We’ve collected 20 of our favorite thoughtful quotes and pieces of advice from some of the most influential architects and designers.
“There are two things that make a room timeless; a sense of history and a piece of the future.”
– Charlotte Moss
Underneath all I design lies the solid belief that beauty is a positive force.
– Barbara Barry
“Have nothing in your home which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
– William Morris
Designers and people in general are too attracted by ‘new’, but nothing ages more quickly than ‘newness’. All my objects reflect a marriage between past and present.
– Marcel Wanders
“A designer has a duty to create timeless design. To be timeless you have to think really far into the future, not next year, not in two years but in 20 years minimum.”
– Philippe Starck
Serious is a word that must be entirely avoided when it comes to decoration.
– Kathryn M. Ireland
“I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.”
– Dorothy Draper
I like an interior that defies labeling. I don’t really want someone to walk into a room and know that I did it.
– Bunny Williams
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
– Fran Gehry
Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
“Chairs are uniquely the best expression of design. They encompass more of the challenges by which I live and work than any other single component of furniture.”
– Vladimir Kagan
Pick what you like because living with a trend that is not you is never a good choice.
– Thomas Pheasant
“Nothing is passé if you really love it.”
– Rose Tarlow
Real comfort, visual and physical, is vital to every room.
– Mark Hampton
“The home should be the treasure chest of living.”
– Le Corbusier
If you love something it will work. That’s the only real rule.
– Bunny Williams
“Be faithful to your own taste, because nothing you really like is ever out of style.”
– Billy Baldwin
The details are not the details. They make the design.
– Charles Eames
“The best rooms have something to say about the people who live in them.”
– David Hicks
Luxury must be comfortable otherwise it is not luxury.
– Coco Chanel
Leave a Reply