“Everything I designed was unnecessary”
“Everything I designed was unnecessary,” superstar French designer Philippe Starck told an interviewer last March, bemoaning the state of his art and soul …
“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” …
What’s got M. Starck so upset? … was the designer’s discomfit induced by the decadence of clients whose ide of celebrating Starck’s restoration of a historical Paris hotel was to invite a coterie of celebs to trash the place?