Philippe Starck

According to Vogue France, Lily of the Valley, near Cap Lardier, is described as Starck's first project on the Côte d'Azur.¹ According to Vogue France, Philippe Starck is a French designer whose work includes hotels, restaurants, yachts and a marina.^1,3,4 According to Architectural Digest, Starck designed L'Avenue restaurant at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York.³

According to Architectural Digest, L’Avenue can be reached from the store’s ninth floor or a street entrance at 8 East 50th Street.³ According to boatinternational.com, Starck conceived the design of Motor Yacht A in 2004.⁴ According to boatinternational.com, Starck has lived in homes including a house in Burano, Venice, and a glass house on a dune in southern Portugal.^4,5

According to boatinternational.com, Starck works hermit-like at his desk for a week at a time with pencil and A4 paper.⁴ According to boatinternational.com, Starck receives more than 50 enquiries per week, handled by his associate Jasmine.⁴ According to Boat International, Starck reportedly keeps 15 or more boats around Europe, none larger than 15 metres, and sails alone.⁴

According to boatinternational.com, Motor Yacht A is 119 metres in length and its owner approved the design in about 15 minutes.⁴ According to Philippe Starck, Motor Yacht A was designed for an owner seeking an opulent interior.⁴ According to Philippe Starck, Starck also designed Steve Jobs's yacht Venus, whose interior he contrasted with Motor Yacht A's.⁴

According to boatinternational.com, Boat International gives Steve Jobs's yacht Venus a length of 78.2 metres.⁴ According to Architectural Digest, Starck travels at least 180 days per year.⁶ According to Architectural Digest, Starck's hotel design work dates back to the 1980s.⁶ According to Architectural Digest, Separate profiles call Starck 69 and 67 without dates in this pack, so his age at a given time is not fixed here; Vanity Fair places one interview at his southern Portugal seaside home.^5,6

Vogue says the hotel’s design draws on the gardens of Babylon, Provençal monasteries and Californian villas.¹ Starck says his interest in projects lies in the feelings and experiences they can offer people.¹ Starck says he met Alain Weill and Weill’s daughter Lucie while developing Lily of the Valley.¹

Starck says Alain gave them unfinished room 27, called the Jasmine and Philippe room, which still lacked their music.¹ According to Vogue France, the Lily of the Valley hotel is located roughly 15-20 minutes from Saint-Tropez, a point on which the panel's sources or readings disagree.¹ Starck says he is not very familiar with the French Riviera.¹

According to Architectural Digest, architectural Digest describes L’Avenue at Saks as having two dining settings, The Salon and The Chalet.³ According to L'Avenue at Saks project representative, Starck's prior work with Jean-Louis Costes led to his involvement with L'Avenue at Saks.³ According to Philippe Starck, Starck describes The Salon as ivory and powdered pink, a place of sun and heat.³

Starck says a design can sometimes take only 30 seconds to produce.⁴ According to Boat International, the same account calls that vessel the world’s most talked-about superyacht and gives its length as 119 metres.⁴ Starck says his hotels do not follow a single cultural, fashion or architectural aesthetic.⁶

According to Vanity Fair, Philippe Starck is a French designer described as nominally an industrial designer who works across many fields.⁵ According to Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair portrays Starck as exuberant and boundlessly, comparing him to Raymond Loewy, Buckminster Fuller and Willy Wonka.⁵ According to Vanity Fair, design and lifestyle publications describe Starck's work as spanning numerous design disciplines.^5,6 According to Philippe Starck, Starck described his southern Portugal home as a glass shoebox on a dune in the manner of Mies van der Rohe.⁵