Philippe Starck

Philippe Starck. Juicy Salif Lemon Squeezer. 1988. Alessi, Crusinallo, Italy. P.T.F.E.-treated pressure cast aluminum and polyamide. 11 1/2 x 5" (29.2 x 12.7 cm). David Whitney Collection, Gift of David Whitney. 48.2000.2. Architecture & Design

With its subtly tapered legs and oval back—the couturier liked to upholster it in toile de Jouy—the Dior Medallion is, to Starck, the Platonic ideal of a chair, living in what he refers to as “the collective subconsciousness of Occident.” Similar seats graced his grandmother’s home, where he recalls spending days as a child sequestered beneath their slipcovers. “It was a small house for me,” he says. “I lived in the icon.”

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For the past four decades, Starck has had a hand in everything from Kartell’s sculptural chairs to the interiors of Ian Schrager’s hotels and modular woodstoves.

FLOS has added two new products, designed by Philippe Starck, to its Bon Jour collection.

Philippe Starck. W.W. Stool. 1990. Vitra AG, Switzerland. Sand-cast aluminum. 38 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 22 5/8" (97.8 x 54 x 57.5 cm); seat h. 37 7/8" (96.2 cm). David Whitney Collection, Gift of David Whitney. 72.2000. Architecture & Design

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“Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, fun: this is how I see my duty as a creator.” Philippe Starck. Despite his thousands of projects – completed or in the making – his global fame and his tireless protean inventiveness, we must never forget the essential. Philippe Starck has a mission and a vision: creation, whatever shape it...

The next generation of designers will need to account for a crisis of sexuality and should aim for asexual design language, says Philippe Starck.

Alberto Alessi recalls the controversy surrounding Philippe Starck's stylish but impractical lemon squeezer, saying he considers it "a big joke".