Occupation: Designer Birth: January 18, 1949
Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary..
We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept..
My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations..
Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning..
Future is about dematerialisation..
For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money..
Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer..
My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design]..
I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist..
Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence..
In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poe….
I have this mental sickness called creativity..
No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate..
The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beaut….
I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories..
Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics..
Working with Emeco has allowed me to use a recycled material and transform it into something that never needs to be discarded - a tireless and unbrea….
Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of….
In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant..
In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minim….
For the organic food, the less it's designed, the better it is.