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Philieppe Starck
The son of an aeronautical engineer, Philippe Starck was born in Paris in 1949 and attended the École Nissim de Camondo in Paris from 1965 until 1967. In 1969 Philippe Starck became art director at Pierre Cardin. In the 1970s Philippe Starck embarked on a career as an interior decorator; stylish early interiors he designed include the "La Main Bleue" bar in Montreuil (1976) and "Les Bains Douches" in Paris (1978). In 1980 he founded Starck Products and, in 1985, a furniture-making firm, XO (with Gerard Mialet). In 1982 Philippe Starck was one of the designers commissioned b[... mehr]
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Henry Massonnet was born in Oyonnax, a small village perched at an altitude of 700 metres in the Ain department, France.
After his baccalaureate, he went to Paris and entered the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He enrolled in the Higher Teacher Training College and was sought after by the Grande Ecole of Engineering but his head was eventually turned by a young girl from Lyon whose love drew him away from his brilliant studies.
In 1948, he established the company STAMP inside an old mill in Nurieux, a small village located half-way between Bourg-en-Bresse and Oyonnax.
1968: The Tam Tam Stool. A roa[... mehr]
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