Interior Design Quotes - Page 7

• Deep downy upholstery is absolutely what I've always been about.

  Albert Hadley

  Design, Upholstery

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• We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.

  Albert Hadley

  Strong, Talking, Design

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• I had learnt from going to Houghton that to make a room quiet, to make it harmonious, you never wanted to have only one 'mouvement' thng like the Savonnerie rug that would stand out. You must have 'mouvement' everywhere.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Design, Rooms, Quiet

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• I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant it like a crowded shoe. If you have a strong layout, you can let the plants seed themselves all over the place. Haphazard, unexpected... I like to be surprised by a garden.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Strong, Garden, Shoes

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• In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Design, Different, Realizing

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• How lucky I've been to live in such beautiful places and able to make them as I dreamed. I've been lucky. I've adored my houses more than my friends (or husbands).

  Nancy Lancaster

  Beautiful, Husband, House

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• Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.

  Van Day Truex

  Inspiration, Museums, Ideas

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• I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Art, Mean, Giving

  Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc

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• I've always loved interior design.

  Genie Francis

  Design, Interiors

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• I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Careers, Interesting

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• I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

  Eric Burdon

  Art, College, Years

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• I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large - Daily Express

  Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

  Hate, Design, Desire

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• If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Destiny, Thinking, Doors

  Ettore Sottsass, Barbara Radice (1988). “Design metaphors”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Exercise, Design, Furniture

  Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never been done before. Quite often it is done without authority, without knowledge, and without a background in taste. They need to be educated about the past, and they need a richer vocabulary.

  Albert Hadley

  Past, Vocabulary, Design

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