21st Century Philippe Starck for FLOS Gold Machine Gun Rifle Floor Lamps Pair
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21st Century Philippe Starck for FLOS Gold Machine Gun Rifle Floor Lamps Pair
About the Item
- Creator:Philippe Starck (Designer)
- Design:
- Dimensions:Height: 66.54 in (169 cm)Diameter: 22.05 in (56 cm)
- Sold As:Set of 2
- Style:Post-Modern (In the Style Of)
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- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:2014
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Glasgow, GB
- Reference Number:Seller: Flos Starck Lamps1stDibs: LU6391227663632
Machine Gun Lamp
A harmless everyday object that assumes the form of a deadly weapon, the Gun table lamp created by Philippe Starck (b. 1949) is the popular French designer’s loudest political statement in a career full of them. Designed for prominent Italian lighting manufacturer FLOS as part of a series of weapon replicas — a Beretta pistol, an M16 rifle and, in this case, a Kalashnikov AK-47 — the Gun table lamp is cast in aluminum and finished in chrome or polished 18-karat gold. Starck's dimmable fixture uses a medium frosted halogen bulb and is topped off with a silk-screened plasticized paper shade replete with crosses.
At 19 years old in 1968, Starck produced his first piece of furniture — the Francesca Spanish chair. As an interior designer, his commissions have included nightclubs, Café Costes in Paris and apartments for French President François Mitterrand in the Élysée Palace. A prolific product designer of everything from bathroom fittings to watches to staplers to wall coverings, Starck is deeply concerned with sustainability and the ecological implications of his work, and he has brought a democratic and subversive design ethos to mass-market goods over his long career.
Currently, 20 percent of proceeds from sales of the Gun table lamp is donated to anti-poverty nonprofit group Frères des Hommes, which supports social democracy, small-scale agriculture and more around the world. Still in production at FLOS, the provocative fixture — a metaphorical domestication of a weapon — simultaneously confronts violence and consumerism. “I imagined the Gun lamp as a Kalashnikov to represent war, I chose gold to represent money, the black lampshade with crosses inside as a reminder of our lost ones,” says Starck.
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.
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