Philippe Stark
By Ken Hoyt
Recently in the New York Times the iconic Philippe Starck was celebrated with fabulous short film and collage. Critic (and new editor of Sunset Magazine) Allison Arieff gave him rather thorough (and public) spanking in her blog entry, Starck Raving. She may have a point but when Ms. Arieff was likely still in college I received a potent lesson in the power of architecture when I first walked into the lobby of the newly opened Paramount Hotel in NYC. It was breathtakingly fresh.
Arieff isn't alone in criticizing Starck, although for very different reasons. Recently he said, "I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact." He plans to retire within two years. A giant loss.
It may be impossible to understand how innovative something like that feels when, nearly twenty years later, it's been oft-copied. I think in a world filled with derivative design we need someone who can give a War of the Worlds elegance to simple juicer
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