MAMA SHELTER HOTEL ISTANBUL
DESIGN BY PHILIPPE STARCK
DESIGN BY PHILIPPE STARCK
MAMA SHELTER HOTEL ISTANBUL - DESIGN BY PHILIPPE STARCK
In 2008 he applied this generous, humanist idea to Paris by designing the Mama Shelter. This hotel bears witness to the new social values of an open minded cultural tribe founded on rigour, honesty, humour, intelligence and sharing. On its origins, he explains, “There’s a story of profound friendship. As soon as I met the Trigano, who initiated this project, I became part of the family. This very human adventure based the project on love. Together we wanted to bring a democratic dream to fruition... give the best to the most people possible using the newest ideas and the energy of the young.”
Born from a philosophical and political desire this establishment, in its neglected urban yet vibrating landscape, accompanies the most inventive, most determined aspects of the future.
Just as Starck’s dreams are destined to sow their fruitful seeds everywhere, those of the Mama Shelter now take place in Lyon, Bordeaux, Istanbul and Paris.
MAMA SHELTER ISTANBUL
We told since the launching of MAMA SHELTER PARIS in September 2008
that our development would be a series of “heart crushes” answering to a deep
desire of creating links between people for a pacified humanity.
The idea of MAMA SHELTER ISTANBUL is based on love. This is the
story of a “Somewhere” that reveals the power of the men who decide to live
together with their own cultures, their own religions and meanings. Istanbul is
like the witness of an “In between” Europe and Asia, where we can find the certainty
that the curiosity of the Other enables to build our own mind.
This idea that only the otherness can be the path where are hidden
the secrets necessary to the realization of a plural world where the human
being is shining. MAMA ISTANBUL is illustrating this quest of the possible.
A love story. The love story of one of the founders of MAMA
SHELTER, Jérémie TRIGANO, who had lived in Istanbul for ten years. Our love, made of differences, will be stronger.
Jérémie travelled the city to eventually set his eyes on a district that has
represented for centuries the face of Turkish plurality: Beyoglu.
The modern Beyoglu is rich of a wonderful shopping district
welcoming people of every ages and from every social backgrounds. The main
street is the effervescent and historical Istiklal Caddesi joining the Taksim
square to the Tünel square.
A pedestrian street with multiple and different shops, typical and
modern coffees, pastries from everywhere, restaurants for every budget,
but also pubs, clubs and bars, and the best bookshops of the city, theatres,
cinemas and art galleries.
Istikal Caddesi has a 19th century metropolitan atmosphere, and the
avenue is made of elegant neo-classic and “Art Nouveau” buildings. The tram
that seems to belong to another time, and wonders all along the avenue, has
been resettled at the beginning
of the 1990’s to restore the former energy.
For the first time on the international scale, the founders of Mama
Shelter gathered around a place just like them that one more time enables them
to welcome the others in their own way. There is a desire to innovate in
Istanbul with a surprising place, a place that first exists because of the
vibrations of a neighborhood, with the energy of its inhabitants, with a city
and its travelers. There is a dream to create a unique, atypical, romantic and
participative place that is not a hotel, but more of a village, a real “urban
bazaar” made of meetings, freedom, sparkling, sensations and emotions.
This Mama has also been designed with the genius of Starck who made
references to Istanbul without ever falling into the traditional clichés.
«It was normal, logical, natural that Mama Shelter, meeting points
of all generations, of all creations, of all energies, settles down one day in
Istanbul, a junction between all cultures, all civilizations, all futures».
Philippe Starck
Mama Istanbul is also a living place where all the spaces will play
the part of diversity, mixing profiles, cultures and the favorite dishes
elaborated by the chefs Alain Senderens and Jérôme Banctel, a mix of local and
French food.
The bar and the large tables will vibrate with the sound of the
“live stage”, making of MAMA the theatre of Nouba. But this universe will also
belong to the ones who want to think about the great challenges of the future
in our meeting rooms, heady with light and words thrown by “poet designers”
written with chalk sticks to underline the fragility of our prejudices.
