LUX by Starck with IPI ❧

Cocktail parties, picnics, cruises, drinks, private art viewings… A plate becomes the ultimate encumbrance when your other hand is fully occupied holding a glass. You end up hopping around as you make a valiant attempt to greet people, hold your bag or rummage in your pockets.

On the basis of this universal truth, the designer Philippe Starck has come up with a range of disposable tableware, the structural concepts of which, from stackable shapes to single use, have been carefully analysed from a production, distribution and usage point of view before being subjected to the scrutiny of today’s market. The result is a “hands-free kit”.

Thanks to its ingenious and fun design based on a small spike on which you can secure a glass, a champagne flute, a cup or a bowl, the contemporary and innovative shapes of Lux by Starck with Ipi enhance any social occasion, whether a private gathering or a society event.

The flexible and adaptable Lux by Starck with Ipi collection offers a whole range of options in terms of colours and usage, with a “Meal, Drinks, Buffet and Tea-Coffee-Chocolate Concept”, and intelligently and cheekily adapts to any situation.

Freedom of movement + Contemporary = Lux by Starck with Ipi.



IPI, the Producer

Established in 1985, and part of the Onixa industrial group, a specialist in niche companies, since 1996, internationalplasticindustrie (Ipi) has grown to become one of Europe’s leading players in disposable tableware for institutions, hotels, advertising promotion, the catering trade, food service and rail, sea and air catering.

Ipi is an Air France supplier for meal trays and in-flight items. Counting companies such as Thalys, Accor, Ricard and some major names in mass distribution among its main customers, Ipi is an international company renowned for its cutting edge technology and the high quality, hygiene and traceability of its products. Ipi also places great emphasis on design and demonstrates true commitment to innovation.

A pure product of its expertise in thermoplastics, the Lux by Starck with Ipi collection marks the start of a new era for the company: Ipi is becoming a specialist manufacturer of single-use tableware. This status(1) was required to protect the international production and marketing of this signed product, in particular from copies and counterfeits. And when this producer is an industrial leader in its sector, the event is worthy of note. In particular, since designers’ increasing interest in new plastics technologies augurs a near future brimming with ideas and successful creations destined for mass production.
Ipi: a design producer is born.

(1) In France, the legal status of design producer now guarantees protection of a company’s industrial property rights – rights to drawings, models and royalties – allowing it to initiate and develop innovative and long-term design projects.