I no longer wish to talk about design
Extract of a conversation between Philippe Starck and Pierre Doze, Paris, December 2002. Exerpt from the book 'Starck by Starck'.
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In my head, I have replaced perception of the visible with vision of the real. I now live in a different structure, one composed not of bolts, solder, structure and collage, but of entities linked by vectors of energy.
Dimensions
In general, all of life takes place in two dimensions, and is populated by flat, banal, prefabricated images. But it can be radically transformed the moment one begins to have lightning visions in three dimensions. Only in the transition to the real, to the carnal, can the notion of infinity at last be grasped. And from that moment on, things are no longer the same.
Beyond, there are other visions. Beyond three dimensions begins the analysis of structure, of what is behind the scenes: impulses, architectures, intimate dynamics. Nowadays, I refuse to see the finished product; my ambition is to see only that of which it is made. This involves a constant effort to ennoble - through understanding - the components of things. Combined with a neoscientific way of working, this allows one to learn humane and practical lessons; I try to apply to the must humble of quotidian routines what I observe in these thought-experiments. I call this attitude "reductive nobility".
Science
I didn't study science, but it's the only thing that interests me. Through theoretical rudiments, I seek the first flickering of comprehension, moving toward an understanding of everything that surrounds us. There lies the aristocracy of thought, there is our nobility. I understand science as an intuition that can, perhaps, be verified. My interest in verification is limited, unlimited my interest in approaching intuition. A strange gymnastics of the mind is required, a sort of hygienic functioning, allowing it to garner every day a new dimension.
Mutation
To avoid the random, to avoid shipwreck, it is important to understand that we are not an isolated segment but a stage. We are the snapshot of a movement that has a point of departure and a point of arrival. We should understand ourselves as action not state. This is essential.
We should undertake a little memory exercise: remembering the humility of our condition, that of a bacteria ignorant even of reproduction, which copies clay crystals. You see what level we were at.
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In my head, I have replaced perception of the visible with vision of the real. I now live in a different structure, one composed not of bolts, solder, structure and collage, but of entities linked by vectors of energy.
Dimensions
In general, all of life takes place in two dimensions, and is populated by flat, banal, prefabricated images. But it can be radically transformed the moment one begins to have lightning visions in three dimensions. Only in the transition to the real, to the carnal, can the notion of infinity at last be grasped. And from that moment on, things are no longer the same.
Beyond, there are other visions. Beyond three dimensions begins the analysis of structure, of what is behind the scenes: impulses, architectures, intimate dynamics. Nowadays, I refuse to see the finished product; my ambition is to see only that of which it is made. This involves a constant effort to ennoble - through understanding - the components of things. Combined with a neoscientific way of working, this allows one to learn humane and practical lessons; I try to apply to the must humble of quotidian routines what I observe in these thought-experiments. I call this attitude "reductive nobility".
Science
I didn't study science, but it's the only thing that interests me. Through theoretical rudiments, I seek the first flickering of comprehension, moving toward an understanding of everything that surrounds us. There lies the aristocracy of thought, there is our nobility. I understand science as an intuition that can, perhaps, be verified. My interest in verification is limited, unlimited my interest in approaching intuition. A strange gymnastics of the mind is required, a sort of hygienic functioning, allowing it to garner every day a new dimension.
Mutation
To avoid the random, to avoid shipwreck, it is important to understand that we are not an isolated segment but a stage. We are the snapshot of a movement that has a point of departure and a point of arrival. We should understand ourselves as action not state. This is essential.
We should undertake a little memory exercise: remembering the humility of our condition, that of a bacteria ignorant even of reproduction, which copies clay crystals. You see what level we were at.
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Starck by Starck
Flexicover, 19.6 x 25.8 cm (7.7 x 10.2 in.), 576 pages
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It's a bird... it's a plane... it's Superstarck!
Philippe Starck & Thierry Gaugain. Photo: Jean-Babtiste Mondino
Saint Esprit, Napoléon and Attila, 1999.