Designer's high-concept condos may be too hip for Boston

The Boston Globe reports:

Philippe Starck, the international design superstar who once fashioned a baby bottle resembling a perfume dispenser for Target, has struck gold by selling condominiums in Manhattan and Miami Beach. His ''Downtown" project in the former headquarters of JP Morgan on Wall Street, featuring a bowling alley, 24-seat screening room, and rooftop reflecting pool, sold more than half its 326 units within three weeks of hitting the market in 2004. In Miami Beach, all 289 condos at his sleek, ultramodern Icon South Beach tower, which opened that same year, sold out during construction.

But so far, Boston isn't buying what Starck is selling.

High end condos aren't for every town.