{"id":2879,"date":"2008-04-08T10:55:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T15:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/the-thing-one-needs-most\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:55:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:55:37","slug":"the-thing-one-needs-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/the-thing-one-needs-most\/","title":{"rendered":"The thing one needs most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact. Everything I designed was unnecessary. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I will definitely give up in two years\u2019 time. I want to do something else, but I don\u2019t know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself \u2026design is a dreadful form of expression\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Starck said the only objects that he still felt attached to were \u201ca pillow perhaps and a good mattress.\u201d But the thing one needs most, he added, was the \u201cability to love\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Philippe Starck, march 2008. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=080327175559.tvacjlyi\">Via<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cI 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\u2019 time. I want to do something else, but I don\u2019t know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself \u2026design is a dreadful form&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/the-thing-one-needs-most\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The thing one needs most<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6867,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/6867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}