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Philippe Starck

Born on January 18, 1949 in Paris, Philippe Starck is considered the number one designer in Europe, in addition to carrying out activities as an architect by designing (he has designed numerous premises in Paris, New York and Tokyo).
Still a student at the Notre Dame of Saint Croix in Neully, he creates a company of inflatable structures financed by the French actor Lino Ventura. In 1970 he created the "Easy Light" lighting system, before his creations were edited. In 1981, the meeting with Jean-Louis Costes, allows Starck to conceive, three years after the renovation of the famous Café Costes, in the Place des Innocents, in the first constituency of Paris.It is winner of important prizes such as the Grand Prix National de the Création Industrielle (1988) and the Honor Award of the American Institute of Architects in 1992 for the Paramount Hotel in New York. He holds an important teaching activity.
In 2000 he redesigned the entire collection of Emeco, the American company considered an American classic, which produces the legendary Navy chair, the hand-finished aluminum chair designed for the US Navy that is found in Hollywood films, in New York bars, in the villas of Frank Gehry.