Guess I'll need a plinth for my vast house in a box that I'm taking to the bookfair @ink.ldn #phillipstarck @starck #Chezles3Suisses First edition. 80 x 63 x 9 cm., folder of loose folded architectural plans, blank notepad, facsimile scrapbook, #VHS video cassette, hammer, rolled small French flag on pole, in recessed individual bays cut out of brown corrugated cardboard; each with a printed label, within a hinged light oak box. One of 500 copies only, title and marque printed in blue on lid, handwritten number, uniformly numbered cardboard mailing box. #Paris, #3Suisses, 1994, Very good condition, lacks the sheet of bubblewrap. Rare in commerce and very rare institutionally, no copies on #OCLC, no copy in the @canadiancentreforarchitecture @gettymuseum , @momalibrary , @britishlibrary , NAL @vamuseum The boxed kit looks a little like an assassin’s rifle case for the militant self-builder. The visionary French designer permitted the the box owner to build one numbered house only in France. If s/he wanted two houses a second box had to be purchased. The Starck House seems to have an almost cult like following partly due to the satirical way it was marketed as it was originally sold in 1993-1994 through a dedicated catalogue for 4900 French Francs by a French mail order company. Starck wanted to make cool, spacious houses available to people who, because of financial necessity, buy “...a house that costs $100, 000 that looks like bullshit (p-39 Philippe Starck -Starck Speaks, Politics, Pleasure and Play in The New Architectural Pragmatism: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader, 2007). He thought that it was “...the best architecture I ever made, definitely the most advanced. It doesn’t look like something by Jean Nouvel or Zaha Hadid - it looks a little classic for the most advanced prototype of the modern house” (op cit).