A Look Back at Starck’s Nature-Loving 90s Era

Galerie Ketabi Bourdet turns to (former podcast guest) Philippe Starck’s long-running dialogue with nature in The Spirit of the Forest, (until Feb. 28) in Paris. The exhibition traces an “eco-minded” undercurrent in Starck’s work—less the slick minimalism of the 1980s than a softer, referential language that prefigures his later emphasis on the common good. Highlights include materials and ideas from Maison Starck (1994), his utopian, affordable-house proposal developed with mail-order giant 3 Suisses, and the Bo Boolo collection (1995), which brought the forest indoors via raw tree-trunk elements while acknowledging forestry stewardship through France’s National Forestry Office