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Philippe starck ghost chair history
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The story of Kartell′s Louis Ghost chair, narrated by its creators
There is a visual fact to which we have become more and more accustomed over the last two decades: a pervasive presence, more precisely an absence perhaps, on which more or less famous personalities have sat, and with which more or less photographed tables and meeting rooms have been populated from time to time.
A piece of plastic in fact, but what a piece, if we think of how it is now assimilated within our visual landscapes, of the 3 million examples scattered around the world since , of those re-interpreted in 20 years by artists and designers.
But where does the Louis Ghost come from?
Is it an expression of s retro-wave or is there more to it?
"The Louis Ghost chair was self-designed 20 years ago” Philippe Starck tells Domus, to better explain how its name got bound so tight to this millennium design icon “It has been shaped by our collective western unconscious.
At once visible and invisible
