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7 Philippe Starck Designs in Modern Homes
November 6, 2015
From architectural design to the smallest housewares, Philippe Starck's work is as diverse as it is popular. This collection highlights the latter category, featuring everything from kitchens to bathrooms and living rooms shaped by his designs.
Thanks to a prefab in-law unit, an octogenarian modernist lives independently on a peaceful, verdant site in Northern California. In the living room, interior designer Meredith Rebolledo of Ma(i)sonry Napa Valley paired pieces like Philippe Starck’s Eros chairs for Kartell and two 1960s Swedish chairs with the client’s Oushak rug.
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Originally appeared in This Modern Prefab is Perfect for Mom
In 2004, The Houses at Sagaponac—a controversial development on eastern Long Island—celebrated its first completed house. In 2005, the first residents move in to this home, titled House 43. In its master bathroom, a translucent wall silhouettes a Duravit bathtub by Philippe Starck.
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Originally appeared in Seeing What Develops
A family matriarch enlisted an architect, an interior designer, a builder, and a landscape architect to help realize her vision for a diminutive, low-key lakeside getaway. A Saarinen Womb Chair upholstered in Knoll fabric is accented by a Maharam pillow and a ceramic Oppiacei pouffe from Skitsch. Acapulco chairs, handmade by Greenpoint Works in Brooklyn, and a Prince Aha stool by Philippe Starck for Kartell grace the deck outside. Photo by: Kimberly Davis
Originally appeared in The Lakeside Getaway That Entertains All Ages
It’s hard to say whether the stucco-and-vinyl-clad houses popping up in suburbs today will still provide sturdy housing stock in the year 2160, but Boston’s pre–Civil War brownstones suggest it’s possible to stay strong for centuries. Of course, bricks and mortar have a good track record—a fact well known to Susan Battista and Fritz Klaetke, who purchased a South End row house in 2005 after six years living in another nearby.
After removing two small kitchens from the original building, the home’s new kitchen dominates the second floor, opening onto the living area. Fixtures in the kitchen include 14 Series pendants by Omer Arbel for Bocci, and Charles Ghost stools by Philippe Starck for Kartell.
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Originally appeared in Boston Translation
All of the money Barbara Hill poured into remodeling her 1960s condo in Houston was spent taking things out—and she couldn’t be happier. A Philippe Starck standing lamp and an Eames chaise longue bracket the living room; two Lawrence Weiner prints hang behind a pair of Warren Platner chairs and a table purchased from a River Oaks estate sale; at far left of the room, a partial wall of new cinderblocks hides a return air vent.
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Originally appeared in Stripped Ease
Unobtrusively distinct from its neighbors, this weekend house in Mexico assimilates the colors of the surrounding landscape on surfaces of glass, steel, and concrete. On the desk in the master bedroom, two Philippe Starck fly swatters sit aside a Tolomeo lamp from Artemide.
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Originally appeared in Reflections on a Lake
Paper artist Pierre Pozzi uses his signature material to wrap the dining room walls of his home in Valencia, Spain. Pedrali’s orange Frida 752 chair, two metal Tolix Marais chairs, and Philippe Starck’s Olly Tango seat surround a dining table that resident Pierre Pozzi wrapped in paper.
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Originally appeared in Artist's Dining Room in Valencia with Fringed Paper Walls
Thanks to a prefab in-law unit, an octogenarian modernist lives independently on a peaceful, verdant site in Northern California. In the living room, interior designer Meredith Rebolledo of Ma(i)sonry Napa Valley paired pieces like Philippe Starck’s Eros chairs for Kartell and two 1960s Swedish chairs with the client’s Oushak rug.
Photo by Joe Fletcher .
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