Philippe Starck Dr. No Cream Dining Chair for Kartell
About the Item
- Creator:Philippe Starck (Designer),Kartell (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Height: 30.75 in (78.11 cm)Width: 21.5 in (54.61 cm)Depth: 20 in (50.8 cm)Seat Height: 18.5 in (46.99 cm)
- Style:Modern (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:1990-1999
- Date of Manufacture:1990
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Minor scuffing to plastic seat and legs. Very good condition overall.
- Seller Location:Miami, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU5392224252512
Philippe Starck
A ubiquitous name in the world of contemporary architecture and design, Philippe Starck has created everything from hotel interiors and luxury yachts to toothbrushes and teakettles. Yet for every project in his diverse portfolio, Starck has maintained an instantly recognizable signature style: a look that is dynamic, sleek, fluid and witty.
The son of an aircraft engineer, Starck studied interior design at the École Nissim de Camondo in Paris. He started his design career in the 1970s decorating nightclubs in the city, and his reputation for spirited and original interiors earned him a commission in 1983 from French president François Mitterrand to design the private apartments of the Élysée Palace. Starck made his name internationally in 1988 with his design for the interiors of the Royalton Hotel in New York, a strikingly novel environment featuring jewel-toned carpeting and upholstery and furnishings with organically shaped cast-aluminum frames. He followed that up in 1990 with an equally impressive redesign of the Paramount Hotel in Manhattan, a project that featured over-scaled furniture as well as headboards that mimicked Old Masters paintings.
Like their designer, furniture pieces by Starck seem to enjoy attention. Designs such as the wedge-shaped J Series club chair; the sweeping molded-mahogany Costes chair; the provocative Ara table lamp; or the sinuous WW stool never fail to raise eyebrows. Other Starck pieces make winking postmodern references to historical designs. His polycarbonate Louis Ghost armchair puts a new twist on Louis XVI furniture; his Out-In chair offers a futuristic take on the classic English high-back chair. But for all his flair, Starck maintains a populist vision of design. While one of his limited-edition Prince de Fribourg et Treyer armchairs might be priced at $7,000, a plastic Starck chair for the Italian firm Kartell is available for around $250. As you will see on 1stDibs, Philippe Starck’s furniture makes a bold statement — and it can add a welcome bit of humor to even the most traditional decor.
Kartell
The Italian design giant Kartell transformed plastic from the stuff of humble household goods into a staple of luxury design in the 1960s. Founded in Milan by Italian chemical engineer Giulio Castelli (1920–2006) and his wife Anna Ferrieri (1918–2006), Kartell began as an industrial design firm, producing useful items like ski racks for automobiles and laboratory equipment designed to replace breakable glass with sturdy plastic. Even as companies like Olivetti and Vespa were making Italian design popular in the 1950s, typewriters and scooters were relatively costly, and Castelli and Ferrieri wanted to provide Italian consumers with affordable, stylish goods.
They launched a housewares division of Kartell in 1953, making lighting fixtures and kitchen tools and accessories from colorful molded plastic. Consumers in the postwar era were initially skeptical of plastic goods, but their affordability and infinite range of styles and hues eventually won devotees. Tupperware parties in the United States made plastic storage containers ubiquitous in postwar homes, and Kartell’s ingenious designs for juicers, dustpans, and dish racks conquered Europe. Kartell designer Gino Colombini was responsible for many of these early products, and his design for the KS 1146 Bucket won the Compasso d’Oro prize in 1955.
Buoyed by its success in the home goods market, Kartell introduced its Habitat division in 1963. Designers Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper created the K1340 (later called the K 4999) children’s chair that year, and families enjoyed their bright colors and light weight, which made them easy for kids to pick up and move. In 1965, Joe Colombo (1924–78) created one of Kartell’s few pieces of non-plastic furniture, the 4801 chair, which sits low to the ground and comprised of just three curved pieces of plywood. (In 2012, Kartell reissued the chair in plastic.) Colombo followed up on the success of the 4801 with the iconic 4867 Universal Chair in 1967, which, like Verner Panton’s S chair, is made from a single piece of plastic. The colorful, stackable injection-molded chair was an instant classic. That same year, Kartell introduced Colombo’s KD27 table lamp. Ferrierei’s cylindrical 4966 Componibili storage module debuted in 1969.
Kartell achieved international recognition for its innovative work in 1972, when a landmark exhibition curated by Emilio Ambasz called “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape” opened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. That show introduced American audiences to the work of designers such as Gaetano Pesce; Ettore Sottsass, founder of the Memphis Group; and the firms Archizoom and Superstudio (both firms were among Italy's Radical design groups) — all of whom were using wit, humor and unorthodox materials to create a bracingly original interior aesthetic.
