildings, some a century ...

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Few designers have done more to re-shape the identity of the modern superyacht than the Frenchman Philippe Starck. Over the course of two decades, naval architecture and design has formed a ...

Editor's note: From hard drives to motorcycles, and from chairs to buildings, Philippe Starck has designed just about every kind of product out there. In the first of a regular series of columns, the ...

Remember when “design” meant the actual creation of something new, a careful process of refining an object until its function was as clean and perfect as the designer could make it? No, neither do we: ...