Philippe Starck e a apropriação de conceitos da arte para o design

Abstract

The paper focuses on Philippe Starck's action, as a designer who uniquely incorporates concepts and elements of art in his projective practice. The analyzes are based on Starck's narratives and interviews in comparison with the interpretations of some of his interlocutors (designer Andrea Branzi, design historian Judith Carmel-Arthur, journalist and art critic Cristina Morozzi and philosopher Michel Onfray). From the identification of ambiguities and contradictions in his arguments, we dialogue with concepts of the design historian Rafael Cardoso and the philosophers Arthur Danto, Vilém Flusser and Virginia Figueiredo, trying to understand strategies and intentions, explicit and implicit, in Starck's speeches. The objective is to assess the distance between these intentions and their design solutions, as well as the developments for design and the feedbacks between this field and art.