Castelli and Ferrieri sold Kartell to Claudio Luti, their son-in-law, in 1988, and since then, Luti has expanded the company’s roster of designers.
Kartell produced Ron Arad’s Bookworm wall shelf in 1994, and Philippe Starck’s La Marie chair in 1998. More recently, Kartell has collaborated with the Japanese collective Nendo, Spanish architect Patricia Urquiola and glass designer Tokujin Yoshioka, among many others. Kartell classics can be found in museums around the world, including MoMA, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. In 1999, Claudio Luti established the Museo Kartell to tell the company’s story, through key objects from its innovative and colorful history.
Find vintage Kartell tables, seating, table lamps and other furniture on 1stDibs.
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Miami, FL
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 7 days of delivery.
- Philippe Starck & Eugeni Quitllet White Masters Chairs for Kartell - a PairBy Philippe Starck, Eugeni Quitllet, KartellLocated in Miami, FLPair of white masters chairs by Philippe Starck and Eugeni Quitllet for Kartell. Philippe Starck and Eugeni Quitllet pay homage to three different mid...Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
MaterialsPlastic
- Philippe Starck Olly Tango Chair for Aleph Ubik, 1980sBy Aleph Ubik, Philippe StarckLocated in Miami, FLBent bentwood Olly Tango chair on chrome legs by Philippe Starck for Aleph Ubik.Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Dining Room Chairs
MaterialsMetal
- Philippe Starck "Objet Perdu" Style ChairBy Driade, Philippe StarckLocated in Miami, FLChromed steel tubular frame chair with original upholstered seat. In the style of Philippe Starck.Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dining Room Chairs
MaterialsSteel
- Philippe Starck President M Dining or Center Table for Baleri ItaliaBy Philippe Starck, Baleri ItaliaLocated in Miami, FLPresident M dining or center table with sandblasted seafoam green glass top on a gray enameled steel base by Philippe Starck for Baleri Italia.Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Dining Room Tables
MaterialsSteel
- Riccardo Blumer & Matteo Borghi BB Leather Dining Chairs for Poliform, a PairBy Poliform, Riccardo BlumerLocated in Miami, FLPair of brown leather BB dining or side chairs made with a light expended polyurethane frame and leather exoskeleton. Designed by Riccardo Blumer & Matteo Borghi and manufactured by ...Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Dining Room Chairs
MaterialsLeather, Foam
- Bottega Leather Dining Chairs by Fauciglietti and Bianchi for DWR, PairBy Design Within Reach, Renzo Fauciglietti & Graziella BianchiLocated in Miami, FLPair of chocolate brown leather Bottega side chairs designed by Renzo Fauciglietti & Graziella Bianchi for Design With...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dining Room Chairs
MaterialsSteel
- Rare Grey Postmodern "Dr Glob" Chair by Philippe Starck for Kartell, Italy, 1990By Philippe Starck, KartellLocated in Miami, FLIconic Dr Glob chair. Post Modern design rendered in rare grey molded propylene with a grey powder coated steel frame back and legs. Designed by Philippe Starck for Kartell, 1990.Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Dining Room Chairs
MaterialsSteel
- Pair of Postmodern "Dr Glob" Chairs by Philippe Starck for Kartell, Italy, 1990By Kartell, Philippe StarckLocated in Miami, FLPair of iconic Dr Glob chairs. Post modern design rendered in black molded propylene with a grey powder coated steel frame back and legs. Designed by Philippe Starck for Kartell, 1990.Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Dining Room Chairs
MaterialsSteel
- Kartell Mademoiselle Chair by Philippe StarckBy Philippe Starck, KartellLocated in Brooklyn, NYThe Mademoiselle armchair is dressed in the wide range of Memphis fabrics, designed by Ettore Sottsass and Nathalie du Pasquier. It comes either with t...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dining Room Chairs
MaterialsFabric, Plastic
- Kartell by Philippe Starck Modern Ero/S White Dining ChairBy Philippe Starck, KartellLocated in London, GBOriginally designed by Philippe Starck for Kartell in 1999 the Ero/S chair is inspired by the 1960s but has quickly become a modern design Classic. With an organic shape, the oval...Category
20th Century Italian Dining Room Chairs
MaterialsSteel
- Dr. Glob Chairs by Philippe Starck for KartellBy Kartell, Philippe StarckLocated in Palm Springs, CAA pair of Dr Glob chairs for Kartell by Philippe Starck. Vintage 1980s. In good condition but age and use related scuffs and marks. These are two different com...Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Armchairs
MaterialsMetal
- Kartell Eleganza Nia Chair by Philippe StarckBy Kartell, Philippe StarckLocated in Brooklyn, NYElegance and its discreet charm. Philippe Starck has re-thought the essential lines of Italian style with a timeless chair that combines the world of Haute Couture with bon ton. Dist...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dining Room Chairs
MaterialsFabric, Plastic