Milan 08: French designer Philippe Starck launched his Monsiegneur and MOOR(e) seating for Italian brand Driade in Milan last month.
The Monsiegneur collection comprises a sofa, easy chair, armchair and foot stool in black or white leather. The seats have cast stainless steel front legs and wooden back legs.
MOORE(e) is a black fibreglass swivel chair with a quilted leather cover.
The following information is from Driade:
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Sofa with structure with front legs/armrest in stainless steel casting and back legs in wood, seat and back in polyurethane foams with fixed cover in quilted leather. Available in two versions: in black leather with back legs in ebonized ashwood; in white leather with back legs in natural mahogany. Indoor use only. W. 201 D. 82 H. 82; seat H. 41; armrest H. 60
Pouf with structure in stainless steel casting and padding in polyurethane foams, fixed quilted leather cover in black or white colours. Indoor use only. W. 112 D. 112 H. 41. It is available a tray in wood and brass with nickel finish.
Easy chair with structure with front legs/armrests in stainless steel casting and back legs in wood, seat and back in polyurethane foams with fixed cover in quilted leather. Available in two versions: in black leather with back legs in ebonized ashwood; in white leather with back legs in natural mahogany. Indoor use only. W. 53 D. 58 H. 90; seat H. 47; armrests H. 67
Armchair with structure with front legs/armrests in stainless steel casting and back legs in wood, seat and back in polyurethane foams with fixed cover in quilted leather. Available in two versions: in black leather with back legs in ebonized ashwood; in white leather with back legs in natural mahogany. Indoor use only. W. 62 D. 67 H. 82; seat H. 41; armrests H. 60
Armchair with base in polished stainless steel casting and swivel chair in fiberglass with black quilted leather cover. Indoor use only. W. 99 D. 99 H. 96; seat H. 44,5
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Posted by Rose Etherington
May 31st, 2008 at 12:30 am
Gorgeous.
May 31st, 2008 at 6:29 am
I really think mr. Starck should get another job.
May 31st, 2008 at 8:16 am
i was a Starck addict but now i dunnot like the Monseigneur collection….
armless in stanless steel casting with back legs in woods.!!! no story to tell
except this design is dead…
May 31st, 2008 at 8:17 am
i like the moore chair but the first version
May 31st, 2008 at 10:16 am
Very bourgeois, very Starck
May 31st, 2008 at 10:50 am
i think Starck is a bobo and his tribu as he said is bobo more than bourgeois…bourgeois is for confortable armless…i think it’s for some restaurants as Bon, an other business of Starck in Paris(2), Moscow…aso
May 31st, 2008 at 10:51 am
it’s very close his Cassina collection and Massaud works for Charme holding
May 31st, 2008 at 11:02 am
see the starck si=unstashtray
http://www.flickr.com/photos/starckting/1487731510/
May 31st, 2008 at 11:31 am
Umm, I’ve lost my perception about this guy suppose after his design prophecy (more or less linked with this collection)_ Anyway it’s a kind of designers I will always adore
May 31st, 2008 at 12:27 pm
always adore is addiction
see the blog of a malaysian following and living with starck thinks and
things…
funny : Ting mixed sometimes images from wanders and starck…it’ was the same communication stategy…so Starck is changing with his new wife, director of communication (ex LVMH)…more buzz “design is dead”, new trendy territory: substainable design: “democratisation of green” after democratisation of plastic chair…
http://starckting.blogspot.com/
May 31st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Not my taste but Starck is a genius and this is for a particular market. Anyone who doubts the man should catch the documentary on the Business Channel.
May 31st, 2008 at 1:29 pm
He is a genius for sure, but with this he proofs his days are over…….
May 31st, 2008 at 2:50 pm
grow up…mr starck..just changing materials is not a new design…
May 31st, 2008 at 3:05 pm
i can find an association to ludwig’s (mies van der rohe) collection for german pavillion in barcelona, don’t you think? Sorry Phillipe but Moore is a bit exaggerate.
