Design Star Starck: Using Pencil Not Kalashnikov to Save the World
April 21, 2008 | Levent OZLER
He may be the global darling of design, but fast-talking hyperactive Philippe Starck wants esthetic considerations struck off the menu.
Ethics are the order of the day, he believes, if the planet is to be saved.
Starck, now 59 but still edgily young with jeans, sweatshirt, stubble and a just-married fourth wife, this month joined a team of high-flying French civil servants and politicians planning the country's upcoming European Union presidency.
"The only thing that interests me in this world, apart from the love I have for my wife, is not design, but us, our history," he said in an interview.
"We can only survive if united in Europe against the world's new great masters from Asia," said the man who July 1 becomes "artistic director" of France's six-month EU stint.
"We must bring more Europe into France, make people understand this is important."
How exactly he plans to do that on the artistic front remains a secret - as does his biggest-ever future project on the drawing-board "which if I succeed will at last make me feel my life was worth living."
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