It’s hard to choose one product or piece of furniture that he’s most well-known for to start off this paragraph; the truth is he’s known for a number of famous pieces. You might know him for his creation of the Juicy Salif, a fabulously sleek and space-aged juicer that he created for Alessi in 1990. Or, you could be familiar with him for the series of stylized toothbrushes he created in the late 1980s. Recently he’s contributed his talent to designing Ipod speakers in 2008, or you might know him best for his line of Starck watches with Fossil, Inc.
It’s hard to choose one product or piece of furniture that he’s most well-known for to start off this paragraph; the truth is he’s known for a number of famous pieces. You might know him for his creation of the Juicy Salif, a fabulously sleek and space-aged juicer that he created for Alessi in 1990. Or, you could be familiar with him for the series of stylized toothbrushes he created in the late 1980s. Recently he’s contributed his talent to designing Ipod speakers in 2008, or you might know him best for his line of Starck watches with Fossil, Inc.
If you know furniture, then you probably know Starck the best for his designs with the famous furniture manufacturing company Kartell. Through Kartell Starck has designed pieces like the world-wide phenomenon that is the transparent Louis Ghost chair, the EroS chair, the Bubble Club sofa, and the La Bohème stool. He often creates furniture out of polycarbonate plastic, but he’s worked in many materials.
As for interiors, Starck has designed the Felix restaurant-bar at The Peninsula Hong Kong restaurant, Café Costes in Paris, the Royalton Hotel for Ian Schrager, the Delano Hotel (with Schrager), the hotel SLS Los Angeles at Beverly Hills and much, much more. Always featuring his signature sleek, organic style and sometimes featuring his own furniture and furnishing designs, a Starck interior is something to be experienced.
Born in 1949 in Paris, he did his schooling at the École Nissim de Camondo in Paris. His first design firm he founded in 1968, and oddly, his specialty was inflatable objects. He worked steadily for a few years, but really hit the big time around 1982 when he was commissioned to design the interior for the then French President’s private apartments. Though he’s certainly famous for a number of high-end products and interiors, it was in 2002 when he became accessible to the rest of the world’s population—he shared his design products with Target. And that’s what makes Starck a favorite of ours—not just his eponymous designs that have made him famous, but his dedication to the world of design and how it can help improve everyone’s lives—not just the world’s most wealthy people. 
