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Philippe Starck – l’enfant terrible du design
When Philippe Starck and Duravit carried out their first joint project in 1994, it was love at first sight, but neither realized how successful this cooperation would be. The breakthrough came with the famous "Starck barrel", which to this day is one of Duravit’s best sellers. "I always said that the bathroom has to become a wet living room. But no one understood me. Apart from Duravit. That's why I love Duravit!"
Philippe Starck
Philippe-Patrick Starck was born in Paris on the 18th January 1949, the son of aircraft designer André Starck and his wife Jacqueline. Starck spent his childhood under his father’s drawing board, where he would spend hours sawing, cutting, gluing and sanding. From his father, Philippe inherited his inventive nature, and from his mother his poetic view of the world and his elegant life style. It was she who advised him to study design at the École Nissim de Camondo in Paris. Starck took his first steps as a designer using inflatable objects before he became known for the furnishing of the private quarters in the Élysée Palace of French President François Mitterand. Shortly afterwards, his interior design of the Café Costes in Paris made him an international star. Today he creates "intelligent" objects with a commitment to humanity: Television (Thomson), luggage (Samsonite), kettles, knives, vases, watches, scooters, motorbikes (Aprilia), prams (Maclaren), computer mice (Microsoft), even ships and houses - all in all objects for all aspects of life.
Cape Cod
The spirit of...
Cape Cod
It's not a coincidence that Philippe Starck’s bathroom range is named after a peninsula on the east coast of America. "Everyone dreams of a hut on a sand dune at the beach, everyone has their own Cape Cod.“
The bathroom range captures the incomparable spirit of New England, and makes every bathroom into one’s own little Cape Cod.
The bathroom range captures the incomparable spirit of New England, and makes every bathroom into one’s own little Cape Cod.
A Mecca for intellectuals and the wealthy.
The peninsula in south Massachusetts has an area of 255,260 acres; it was first settled by the Mayflower Pilgrims in 1620. Since then, Cape Cod has more and more become a Mecca for intellectuals and the wealthy, and even today is a preferred destination for the rich and famous of Boston and New York. The region is thought of as untouched and at the same time of great architectural interest, as the regional lobster shacks are mixed in with modern architecture.
John F. Kennedy’s real home
Among the most famous residents of Cape Cod was John F. Kennedy, who only here felt truly at home. In Hyannis, there is now an imposing Kennedy Memorial, and his house from those days - only a few minutes' drive away - has become a type of museum. In the first place, the little house concentrates on his private life, especially before he became president.
But architects such as Serge Chermayeff, Eero Saarinen and Marcel Breuer put up buildings here too; their colleague Walter Gropius was a regular visitor - he taught at Harvard, some two and a half hours away by car. Here the architect (center of the picture, with hat) is cavorting around on the beach of Planting Island on the southern tip of Cape Cod. The lady at his feet is Mary Coss, who became curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art.
But architects such as Serge Chermayeff, Eero Saarinen and Marcel Breuer put up buildings here too; their colleague Walter Gropius was a regular visitor - he taught at Harvard, some two and a half hours away by car. Here the architect (center of the picture, with hat) is cavorting around on the beach of Planting Island on the southern tip of Cape Cod. The lady at his feet is Mary Coss, who became curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art.
Lobster emblem
Even today, "Cape Cod" lives off the carefree spirit of New England. Especially right up in Provincetown you find an easy-going, relaxed atmosphere.
For most coastal towns on Cape Cod, fishing was for many years the main source of income, and even today the lobster is here what the oyster is to Sylt. Anyone who has not eaten in a lobster shack has not really experienced Cape Cod: even McDonalds does „lobster rolls“.
A good time to visit is late Spring or September. However, temperatures are such that swimming may not be advisable. But in July and August the region is swamped with tourists and the prices are excessive.
For most coastal towns on Cape Cod, fishing was for many years the main source of income, and even today the lobster is here what the oyster is to Sylt. Anyone who has not eaten in a lobster shack has not really experienced Cape Cod: even McDonalds does „lobster rolls“.
A good time to visit is late Spring or September. However, temperatures are such that swimming may not be advisable. But in July and August the region is swamped with tourists and the prices are excessive.
Eponymist
A piece of organic architecture for everyone is Philippe Starck’s bathroom range Cape Cod, which sees the bathroom as a place of revitalization for the eye, body and soul – just like the magical place after which the range is named.
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