In STARCK Terms
The French have always had a handle on style. No one is more adept at inventing and reinventing today’s lifestyle than French design superstar Philippe Starck. He started his style revolution by designing nightclubs in the late ’70s. When he was chosen in 1983 by President Mitterrand to be one of the designers to re-imagine the private presidential apartments in the Elysées Palace, the young Starck stepped into the spotlight. Some thirty-five years later, he is a confirmed French design legend, still stage center. His hotels, restaurants, cafés, nightclubs, European contributing editor Jean Bond Rafferty conversed with Starck.
