Starck Raving Mad

When you bring in one of the world’s most famous designers, Philippe Starck, to help design the interiors of your building, it’s probably best to just keep quiet and let him do some rambling about his vision and his process. Otherwise you might get into a bit of a row. In perhaps one of the funniest pieces we’ve read about a designer, is this report in the UK Times about Starck getting into a fight with Kevin Linfoot, a British developer, who, during a meeting with the reported, stopped the designer and asked, essentially, “What in the hell are you talking about?!”

“What we’re missing here is what Philippe (he pronounces it the English way) probably doesn’t realise about this area,” he says, leaning forward on his seethrough chair.

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