Just wow. Starck crushed it with these stellar table knives forged from one piece of stainless steel and featuring a woody bark detail on the satin finished handles. Philippe Starck followed in the footsteps of his father, an aeronautical engineer, in the 1950s. He always enjoyed sawing, cutting, pasting and handling of any objects. Three decades later he founded Starck Products and soon became one of the most famous contemporary French designers world wide. Among the most significant creations of his prolific career were the renovation of President François Mitterrand's private apartments at the Elysée, the Baccarat house in Moscow, and the legendary Royalton Hotel lobby in New York(RIP). Philippe Starck is the first designer in Forge de Laguiole's "Laguiole by Designer" project.