About EASTWEST Studios

Photo: Jean-Baptiste Mondino

Philippe Starck defines iconic in the truest sense of the word. He has produced some of the most recognizable designs of our era. In 1988, Starck was commissioned by famed nightclub impresario Ian Schrager to refit the Royalton Hotel. It was a design moment that has since changed the hotel industry. This continued in New York at the Paramount hotel and the Hudson hotel, and spread to Miami with the opening of the Delano Hotel in South Beach, to Los Angeles with the Mondrian Hotel, to London with both the St. Martins Lane hotel and the Sanderson hotel, to San Francisco and the Clift hotel, and more recently the SLS Hotel in Los Angeles.

After designing everything from hotels, restaurants, clubs, furniture, toothbrushes and rockets, Starck jumped at the opportunity to take on a Hollywood landmark, his first music project. “Music is so, so important to me,” says Starck, “Music is my life.” Starck describes his design as “a boiling bucket of culture, and you cannot even define the style. There is no style, just the addition of surprises, of strange light, of perspective, which brings you into a sort of Alice in Wonderland where you lose gravity and you can create music.”