Philippe Starck has become a notable name in the architecture and design world. With a career spanning more than 50 years, this French creative genius has invented chairs, sold millions of copies of a sculptural orange juicer, designed boutique hotels, bicycles, yachts and even space stations.

According to a report by idealista/news, he has lived in several places, but it was high up in the Sintra mountains, in Portugal, that he found the perfect refuge to get “away from it all”.

"I started living in the woods near Paris. Then I started living on planes. Then, in the mud of Venice. Then we settled in Formentera, until Formentera stopped being Formentera. And now we live high up in the Sintra mountain range, in Portugal, far from everything", reveals Starck in a recent interview with El País.

Starck's passion for Portugal is not new. He started out on vacation in Comporta, lived in Cascais and a few years ago he was already talking about the charms of the Portuguese people and Sintra. “In Portugal people are more human. It's a place in the world where people are proud, smart, beautiful, honest, hardworking. We can find a beauty that no longer exists,” he said in another television interview.

“I am completely in love with Sintra. Sintra is like a child's dream, like a madman's dream, like a poem, like a painting, it's a work of art. And I spend my days cycling or walking in the eucalyptus forest of Sintra, and it is, without a doubt, where the most beautiful houses in the world are, and inside them there is an elegant fantasy that no longer exists”, he added.