Explore a career-long dialogue with nature through design.
Exhibition Overview
Ketabi Bourdet in Paris is hosting Philippe Starck: The Spirit of the Forest, a retrospective tracing Starck’s evolution from using nature as a stylistic metaphor in the 1980s to adopting it as a functional system for everyday living. The exhibition demonstrates how Starck has consistently leveraged design to rethink memory, resources, and consumption.
Highlights
- Maison Starck (1994): A pioneering mail-order house created with 3 Suisses, offering affordable, high-quality alternatives to mass-market housing.
- Bo Boolo (1995): Furniture that required buyers to cut a birch trunk spacer on-site with a forest ranger, emphasizing material cycles and shared responsibility.
- Jim Nature TV (1994): Encased in particleboard, showcasing early eco-design thinking.
- Iconic furniture pieces like the W.W. stool, Vase Popopo, and Chaise Dick Deck, which blend surreal humor with functional design and organic forms.
Exhibition Details
- Location: Ketabi Bourdet, Paris
- On View Until: February 28, 2026
This exhibition highlights Starck’s visionary approach to eco-design, making nature an integral part of form, function, and responsibility.
