Word: starck
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...history. A minor achievement of modern civilization, maybe, but it could explain why producing a chair has been an obligatory rite for ambitious designers of this century. Charles Eames is still famous mainly for his chairs, and the best-known works of today's European café-society designers--Philippe Starck, Enzo Mari--are chairs. Aalto, Breuer and Mies made their marks in the '20s partly by making chairs, and such contemporary architects as Gehry, Meier, Graves, Hollein, Venturi and Ambasz have all felt obliged to design chairs as well as buildings...
Microsoft Starck Optical Mouse...
...look like a futuristic tree ornament or one of Ridley Scott's Alien eggs, but it's really a stylish wired mouse by celebrated designer Philippe Starck. microsoft.com/hardware...
...Village into a 21-story tower, Astor Place (above). The building's multifaceted exterior is chiseled like a precious stone--befitting the multimillion-dollar lofts inside. Further south, just across the street from the New York Stock Exchange, the landmark Equitable Trust Building will soon become Downtown by Philippe Starck. Prices at the 326-unit conversion are a bit more accessible ($500,000 to $3.5 million), and the lap pool, basketball court, and yoga and Pilates studio should appeal to Wall Street traders looking to unwind. For uptowners, there's One Beacon Court, architect Cesar Pelli's 55-story tower...
...FRANCISCO Philippe Starck's clocks for Oregon Scientific are a big hit at Saks Fifth Avenue. They come in three colors, display the local weather and project the time onto the ceiling...