Crazy French

This is good news indeed. Now that inexplicably trendy French interior designer Philippe Starck has announced he's retiring, the world will have fewer pieces of unfathomable, uncomfortable furniture; less complaining about the ugliness of their rooms from guests at swank hotels; and, one hopes, no more unstable three-legged stools. "Everything I designed was unnecessary," said the Frenchman in a moment of clarity to German weekly Die Zeit. "I want to do something else, but I don't know what yet. ...In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant." Starck's new Starck-free world is reduced to only two objects: "a pillow perhaps, and a good mattress." Because, honey, he's tired. (via Breitbart; Starck photo by Jean-Baptiste Mondino; t/y James)

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