May 31st, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Hello Dezeen and Hello to everyone !
Ok, Hi ZUY, Are you french?, I think so …
Myself, I am French designer, I like Starck in addition to being a designer is a great entrepreneur, I think it is better to look at your work before you insult one another. Whether Starck or another French designer or another nationality, I think you need to ask the right question, what are you worth up ??!!
For me, I love Starck, and it has nothing to prove. I love the creation of any nationality, long live freedom to create!
Frank – designer
May 31st, 2008 at 5:34 pm
What happened to his “end of design” This is the worst, please stop designing things. As for his “genius” please look at back issues of plaisir de france from the forties and fifties for his “inspiration” for interiors and furniture. His only genius may be in marketing and in that, he is brilliant.
May 31st, 2008 at 5:59 pm
c’est raté!
May 31st, 2008 at 6:10 pm
you’re right, Verner …Starck or Massaud are Mies Van der Rohe ’s son…but they have others parents in design
Vivek, a designer or a manufacturer can change the material of of a Starck product( Driade) , the sizes ( Kartell, Alessi,XO ), the colors…
Here it is too be more coherent in a collection…
June 1st, 2008 at 8:39 am
Hello Dezeen and Hello to everyone !
Zuy Yo !> Zuy :”you’re right, Verner… Starck or Massaud are Mies Van der Rohe ’s son… ????
“. Mmmmmmm, It’s incredible !!!!, Is true ? And you Zuy You are the son of who? 
June 1st, 2008 at 8:59 am
I find that the monseigneur is realy a shocking change in Starck’s style in conceiving designs. I think, that he managed to unite past and future, in a lovely way. The combination of stainless steel and wood created a unic kind of chairs. U like this chair or not, i think that it has enter the history of chairs.
June 1st, 2008 at 2:19 pm
muy mal, muy mal
June 1st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Looks to me like a midlife crisis manifested in furniture .
Bad work or not Starck still remains a genious . I don’t know another living designer who can talk about and commincate their work at such a high level.
June 1st, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Argumenrs aside, it is a fact that there is no other european designer that one would rather see furnish with wonderful wipe clean surfaces the contemporary hotel that one goes to pick up high quality prostitutes.
June 1st, 2008 at 8:19 pm
“natural son” of Starck then adopted by Wanders…but now i’m a kidadult
http://www.wethinkthebook.net/cms/site/images/we-think1.jpg
June 1st, 2008 at 8:35 pm
I learned design in a Starck’s book with his hand drawings , i was an addict….I insult nobody, it’s only a comment about a piece of wood and steel, that’s all ….I told this design is not coherent, not confortable, not iconic , it’s not Starck ….except Moore chair ….
June 1st, 2008 at 9:18 pm
The leather version of Moore was for Le Méridien hotel in Los Angeles …
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:49 am
… and here a lot of commentators did like the space design of the hotel…
it’s the same for the furniture design…
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:25 am
They’re quite ok, though. There’s a big difference between good designers and great designers. The great ones they follow their own ego. There’s nothing wrong or right abt them anymore.
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 am
Hello Dezeen and Hello to everyone !
Ok no problems Zuy….. But most look around us, ecological problems, famine, poverty, wars ….. I sincerely believe that there are more serious and elsewhere to discuss, to provide solutions, on a chair Starck or other……… I think Starck does not care about criticism, it is … I think what you say is not my job advanced design … I prefer to respect the work of others have my own conviction and advanced with my personality because I am not the son of Starck !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks !
I think the Design in 2008 footprint fewer references for different reasons … Because society is rapidly changing economic, human, technological …
Good day !
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I’m not an addict, i’m not a sniper too…i’m a free commentator…
I respect the work of designers … it quite difficult …Some of them are free. Starck is free as he selected 10% of his clients….He never worked for the 90% of the world…Green is new for him !!!
I think also Starck does not care about criticism ,he is looking for free media cover for his brands…and clients.
