In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points. — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age. — William Morris Copy Share Image
Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two! — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order. — William Morris Copy Share Image
A lot of people worry about the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings. I feel it's more a matter of people… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
The one thing I never get involved with is selecting art or pictures for a client. This is a very personal thing.… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
How obvious it is that color has its various connotations-hue, value, and intensity - and without the basic understanding of these three… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
“we cannot escape showing who we are. What we write and how we express it gives away as much information as our… — Susan Feehan Copy Share Image
A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
It is general knowledge for anyone interested in color that subdued value, intensity and hue make for quieter, less adventuresome interiors. Stronger… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
“Domestic interior design is a fraught affair. It makes me hanker for the mild and soothing and tasteless red velvet interiors in… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I really, really like interior design. I grew up in a really old house outside of Philly that was built in 1821.… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large -… — Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen Copy Share Image
Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic. — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
Professionals use 'Strictly' as a relaunch of flagging careers. In my year Kara Tointon won. She had been talking about giving up… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just… — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
When I began designing machines I also began to think that these objects, which sit next to each other and around people,… — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
A lot of my stuff just wasn't saleable. I still don't do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
To create an atmosphere dedicated to health..to present charming interiors that will attract maternity patients...to develop distinctive decoration and furnishings that can… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
We must occasionally remind ourselves of our brief visit on this planet. Shouldn't we try to express ourselves clearly, make a personal… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
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… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“Luxury residential and hotel interior design agency in London, We deliver precision, beauty and understated luxurious to modern residential projects for private… — comelitearch Copy Share Image
You don't have to know anything about a subject as long as you use common sense and imagination, plus enthusiasm! I use… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
I started this career because I loved doing houses. I'd done three of my own and I couldn't keep on moving my… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“Why use an Interior Designer? Interior design is the art of enhancing interiors of home, hotel, and restaurant. CAS specializes in the… — comelitearch Copy Share Image
I don't believe anything can do as much for a room as a glowing fire in an attractive fireplace. Men and dogs… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
For me, I've always loved style, because I've always loved dressing different and being unique and maybe wearing stuff no one else… — Brandi Cyrus Copy Share Image
If I wasn't acting, I think I would like to do interior design. Yeah, because you know, with the Balinese background, and… — Melissa George Copy Share Image