Over the time, Istanbul has also become the “Shelter” of the world.
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"The best everyday example of
relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design
without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does not mean anything. Only
coherence counts. An object, design or not, is primarily an object that meets
the parameters of human intelligence, which reconciles opposites. The lack of
humor is the definition of vulgarity. "
Philippe Starck
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PHILIPPE STARCK
« I like to open the doors of the human brain »
Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck biography by Jonathan Wingfield January 2010
“Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous... this is how I
see my duty as a designer.”
Philippe Starck
The thousands of projects - complete or forthcoming - his global fame and
tireless protean inventiveness should never distract from Philippe Starck’s
fundamental vision: Creation, whatever form it takes, must improve the
lives of as many people as possible. Starck vehemently believes
this poetic and political duty, rebellious and benevolent, pragmatic and subversive,
should be shared by everyone and he sums it up with the humour that has set him
apart from the very beginning: “No one has to be a genius, but everyone has to
participate.”
His precocious awareness of ecological implications, his enthusiasm
for imagining new lifestyles, his determination to change the world, his love
of ideas, his concern with defending the intelligence of usefulness –
and the usefulness of intelligence – has taken him from iconic creation to
iconic creation... From the everyday products, furniture and lemon squeezers,
to revolutionary mega yachts, hotels that stimulate the senses,
phantasmagorical venues and individual wind turbines, he never stops pushing
the limits and criteria of contemporary design. His dreams are solutions,
solutions so vital that he was the first French man to be invited to
the TED conferences (Technology, Entertainment &
Design) alongside renowned participants including Bill Clinton and Richard
Branson.
Inventor, creator, architect, designer, artistic director, Philippe Starck
is certainly all of the above, but more than anything else he is an honest man
directly descended from the Renaissance artists.
A CHILDHOOD OF ART
“My father was an aeronautical engineer. For me it was a duty to invent”.
Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck was born in 1949. From his childhood spent beneath the
drawing tables of his airplane building, aeronautic engineer father, he retains
a primary lesson: everything should be organised elegantly and rigorously, in
human relationships as much as in the concluding vision that presides over
every creative gesture. His absolute belief that creation should be used and
enjoyed by all sees him relentlessly endeavouring to do well, right down to the
tiniest detail.
But years later has he really left his first improvised office? According
to him, not completely. “Ultimately they were children’s games, imagination
games, but thanks to various skills, especially engineering, something
happened. I’m a kid who dreams and at the same time I’ve got that
light-heartedness and gravity of children. I fully accept the rebellion, the
subversion and the humour.”
Starck first showed interest in living spaces while he was a student at the
Ecole Nissim de Camondo in Paris, where in 1969 he designed an inflatable
house, based on an idea on materiality. This revelation bought his first
success at the Salon de l’Enfance. Not long afterwards, Pierre Cardin, seduced
by the iconoclastic design, offered him the job of artistic director at his
publishing house.
In 1976 and a few emblematic objects later, including a flying lamp
and a portable neon sign, this intrepid dreamer created the audacious decor of
the night club, La Main Bleue - in Montreuil – demonstrating
that no venue is less respectable than another just because of its
eccentricity. He went on to do the legendary Parisian nightclub Les Bains
Douches and the Starck Club in Dallas.
At the same time he founded his first industrial design company, Starck
Product, which he later renamed Ubik after the famous Philip K. Dick
novel. Here he initiated his collaborations with the biggest design
manufacturers in Italy - Driade, Alessi, Kartell - and
the world – Drimmer in Austria, Vitra in Switzerland
Swiss and Disform in Spain, among so many others.In 1983 the
general public discovered Philippe Starck when, on the advice of Culture
Minister Jack Lang, President François Mitterrand chose his project to decorate
the private residences at the Elysée Palace. It symbolised an institutional
recognition of design. The following year his fame went global thanks to the
success of the Café Costes, a new venue that was functional
and elegant, that contained all the essence of Starck architecture while
converging with the birth and the flourishing of a community. His reinvention
of the codes of the Parisian cafe made it THE cafe par excellence.
