“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact. Everything I designed was unnecessary.
I will definitely give up in two years’ time. I want to do something else, but I don’t know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself …design is a dreadful form of expression….
In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.”
Starck said the only objects that he still felt attached to were “a pillow perhaps and a good mattress.” But the thing one needs most, he added, was the “ability to love”.
Philippe Starck, march 2008. Via.