Comments on: Voxan Café Racer Super Naked by Philippe Starck

By: steve bridgeman

steve bridgeman — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:14:10 +0000

It would be a very great loss to the world of design if Starck retired. he is a visionary designer, a one man design movement! I love this bike, it has a brutal beauty. He’s captured something of the elemental nature of motorbikes, the essence of why we ride them.

By: phil

phil — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:51:54 +0000

nice programme on bbc2 design for life. just to let you know that i am british and yes philippe stark rule’s!

By: Niki

Niki — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:17:39 +0000

I rode Starck’s Moto 650 for several years, no motorbike has filled me with such joy, I regret the day I sold it and want his new bike, get it in production, I know it will loose very little of it’s design in the making.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:06:08 +0000

Thats an amazing motor bike design, I was just wondering around the site and started checking out the transport which I never check and seen this, it reminds me of the classic honda and the new BMW designs (just to compare but its beautifully unique). I see modern, post-modern architecture and design…then i seen the pic of Stark at the bottom…he really does great design. Why i never learned about him in University is beyond me, but I’ve been researching him myself and feel he truly is a great designer.

Amazing job, would love one myself.

By: zuy

zuy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:01:36 +0000

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Renowned French designer Philippe Starck says he is fed up with his job and plans to retire in two years, in an interview published in a German weekly on Thursday.
“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact,” Starck told Die Zeit weekly newspaper.

“Everything I designed was unnecessary.

“I will definitely give up in two years’ time. I want to do something else, but I don’t know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself …design is a dreadful form of expression.”

Starck, who is known for his interior design of hotels and Eurostar trains and mass consumption objects ranging from chairs to tooth brushes and lemon juice squeezers, went on to say that he believed that design on the whole was dead.

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

Starck said the only objects that he still felt attached to were “a pillow perhaps and a good mattress.” But the thing one needs most, he added, was the “ability to love”.

By: Hot King

Hot King — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:23:23 +0000

PLEONASTIC…a moto is not a lamp or a vase or a chair. Leave those thinks at someone other

By: Rei dos frangos

Rei dos frangos — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:46:57 +0000

do cacete… Com a breca… Que coisa bonita, parabens filipe.

By: Ivo

Ivo — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:13:08 +0000

nice bike. i like it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:03:01 +0000

Admittedly I’m not Starks greatest fan, and I prefer not to leave purely negative comments, but this is a complete travesty against motorbike design. If ever there has been a case of overdesign to the point of it being grotesque then this is it.

By: Deepak

Deepak — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:01:31 +0000

I Like super naked Xv best for its muscular Looking & Power. I want to
Take a test drive for feel it.