Kartell Tic & Tac Clock in Gold by Philippe Starck & Eugeni Quitllet
About the Item
- Creator:
- Dimensions:Height: 11.82 in (30 cm)Width: 11.82 in (30 cm)Depth: 3.15 in (8 cm)
- Style:Modern (In the Style Of)
- Materials and Techniques:Plastic,Other
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:2022
- Production Type:New & Custom(Current Production)
- Estimated Production Time:11-12 weeks
- Condition:
- Seller Location:Brooklyn, NY
- Reference Number:
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: Perth Amboy, NJ
- Return PolicyThis item cannot be returned.
- Kartell Tic & Tac Clock in Chrome by Philippe Starck & Eugeni QuitlletBy Philippe Starck, Kartell, Eugeni QuitlletLocated in Brooklyn, NYA transparent square "box" measuring 30x30 cm with Roman numerals engraved on the surface encompassing the flat clock face where a slim pair of colored hands stand out in a chromatic...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
MaterialsPlastic
- Kartell Tic & Tac Clock in White by Philippe Starck & Eugeni QuitlletBy Kartell, Philippe Starck, Eugeni QuitlletLocated in Brooklyn, NYA transparent square "box" measuring 30x30 cm with Roman numerals engraved on the surface encompassing the flat clock face where a slim pair of colored hands stand out in a chromatic...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
MaterialsPlastic
- Kartell Tic & Tac Clock in Black by Philippe Starck & Eugeni QuitlletBy Philippe Starck, Kartell, Eugeni QuitlletLocated in Brooklyn, NYA transparent square "box" measuring 30x30 cm with Roman numerals engraved on the surface encompassing the flat clock face where a slim pair of colored hands stand out in a chromatic...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
MaterialsPlastic
- Kartell Tic & Tac Clock in Orange Red by Philippe Starck & Eugeni QuitlletBy Philippe Starck, Kartell, Eugeni QuitlletLocated in Brooklyn, NYA transparent square "box" measuring 30x30 cm with Roman numerals engraved on the surface encompassing the flat clock face where a slim pair of colored hands stand out in a chromatic...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
MaterialsPlastic
- Kartell Air Du Temps Table Clock in Crystal Gold by Eugeni QuitlletBy Kartell, Eugeni QuitlletLocated in Brooklyn, NYLightness is the watchword of the table clock "Air du Temps" inhabited by hollows and light. Its aerial shape and its clean and essential design allow time to elapse suspended on a...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
MaterialsMetal
- Kartell Air du Temps Table Clock in White by Eugeni QuitlletBy Eugeni Quitllet, KartellLocated in Brooklyn, NYLightness is the watchword of the table clock "Air du Temps" inhabited by hollows and light. Its aerial shape and its clean and essential design allow t...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
MaterialsMetal
- Patek Philippe Cartel ClockBy Patek PhilippeLocated in New Orleans, LAThe famed Patek Philippe crafted this spectacular gilt bronze cartel clock. The case is exuberantly embellished in the Louis XV style with scrolling foliate work and an argyle-patterned screen punctuated with rosettes. The decorative screen conceals a panel of solar cells on the front of the timepiece. These photoelectric cells, along with a backup lithium battery, power the caliber 17-250 mechanical movement. It tells the time on a white enamel dial with both Roman and Arabic numerals and ornate brass hands. The timepiece comes complete with its original fitted Patek Philippe box. Overall, this clock displays the lasting quality and style of this legendary Swiss firm. Patek Philippe is one of the world’s premier luxury brands and is widely regarded as the world's most prestigious watchmaker. Founded in 1851 by Polish watchmaker Antoni Patek and French watchmaker Adrien Philippe...Category
Mid-20th Century Swiss Other Wall Clocks
MaterialsBronze
- Nomon Pico Wall Clock in Gold By Andres MartinezBy ANDRÉS MARTÍNEZLocated in Brooklyn, NYPICO ø40cm Avant-garde design with a nordic air, which combines walnut wood or oak finished wood with black and white colours. Available in Black and Walnut, white and O...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Wall Clocks
MaterialsWalnut, Fiberglass, Polystyrene
- Pierre-Philippe Thomire Empire Marble Mantle ClockLocated in Atlanta, GAPierre-Philippe Thomire (French, 1751-1843) Empire marble mantel (fireplace) clock. 1st quarter 19th century; Rouge Griotte marble and bronze doré...Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clocks
MaterialsMarble, Bronze
- Nomon Micro Anda Wall Clock in Gold By Jose RamirezBy ANDRÉS MARTÍNEZLocated in Brooklyn, NYYou have probably valued buying an avant-garde wall clock model but have not found enough information to be able to value it. This wall clock is part of the Nomon lacquered wood coll...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Wall Clocks
MaterialsBrass, Chrome
- Mantel Clock 19th Century Louis Philippe Charles XLocated in Warsaw, PLThe clock is in excellent and perfect working condition. In addition, it was recently cleaned and serviced by a professional clockmaker who specializes in maintaining museums. The ei...Category
Antique 19th Century French Charles X Mantel Clocks
MaterialsMalachite, Bronze
- Board game tic-tac-toeLocated in Нұр-Сұлтан, KZBoard game tic-tac-toe made of oak wood, oiled, handmadeCategory
21st Century and Contemporary Desk Sets
MaterialsOak