A career rich with 10,000 creations – completed or yet to come – global fame and tireless protean inventiveness should never overshadow the essential, Philippe Starck has a mission, a vision: that creation, whatever form it takes, must improve the lives of as many people as possible.
In the eyes of this accomplished citizen of the world, sharing his ethical and humanist vision of a more equal planet is a duty, if not a moral imperative, that results in unconventional projects, bearing fertile surprises. It’s easy to guess his course of action: an object must be useful before being beautiful.
From everyday products like furniture and lemon squeezers to revolutionary mega-yachts, intensely vibrant, stimulating and phantasmagorical hotels and the miraculous technologies of individual wind turbines and the electric car, he never stops pushing the limits and criteria of contemporary design.

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• 1997: President’s Award from the British association D&AD and the Harvard Excellence in Design Award
• 2009: Most Innovative Yacht in Yachts France
• 2008: Most Innovative Exterior Yacht Design of the Year
• 2011: Interior Design Award
• 2012: Eco Design Award
• 2015: Distree Diamond Award