Philippe Starck designs seating for Driade based on historic torture devices
Launched at Milan design week, Philippe Starck's latest furniture collection for Italian brand Driade references torture devices used during the Spanish Inquisition. More
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Philippe Starck hits out at reissue of jelly-phone concept
Philippe Starck has threatened to take action against a fellow French designer he accuses of spreading "false information" by passing off a 20-year-old concept for a smartphone as a new project. More
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Philippe Starck and Jerome Olivet present gelatinous vision for future smartphone
French designers Philippe Starck and Jerome Olivet have proposed a radical concept for the future of smartphones based around holograms and voice control. More
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Philippe Starck designs smartphone with edge-to-edge screen
French designer Philippe Starck has designed his first smartphone: the Mi Mix for Chinese electronics company Xiaomi. More
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Social media sceptic Philippe Starck joins Facebook and Instagram
French designer Philippe Starck has belatedly joined Facebook and Instagram, despite previously describing digital media as "sick".
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Philippe Starck designs modular Speetbox wood-burning stove
French designer Philippe Starck has created a wood-burning stove for heating brand Speeta that can be customised by combining different modules (+ slideshow). More
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Philippe Starck designs voice-controlled smart radiator valves for Netatmo
French designer Philippe Starck has created smart radiator valves that allow homeowners to remotely control the temperature of each room using their voice (+ movie). More
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Philippe Starck to launch perfume collection
Philippe Starck has become the latest designer to venture into the fragrance industry, adding three eau de toilettes to his extensive catalogue of products. More
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Philippe Starck and Luc Arsène-Henry build steel wine cellar for Château les Carmes Haut-Brion
French designer Philippe Starck has teamed up with architect pal Luc Arsène-Henry to create a cellar for a Bordeaux wine estate, designed to to look like a "raw metal blade plunged in the terroir" (+ slideshow). More
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Philippe Starck designs collection of recyclable flip-flops for Ipanema
French designer Philippe Starck has created a minimal and recyclable summer sandal collection for Brazilian brand Ipanema. More
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Design purveyor Murray Moss auctions off items from private collection
The owner of the former Moss gallery in New York is selling 60 pieces – from lighting fixtures to homeware – by leading designers including the Campana Brothers, Marcel Wanders, Philippe Starck and Studio Job (+ slideshow). More
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Triptyque and Philippe Starck design TOG's first showroom to be as customisable as its furniture
The first flagship store for customisable furniture brand TOG in São Paulo is designed by French designer Philippe Starck and local studio Triptyque as a social space for creatives, like a "21st-century Andy Warhol Factory" (+ slideshow). More
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LED technology means designers are "obliged to redesign all lights" says Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck has spoken about the pros and cons of technology, saying that designers are morally obliged to use the latest materials to create more efficient products – but warned that dependence on screen-based devices is "sick" (+ transcript). More
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Philippe Starck's "simple" ceiling light can be rotated with a broom
Designer Philippe Starck has created a spotlight that can be adjusted with a broomstick. More
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"Wires will disappear" as lighting goes cordless, say Starck and Gandini
Milan 2015: advances in lighting and battery technologies mean that lighting cables could disappear within a few years, according to designer Philippe Starck and Piero Gandini, CEO of lighting brand Flos (+ slideshow). More
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Digital media is turning design fairs into "a kind of wild west" say designers
Milan 2015: leading designers have spoken out about the "awful" intrusion as visitors and journalists scramble to grab photos and interviews at design fairs. More
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Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Icon Chair by Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck's aluminium Icon Chair for American furniture brand Emeco is today's offering in our A-Zdvent calendar for 2014. More
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Philippe Starck's new home is the prototype for a new prefab housing collection
Philippe Starck has unveiled a prototype for his latest series of prefabricated low-energy wooden homes – a glazed and aluminium-clad structure outside Paris that he and his wife Jasmine plan to move into (+ slideshow). More
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Philippe Starck launches MASS cycling collection at Eurobike
French designer Philippe Starck has unveiled four electric bicycles and a collection of matching cycling accessories at the Eurobike event in Germany today, including a bike with a furry coat (+ slideshow). More
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Philippe Starck's Juicy Salif was "the most controversial lemon squeezer of the century"
Movie: in our final exclusive video interview with Alberto Alessi, the president of the Italian design brand recalls the controversy surrounding Philippe Starck's stylish but impractical lemon squeezer, saying he considers it to be "a big joke". More