Philippe Starck designs "avant-garde" power dock for Bentley's first hybrid car
French designer Philippe Starck has teamed up with luxury car brand Bentley to create a smart power dock for the manufacturer's new Bentayga Hybrid model.
Revealed ahead of this year's Geneva Motor Show, which takes place from 8 to 18 March, the Starck Power Dock works alongside the Bentayga Hybrid ? Bentley's first hybrid car, which combines an electric motor with a petrol engine.
With many major car companies, including Volvo, Jaguar Land Rover and BMW, already in the process of launching all-electric car ranges, the Bentayga Hybrid is Bentley's first move into sustainable vehicle solutions.
For the occasion, the company enlisted the help of Starck ? a Bentley owner himself ? to design the car's power dock.
Although creating a high-tech device, the French designer wanted the product to appear as a "modern art piece".
He combined an aluminium domed surface with a narrow rounded display screen made bordered by resin-coated linen.
"As always with my designs, I wanted the maximum of intelligence with the minimum of materiality," he said.
"I wanted it to be a modern art piece: durable, real and avant-garde high tech," he said. "[But] it was also important for me that the unit was as sustainable as possible."
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The device also which works in tandem with a smartphone app...
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