Starck, Philippe Patrick (1949- )

French product, furniture, and interior designer. He brought French design to international attention in the 1980s with his innovative and elegant designs, notably those for a room in the Elysée Palace in 1982 and for the Café Costes in Paris in 1984.

The wooden and metal chair he designed for the Café became a huge international success (reproductions numbered over 400,000 in 1990). Starck also designed the interior of New York's Royalton Hotel (1988). His high international profile characterized the ‘designer’ decade.