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
bogus work for starck
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:10 am
Oh I get it, he’s f**king kidding right?
Someone at Driade should be fired.
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:27 am
Hello Dezeen and to everyone !
I think you should go talk to you Starck for emptying your anger !
and he will certainly say to you <>
Bad Boy…
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:29 am
I think you should go talk to you Starck for emptying your anger !
And he will certainly say to you “Hey my guy(Zuy), you know I have make my first chair when you still had milk behind your ears”
Bad Boy…
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:39 am
leabdro explain bogus work ?
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:18 am
More clear than Starck’s messages on the theme
Yves Behar : Every single project we currently work on has an element of sustainability and/or social responsibility, this is very different from even 2-3 years ago. What has been very interesting is that traditionally a green message was easier to build into smaller start-up style projects, but today we are working on large corporate efforts where design and sustainability are central to the problem at hand. Some of the changes we can make as designers on mainstream consumption products have a great impact because of the shear scale these products are manufactured in.
I do think that design has many creative answers to current challenges, and many different tools exist to sustainability. So the key is for designers to use the many different avenues to affect true change.
June 4th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Je ne suis pas un snipper de blog, comme certains qui n’acceptent pas un avis différent,une vraie critique, le pensent …mais mon anglais est encore moins bon que celui de Starck…
PARIS: DESIGNER’S DAY
C’est pourquoi je souhaite faire un parcours design en français avec ceux qui voudront me suivre le samedi 14 juin 2008 à Paris…Je vais enrichir celui du designer’s day par des adresses et des contacts perso. Afin de ne pas faire le marathon (du design de Paris), en raison de la pénurie de taxis ici, il n’est pas possible le de faire comme en Amérique, à NYC, à SF ou à Montréal…
Prenez donc un équipement de base extra light: de bonnes chaussures adaptées à la marche urbaine,un téléphone-appareil photo,un carnet, un crayon, une petite bouteille d’eau, et + …..
June 4th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Hello Dezeen and to everyone !
My politeness compels me to respond in French to ZUY, escusez me
Salut ZUY,
J’accepte la critique, mais en même temps, la critique “trop étalé” “trop insisté” peut faire beaucoup de mal et cela peut rendre une vie de cauchemar à quelqu’un. Même Starck ou un autre Designer “people” peut avoir des répercussions dramatiques sur son image et son travail entrainant parfois la fin d’une activité professionnel. Crois moi, une critique sa passe, mais quand tu insistes ce n’ai plus de la critique mais de l’acharnement… Je pense que le travail mérite aussi une reconnaissance, ce n’est pas gratuit, des gens comme lui, ont beaucoup travaillé pour en arriver là. Je dis cela car j’ai eu une expérience similaire… Pour les Designer’s Day, je te souhaite un bon courage et une bonne chance, avec à la clef , je l’espère pour toi une certaine reconnaissance. Pour ma part, notre travail n’est plus dans la “bulle Parisienne” car je n’aime pas le Design jet set… (ne le prend surtout pas pour toi) mais sur l’international, s’ouvrir au monde, c’est ce qu’il y a de mieux !!!! et de plus passionnant dans mon métier le design !!!! A+
Bonne chance et à bientôt je l’espère,
Frank
June 4th, 2008 at 11:56 am
2/ Au fait ZUY, en dehors des médias divers, il y a des entreprises qui subissent ses remarques, sort de l’univers des MEDIAS et gratte derrière… Pense au gens qui bossent dans ses entreprises. Je ne pense pas forcément au grands editeurs mais aussi au petite PME qui sous traite… Bref, a+ Frank
June 4th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
la “bulle Parisienne” le Design jet set? Je n’ai pas l’intention de faire un parcours non critique sur le design du boulevard Saint-Germain comme dit Starck alors qu’il y est très présent…
Mais on ne peut pas nier qu’il existe, y travailler et …..faire aussi des projets pour les 90% (les moins riches du monde)
J’ai aussi ajouté pas mal de “choses à voir” qui ne sont pas ds le designer’s days..
