Philippe Starck design is "useless" and wants to change jobs

BERLIN (AFP) - The design is totally unnecessary, is chagrined Thursday in an interview to a German magazine the French star of the genre, Philippe Starck, declaring its intention to change jobs within two years.

"All that I created is absolutely unnecessary. From a structural point of view, design is totally unnecessary. Useful work is an astronomer, biologist or something like that. But the design, it is nothing, "said creator aged 59 years to supplement" Leben "of the weekly" Die Zeit ".

"I tried to give my products a little sense and energy. But even when I gave the best of myself, it was absurd, "says the designer, creator unavoidable since the 1980s, who designed many consumer products.

"I created so many things, not really interest me. Maybe all these years have been necessary for me finally realize that we did Substantive need anything. We still have too ", according to the creator.

The man does not need "nothing material", only "capacity to love", of "intelligence", of "humor" and "ethics," says Starck.

"I was a producer of materiality. I am ashamed. In the future, I want to be a producer of concepts. It will be more useful. "

"In two years, I stopped, definitely. I'll do something else, I do not know what. It will be a new form of expression. A new weapon, faster, more violent and lighter than design. "

Via AFP