Philippe Starck Calls The House “Unnecessary”

Posted on March 28th, 2008 11:38am by Tim Rogers
Filed under Real Estate

Have you bought your place yet at The House? You know, the place designed by Philippe Starck? Well then: ha! Because Starck says he’s “ashamed” of the place. Ashamed of everything he’s done. It was all unnecessary. Design is dead. Thanks to the FBvian who points us to the story.

14 comments

  1. oh, well then he will definitely return the millions of dollars he has been paid… right?

    @ 11:40 am on March 28, 2008

  2. “Design is dead.” – That sounds so profound and artsy.

    @ 11:51 am on March 28, 2008

  3. It was meant to be uttered by someone in a black turtleneck with man boobs.

    @ 11:58 am on March 28, 2008

  4. Well, as someone who stayed in more than one of his hotel ‘rooms’, here is my thought. To relieve overcrowding in the jails, have non-violent offenders forced to stay in a Starck hospitality industry rented room. And they will go ’straight’; to a place where you don’t walk across the bed to get to a closet that doesn’t exist before you try to use the bathroom w/o a vanity for toiletries, etc., etc. The only problem is… this may be deemed ‘torture’ by various Washington insiders.

    @ 12:35 pm on March 28, 2008

  5. Although it sounds like a perfect Stark, Breitbart, thus… redacted.

    @ 12:43 pm on March 28, 2008

  6. Sprockets.

    (Unnecessary- like so many things in Dallas.)

    @ 12:53 pm on March 28, 2008

  7. How profound. He only finds it embarassing or shameful after he’s cashed the checks. If I were Target, The House or any of the other companies/people who’s paid him millions, I’d be pissed. If he’s so ashamed, he should put his money where his mouth is and donate all of his royalties, commissions, etc. to charity.

    @ 1:26 pm on March 28, 2008

  8. *Saddling up the Bro.*
    Bethany…

    Will a black dickie suffice?

    You know…those neck things. Sheesh.
    http://www.hudsonworkwear.com/fehojinfo.html

    @ 1:27 pm on March 28, 2008

  9. I choked on my tea with that one, Tey. You very nearly made it come out my nose.

    Bravo!

    @ 1:29 pm on March 28, 2008

  10. Wow Philippe! Someone go off their meds?

    @ 2:28 pm on March 28, 2008

  11. I’m sensing a very good reason for a timely price-reduction at the HOUSE.

    @ 2:50 pm on March 28, 2008

  12. Typical French existential posturing. What a bunch of weenies. Weenies weenies weenies. (Who, to their credit, it must be added, would never actually eat weenies.)

    @ 2:52 pm on March 28, 2008

  13. Tim, I still like my email subject line .. “Starck. Raving. Mad.”

    @ 3:01 pm on March 28, 2008

  14. Full of oneself, are we?

    Seems rather pompous.

    @ 11:28 pm on March 29, 2008