Philippe Starck ‘Masters’ chair
May 27th, 2009 § 3 Comments
Contributed by James Peachy
Philippe Starck unveiled his ‘Masters’ chair for Kartell at Milan design week, stating “we weren’t born just today, there have been masters before us”. As the image below shows, he has taken inspiration from three ‘design masters’ classic chair shapes – Arne Jacobsen, Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen. Starck believes putting them all together creates “a new product, a new project, a reflection on a new society”. We found this at designboom and must admit enjoyed some of the comments as much as the article itself, for example someone called Kasorp has commented “this is the man who said that design is dead and everything he designed is useless. he is right. but why does he still want to proof[sic] it?”
What are your thoughts? Clever and contemporary or are the original classics the more appealing option?
I like the squiggly design!
I would like it more without the Arne Jacobsen shape but it would not be as interesting (anyway you can’t leave out one of the ‘masters’!).