Driade - Costes armchair mahogany

There are objects that are universally recognized as icons. The Costes armchair that, in 1984, marked the beginning of the collaboration between Philippe Starck and Driade, and the consecration of the then unknown designer in Italy, is certainly one of these objects. Designed for the homonymous, now disappeared, Parisian coffee, owes its timeless success to the absoluteness of form: an enveloping shell in dark wood and three legs strongly inclined.

Philippe Starck

Philippe Starck, world-renowned architect and designer, designed for FIAM Caadre glass mirror, which is also available with tv included (Caadre TV). Starck was born in Paris in 1949 and first studied at Notre Dame de Sainte Croix in Neuilly and then he graduated from École Nissim de Camondo in Paris.
An exterior, interior and product architect, Starck is active in every field of design. In 1989 he designed the Asahi and Nani Nani buildings in Tokyo. In 1991, in a single year, he designed a building in Osaka, ten buildings in Los Angeles, the Angle Building in Antwerp, in Belgium, and an entire district in Paris. As an interior architect, in 1982 he designed the current layout of the Elysée Palace, in 1984 Café Costes and in 1985 Manin in Tokyo.In addition to furniture collections for French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Swiss companies, he created the Fluocaril toothbrush, bags and suitcases for Vuitton, street furniture for Décaux, bottles for Glacier, sailing-boats for Bénéteau, vehicles, cutlery and tableware, and computers.
The awards received by the designer over the years are not few. Among them: Designpreis, Design Plus, iF Design Award, Red Dot Design Award, Good Design Award and Compasso d'Oro.

Driade

Driade; is an aesthetic workshop in the continuous search for beauty in living. The extensive catalogue includes furniture for the home, garden and collective spaces. They are objects of art and daily use, souls combing harmoniously. All this makes Driade unique in design world. The aesthetic laboratory is the result of the desire to introduce experimentation into mass-produced products. The pursuit of creativity in every product constitutes the goal of the enterprise. Driade creates products that are unique, eclectic, eccentric but at the same time elegant, timeless and, above all, joyful. The art of living is based on the idea that eclecticism, mélange of cultures, curiosity and surprise are the true essence of our age.
Being permeable to differences makes Driade project a highly topical proposal one that is open to the future. Driade also denies the flattening of globalization but senses its vitality and freshness resulting from the multiplication of places and the development of ideas.