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Philippe Starck made artistic boss of France's EU presidency

  • Tuesday, 01 April 2008
  • AFP

PARIS, April 1, 2008 (AFP) - Designer Philippe Starck on Tuesday said he had been named 'artistic director' of France's upcoming EU presidency on the request of Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.

'Bernard Kouchner wants the French presidency to have a very interesting, very creative profile,' Starck told AFP.

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Philippe Starck tells magazine design is dead

  • Thursday, 27 March 2008
  • AFP

BERLIN, March 27, 2008 (AFP) - Renowned French designer Philippe Starck says he is fed up with his job and plans to retire in two years, in an interview published in a German weekly on Thursday.

'I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact,' Starck told Die Zeit weekly newspaper.

'Everything I designed was unnecessary.

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