Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“A man must have a less than ordinary share of sense that would furnish such plain and common rooms with silver-footed couches… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds. — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration. — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me. — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management. — Van Day Truex 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
...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
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
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 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
“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
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
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
I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
Home furniture and interior design. Also consider the kinds of ornamental plants that will be transplanted into the planters — Cedric P Loiselle Copy Share Image
Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful,… — Sister Parish Copy Share Image
Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale. — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details,… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
In fashion, my inspiration comes from pop culture - the 1960s and the following years. Whereas in interior design, my influences are… — Patrick Cox Copy Share Image
All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like… — Andree Putman Copy Share Image
Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall. — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing. — Chris Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I love fashion and I love interior design. There are times when the two worlds collide but more often than not, they… — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
I've always been very into interior design, and I can't stand to have anything in my apartment that I don't aesthetically love. — Betsey Johnson Copy Share Image
We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses. — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
I never set out to do interior design; I just do what I do, and some people come along and want me… — John Rocha Copy Share Image
The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'll go back into medicine. As much as I love it and went to school for it, my… — Tayshia Adams Copy Share Image
For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another — Andree Putman Copy Share Image
I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place. — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
“Look. Folks. It's simple. If you have poor taste in decorating, don't go nuts in the entryway. Wait until your guests are… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful… — Deborra-Lee Furness Copy Share Image
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
