Armchair 'Von Vogelsang' by Philippe Starck for Driade

The French designer Philippe Starck (born 1949 in Paris) studied at the École Nissim de Camondo. In the 1980s he worked intensively with the Italian furniture manufacturer Driade, designing among other things the armchair Von Vogelsang (around 1985) in powder-coated steel, a characteristic piece of the postmodern design language of that decade. He also became known for the Costes chair (1984) for the Paris club Café Costes and internationally for the Juicy Salif lemon squeezer for Alessi (1990) and the transparent polycarbonate chair Louis Ghost for Kartell (2002), of which more than two million have been sold. Besides furniture, Starck also designs interiors, hotels and everyday objects and is regarded as one of the most prolific designers of his generation.