Tag: Philippe Starck
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This Plant-Covered Hotel Will Reinvent The Historic District Of São Paulo
The guys at Paris-based architecture firm Ateliers Jean Nouvel have teamed up with the developer Alexandre Allard to come up with this amazing plant-covered luxury hotel design that is set to revive the historic district in São Paulo, Brazil. A 550,000 square-metre complex of historic buildings is being regenerated in the city’s centre and includes…
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10 Questions With… Philippe Starck
“The beautiful story of our animal species in its evolution is my only source of inspiration,” says Philippe Starck, who first caught the public’s eye with an experimental inflatable structure exploring materiality in 1969. In 1983, the French designer—who was just 34 years old—was commissioned by the country’s president, François Mitterrand, for the high-profile interior renovation…