Juicy Salif, designed by Philippe Starck and marketed by Alessi

Abstract

If we take a look at Philippe Starck's work, it is clear that he is an artist of his time, a post-modern artist from the very beginning. But like any author who stands out from the average, he was not content to follow in the wake of the artistic movement of the time, but was one of those who defined it. In his pieces we find the revision of artistic forms that had already been abandoned and the mixture between them in an apparent 'totum revolutum' in which anything goes and which is his most genuine hallmark. Appropriationism, irony, the de-dramatisation of the object and its function are present throughout his work. If we also consider that his creative work has been carried out in the field of design, we could reach the conclusion that Starck has succeeded in bridging the ideological - not aesthetic - gap between art and design.