June 4th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Je te parle du Design de Galerie (parfois franchement… MDR), de certaines association cul cul la praline comme le VI. (je ne leur ferais pas de pub) etc…
Le snobisme, le faux bourgeois, le faux philosophe, la langue de bois, les manières, les blabla….
Ce que je veux dire c’est que se n’est pas la représentation de mon métier mais une ile avec des extra terrestres >-(O_O )-<
De mon côté, mon regard sur le Design à changé depuis très longtemps, les voyages les rencontres avec d’autres cultures, d’autres civilisations, d’autres besoins, te font réfléchir, enrichisse et change ta méthode de concevoir.
Starck à tout à fait raison, aussi, sur les magazines mondain Parisien parlant de design, cela ressemble à un petit cafée…
Allez j’arrête, j’ai du travail, a+ Frank
June 4th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
La France à tellement de Régions bien plus passionnantes et enrichissantes en matière de création et industriellement parlant mais, surtout humainement !
Paris n’est pas le centre et le nombril du monde (forte heureusement….), juste une ile dit capitale avec certaines personnes qui sont un peu trop serrés dans leurs caleçon. Mdr. a+ Frk
June 4th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
J’ ai habité en France à Paris, en région parisienne, en Aquitaine, ds le Centre, en Povence Alpes Côte d’Azur, en Languedoc et ailleurs ds le monde :en Lombardie, au Québec…et en Californie…
A part Rhone Alpes aucune région n’a de politique du design, la France n’en a même pas…En belgique, la Wallonie, la Flandre enont une, les cantons suisses sans parler de certains landers allemands…Je connais tous les design du monde de pays développés et émergents alors ce discours…
June 4th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Do you have objects, furniture or lighting during the Designer’s Day in Paris ?Not only in the official members of designer’s day.
I noticed, in an israelian blog, than Saazs has innovative lighting….in Paris..with Arik Levy and some others greats designers.
I noticed also than Ingo Maurer will be exhibited in Paris….very near some Designer’s days members.
June 5th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Hello !
ZUY <>
You’re too strong !!!!!!
The arrogance …
Get off your tree guy …
End of comment.
Good day to you all ! Frank
June 5th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
ZUY you say : I know all of the design world of developed countries and emerging…
Ouawwww You’re too strong !!!!!! O_O
The arrogance …
Get off your tree guy …
End of comment.
Good day to you all ! Frank
June 5th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Tyler Says: Gorgeous.
Wilson Says: I really think mr. Starck should get another job…
Not yet Wilson: In last Milan Starck’s pieces were great!!!I dunnot like this one, that’s all !!
June 6th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Last Starck’s furniture design XO andDriade exhibited in Paris…
So i will see them…and i will add comment here
http://www.accessoiresmode.fr/news/les-dernieres-creations-de-philippe-starck-chez-edifice-du-10-juin-au-12-juillet/
June 6th, 2008 at 10:48 am
I like your design very much and willing to add some of the desgin to our show room if you can reply we need to start having some of your desgin
Dr. Jasem
June 6th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Dr. Jasem Almuhaf ask Driade in Milan…
June 6th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
http://www.driade.com/news/aleph_eng.htm
June 6th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
see this new communication from starck ting blog,
http://bp3.blogger.com/_P5xhSH3f15g/SBRaIDkNQUI/AAAAAAAAAb0/5IRriqL_-_0/s1600-h/Picture+10.png
June 13th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I’ve got to say this is just embarrassingly ugly. Mr Starck has done some brilliant work in the past but this . . .
As we were taught in school I believe you are only as good as your most recent work. If Monseigneur is his most recent work, well you figure it out.
June 14th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
headplow, Starck is not at School never teacher now but sometimes star designers did bad student work why? time ? inspiration? team?
September 26th, 2008 at 1:53 am
I like it… I don’t
The question is, stark is definitely a debate in himself!