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LONDON DIARY
1. Don’t let this comedian’s age
fool you; Alex Edelman has already
walked away with the laurels from
the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
And he wants you to come see his
new show, Millenial. 31 Jan. £12.50
sohotheatre.com.
Philippe Starck wins coveted Designer of the
Month Award
2. The King of Crowd-Surfing, Steve
Aoki returns to the capital. Don’t
miss out, you might even get a bite
of his cake...after he throws it at
you. 7 Feb. £29.25 O2academybrixton.co.uk.
3. The award-winning comedian,
Susan Calman is touring the UK for
the very first time with her show
Lady Like. 3-15 February, £12.50
sohotheatre.com.
4. Prepare to be unnerved by Marlene Dumas’ exhibition The Image as Burden. This is the largest
exhibition of her work ever held in
Europe. 5 Feb - 10 May. £16 tate.
org.uk
“Phillippe Starck 2011” by jikatu
By Wessel Stoltz
“The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (…) Design without
humor is not human. The word ‘beautiful’ does not mean anything. Only
coherence counts. An object, design or
not, is primarily an object that meets
the parameters of human intelligence,
which reconciles opposites. The lack of
humor is the definition of vulgarity.”
The man behind this fiercely philosophical quote is none other than the
larger than life, superstar-designer
Philippe Starck. And because of his
very eloquent – and sometimes circumlocutious – quotes and the fact
that he’s made the meanest lemon squeezer we’ve ever seen, we’ve
decided to make him our designer
of the month! Oh, and he also celebrates his 66th birthday this month…
The
The name Philippe Starck is synonymous with iconoclastic industrial and
democratic design, but this French
born designer describes his duty as
designer as, “subversive, ethical, ecological, political” and above all, “fun”.
Born to an aeronautical engineer father on January 18, 1949, Philippe
was, at a young age, introduced to
drawing and design. Taking to it like a
fish in water (he did after all retort that
he has scales on his back and webbed
fingers when the Apple founder Steve
Jobs asked him if he’d know how to
design a yacht for him back in 2007…)
the Parisian Philippe Starck later on
studied at the École Camondo in Paris and quickly rose to prominence
after founding his first industrial
design company, Starck Product,
which he later renamed Ubik.
Soon after, Starck began working with
manufacturing giants, Alessi, Drim-
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mer and Vitra and produced designs
ranging from sofas to lamps and electric cars to micro wind turbines. Sure
enough the accolades and awards
started rolling in and among the
more or less 122 awards and decorations Mr. Starck has palmed in
over the last three decades is the
prestigious Grand Prix National of
the Crèation Industrielle in 1988
and the Honor Award of H[Y\