Quotes from Philippe Starck

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.

My best office is my bed.

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.

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.

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.

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

The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is

Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.

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

Design is a dreadful form of expression

Design is a tool to help the tribe.

Design does not really interest me

Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.

Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of design.

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

Future is about dematerialisation.

In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.