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Article: PRIVATE VIEW: A real-life tele-visionary.
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- Design Week
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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Philippe Starck's recent TV show has been the subject of derision in the design world, but there was wisdom among the buffoonery, says Adrian Shaughnessy
Philippe Starck is a bona fide genius, and his BBC Two show - Philippe Starck's School of Design - was a brilliant ad for design. There, I've said it, and it feels good. Of course, I realise this is heresy. In Design Land it has become obligatory to savage the show. Stephen Bayley said it shared the same genetic code as Opportunity Knocks. And in the civilised pages of Design Week, Starck has been called 'an idiot' and the 'worst type of stereotypical designer' (Letters, DW 15 October).
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