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Paris-born Philippe Patrick Starck (b. 1949) has a wide range of design, but is very well known for his consumer goods and interiors. He was educated in Paris at the école Camondo and founded his first design firm, which specialized in inflatable objects, in 1968. The next year, he became art director of his firm along with Pierre Cardin. He has worked both independently as an interior designer and as a product designer since 1975. After designing the private apartment interiors for French President Fran?ois Mitterrand in 1982, his career began to climb significantly. In 1986 he joined Domus Academy Department of Design as an associate lecturer. Two of Starck's famous designs include stylized toothbrushes (1989) and a sleek juicer dubbed the Juicy Salif created for Alessi in 1990. The Juicy Salif has become an affordable and popular cult item.

German fashion creative brand CLASSICON, founded in 1990 in Munich, Germany. ClassiCon has always sought to bring high-quality design works to every corner of the world, to meet people's most real and practical functional needs and timeless beauty, without being affected by fashion trends. Germany's industrial design and product design has always been a world leader, while CLASSICON is the leader in German furniture design. Its design is different from the short-lived fashion trend, and it is brave to pursue the ultimate originality, with both functionalism and timeless beauty. . ClassiCon believes that the most important thing is not the style but the quality. It refuses to put the function in the design after the beauty, while opposing the over-decoration, and always adopts an inclusive attitude towards the new design concept. ClassiCon recognizes the power of design as a global language and is therefore happy to work with great designers from around the world to create a diverse, international product. Such as female architect Eileen Gray, industrial designer Norman Cherner, German architect Eckart Muthesius and so on. ClassiCon is fully trusted by young designers. The Bell side table was designed by the new designer Sebastian Herkner for ClassiCon, which has become the brand's most iconic representative. Sebastian Herkner is a very talented young designer. Since 2008, he has appeared in the eyes of international audiences with his enthusiastic awards. From the German Heimtextil “Newcomer Innovation Award” to the “Best Communication Concept Award” in Cologne 2009, from the German Red Dot Award in 2010 to the 2011 Delta Industrial Design Award “Delta Award”, he was included. Sebastian Herkner's favorite design style is not the usual concept, "German design" gives people a very precise and rational cold and straight line. When designing the Bell series side table, he decided to challenge the tradition of making table legs with the lightweight, fragile material of hand-made glass and making the table top with metal. However, the technicians who can blow out the exquisite hand-made glass have become less and less in Western Europe. He finally found the right craft in Eastern Europe, so that this wonderful series can be presented to the world. Bell's success has also made the ClassiCon brand famous. This eye-catching brand has always created a number of stunning modern furniture with the values ​​of “classic modern design”.